Article: Badlands National Park ? South Dakota
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Badlands National Park ? South Dakota
Badlands National Park in South Dakota consists of 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires. Over 11,000 years of human history can be found within the sod layers while 30-65 million-year-old fossils erode out of the rocks. Known locally to the Lakota Sioux as "mako sica" the area was first called "badlands" by early French trappers due to the difficulty of travel and the lack of water.
Badlands Trivia
1. The Badlands Wilderness Area includes 2 management units and covers 64,000 acres in the northern portion of the park.
2. The 133,000-acre South Unit of the park is located within Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and managed in cooperation with the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
3. Established as Badlands National Monument i...
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