EPPS, La. (AP) — A new nonprofit organization has been formed to support the scientific and educational aspects of the Poverty Point State Historic Site.

Gary Stringer, president of the nonprofit and professor emeritus of geology at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, tells The News-Star (http://tnsne.ws/1aVvaLx ) the organization, Advocates for Poverty Point, was developed as an outgrowth of the nomination of Poverty Point for the World Heritage List.