Badlands National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Location:	South Dakota, USA
Nearest city:	Rapid City, SD
Coordinates:	43° 45′0″N, 101° 57′0″W
Area:	242,755.94 acres   (232,822.24 federal) 982.40 km²
Established:	January 29, 1939
Visitation:	936,030 (in 2004)
Governing body:	National Park Service

Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, preserves 242,756 acres (982 km²)^[1] of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. The World Conservation Union or International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ... Yosemite National Park in the United States. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... Image File history File links US_Locator_Blank. ... State nickname: The Mount Rushmore State Official languages English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Governor Mike Rounds (R) Senators Tim Johnson (D) John Thune (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 17th 199,905 km² 1. ... Rapid City is a city located in Pennington County, South Dakota. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States federal agency that manages all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations. ... State nickname: The Mount Rushmore State Official languages English Capital Pierre Largest city Sioux Falls Governor Mike Rounds (R) Senators Tim Johnson (D) John Thune (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 17th 199,905 km² 1. ... Severe soil erosion in a wheat field near Washington State University, USA. Erosion is the displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock, and so forth) by the agents of wind, water, ice, movement in response to gravity, or living organisms (in the case of bioerosion). ... Butte near Sedona, Arizona In the United States and Canada, a butte is an isolated hill with steep sides and a small flat top. ... A grassy swamp. ... Prairie refers to an area of land in North America of low topographic relief that principally supports grasses and herbs, with few trees, and is generally of a mesic (moderate or temperate) climate. ...

Typical badlands topography

The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,250 acres (259 km²) of the park as a designated wilderness area^[2] and is the site of the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America^[3]. Download high resolution version (909x614, 146 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Download high resolution version (909x614, 146 KB) This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... The Badlands Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. ... Broadly, a wilderness area is a region where the land is left in a state where human modifications are minimal; that is, as a wilderness. ... Binomial name Mustela nigripes (Audubon & Bachman, 1851) The Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) is a small carnivorous North American mammal closely related to the Steppe Polecat of Russia, and a member of the diverse family Mustelidae which also includes weasels, mink, polecats, martens, otters, and badgers. ... The American bison numbered as few as 750 in 1890 due to extreme overhunting. ... Orders Subclass Multituberculata (extinct) Plagiaulacida Cimolodonta Subclass Palaeoryctoides (extinct) Subclass Triconodonta (extinct) Subclass Eutheria (includes extinct ancestors)/Placentalia (excludes extinct ancestors) Afrosoricida Artiodactyla Carnivora Cetacea Chiroptera Cimolesta (extinct) Creodonta (extinct) Condylarthra (extinct) Dermoptera Desmostylia (extinct) Embrithopoda (extinct) Hyracoidea Insectivora Lagomorpha Litopterna (extinct) Macroscelidea Mesonychia (extinct) Notoungulata (extinct) Perissodactyla Pholidota Plesiadapiformes... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the...

The Stronghold Unit is co-managed with the Oglala Sioux tribe and includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances^[4] and a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range^[5]. Oglala can refer to the following: Oglala is a town located in Shannon County, South Dakota. ... A Sioux in traditional dress including war bonnet, circa 1908. ... The Ghost Dance by the Ogalala Lakota at Pine Ridge The Ghost Dance, also known as the Ghost Dance of 1890, as noted in historical accounts, is a millennialistic spiritual movement among Native Americans that began toward the end of 1888 and reached its peak just before the Wounded Knee... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aviation branch of the United States armed forces. ...

Over 11,000 years of human history in the park pales in comparison to the ages-old paleontological resources also found there. Badlands National Park contains the world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old. Scientists can study the evolution of mammal species such as the horse, sheep, rhinoceros and pig in the Badlands formations. A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... The Oligocene epoch is a geologic period of time that extends from about 34 million to 23 million years before the present. ... The word epoch can mean either an interval of time, or a particular point in time used as a reference point. ... A fossil Ammonite Fossils are the mineralized remains of animals or plants or other traces such as footprints. ... A phylogenetic tree of all living things, based on rRNA gene data, showing the separation of the three domains, bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes, as described initially by Carl Woese. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The Horse (Equus caballus) is a sizeable ungulate mammal, one of the seven modern species of the genus Equus. ... Species See text A Sheep is a mammal, one of several woolly ruminant quadrupeds in the genus Ovis. ... Genera Ceratotherium Dicerorhinus Diceros Rhinoceros Coelodonta (extinct) Elasmotherium (extinct) A rhinoceros (commonly called a rhino for short) is any of five surviving species of odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae. ... Species Sus barbatus Sus bucculentus Sus cebifrons Sus celebensis Sus domesticus Sus heureni Sus philippensis Sus salvanius Sus scrofa Sus timoriensis Sus verrucosus Pigs are ungulates native to Eurasia collectively grouped under the genus Sus within the Suidae family. ...

Admininstrative history

Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. It was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978.^[6] The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... January 25 is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The parks of the United States National Park system are one type of protected area in the United States and are operated by the National Park Service. ... November 10 is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 51 days remaining. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction. ...

Badlands National Park, showing the eroded buttes and the vast prairie in the background.

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1932x2580, 3012 KB) Badlands National Park 07/26/2005 taken by Colin Faulkingham, I am gifting it to the public domain. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1932x2580, 3012 KB) Badlands National Park 07/26/2005 taken by Colin Faulkingham, I am gifting it to the public domain. ...

See also

• Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Badlands in Theodore Roosevelt National Park Established in 1978, Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a United States National Park comprising two geographically separated areas of badlands in western North Dakota. ...

References

1. ^  Acreage of the Park. Badlands National Park. URL accessed on September 26, 2005.
2. ^  Ibid.
3. ^  Critical Park Issues - Reintroduction of the Black-Footed Ferret. Badlands National Park. URL accessed on September 26, 2005.
4. ^  Badlands: Human History - American Indians. Badlands National Park. URL accessed on September 26, 2005.
5. ^  Badlands: Gunnery Range History. Badlands National Park. URL accessed on September 26, 2005.
6. ^  Legislative History. Badlands National Park. URL accessed on September 26, 2005.

• The National Parks: Index 2001–2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.

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