The non-profit, non-government National Trust for Historic Preservation will release a report today saying that only a fraction of America’s two million “cultural resources” are being properly maintained. The Dept. of Agriculture’s Forest Service has the job of preserving these cultural sites. They include civil war battlefields and Native American archeological grounds.

The Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton reports that the Forest Service has never been able to perform a complete audit of the sites. In fact, the agency lacks the organizational capacity to accept volunteers. Read Layton here. MB

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