JEROME, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — An announcement took place Friday at the Minidoka National Historic Site for new projects to restore and upgrade National Parks locations in southern Idaho over the next couple years.

The Minidoka National Historic Site, Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, as well as Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument received around $15 million from the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund, according to a press release from the National Park Service (NPS).

The Minidoka National Historic Site restoration will help preserve the Block 22 Barracks, Mess Hall and Root Cellar buildings.

“What this project here behind me, in particular, is going to do is to allow the visiting public to understand what life was like for Japanese-Americans wh

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