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How a federal monument’s new welcome center in Maine honors Native Americans
How a federal monument’s new welcome center in Maine honors Native Americans
How a federal monument’s new welcome center in Maine honors Native Americans

Published on: 07/21/2025

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A national park employee sweeps the floor in the Tekakapimək Contact Station, Jan. 7, 2025, at the Katahdin Woods and Waters Monument in northern Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

ATOP LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Maine (AP) — The founder of Burt’s Bees envisioned a tribute to Henry David Thoreau when she began buying thousands of acres of logging company land to donate for what would become the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument.

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