Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

In fall 2023, eighteen Georgia State University paleontology students worked with the National Park Service to write Fossil Fact Sheets for six parks in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia — parks known for history or scenery, not fossils, but full of Paleozoic rock.

In the 1970s and early 1980s, women with disabilities who joined the National Park Service faced others’ misconceptions more than any limit of their own — and changed what a park ranger could look like.