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Tours
& Travels - U. S. A - Badlands National Park |
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: South Dakota, USA |
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Badlands
National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United
States preserves 244,000 acres of sharply eroded
buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the
largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United
States.
The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres
(25,958 ha) of the park as a designated wilderness
area and is the site of the reintroduction of
the black-footed ferret, the most endangered
land mammal in North America. |
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The
Stronghold Unit is co-managed with the Oglala
Lakota tribe and includes sites of 1890s Ghost
Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb
and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table the park's
highest point at 3,340 feet (1,020 m).
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