IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The National Park Service has shelved a blistering internal report that details a "decade of dysfunction" as the agency allowed dozens of illegal construction projects to cause significant damage to an ancient burial ground in Iowa that tribes consider sacred.

Titled "Serious Mismanagement Report," the document blasts the park service's stewardship of the Effigy Mounds National Monument and says the case should serve as a wakeup call for employees at all levels.

Last week, NPS deputy regional director Patricia Trap told someone who requested a copy of the report that it didn't exist.

She later told The Associated Press that the report exists but hadn't been "agency-approved." She says it will be replaced by another review that's looking at the root causes of problems as well as what went right during the scandal.

 

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