| Badlands National Park in South Dakota
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| | layers hold the fossilized remains of
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| consists of 244,000 acres of sharply
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| | early mammals such as three-toed horses,
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| eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires. Over
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| | housecat sized deer, rhinoceros,
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| 11,000 years of human history can be
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| | saber-toothed cats, camels, and giant
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| found within the sod layers while 30-65
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| | pigs.
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| million-year-old fossils erode out of the
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| | 5. Badlands National Park has two
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| rocks. Known locally to the Lakota Sioux
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| | International Sister Parks: Vashlovani
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| as "mako sica" the area was first called
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| | National Park in the country of Georgia
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| "badlands" by early French trappers due
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| | and Hortobagy National Park in Hungary.
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| to the difficulty of travel and the lack
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| | Badlands Attractions
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| of water.
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| | 1. See paleontology in action at the "Pig
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| Badlands Trivia
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| | Dig" as park staff and South Dakota
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| 1. The Badlands Wilderness Area includes
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| | School of Mines and Technology students
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| 2 management units and covers 64,000
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| | work during the summer. Visitors to the
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| acres in the northern portion of the
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| | Conata Picnic Area can watch
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| park.
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| | paleontologists removing 33 million
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| 2. The 133,000-acre South Unit of the
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| | year-old fossils that were trapped in an
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| park is located within Pine Ridge Indian
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| | ancient watering hole.
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| Reservation and managed in cooperation
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| | 2. Enjoy spectacular scenery,
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| with the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
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| | opportunities for wildlife viewing,
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| 3. Established as Badlands National
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| | wayside exhibits, and trails along
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| Monument in 1939, the area was
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| | Badlands Loop Road.
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| redesignated a "National Park" in 1978.
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| | 3. Take a backcountry hike in the
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| 4. Badlands National Park contains rich
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| | Badlands Wilderness to explore the
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| Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating from
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| | prairie and rock formations.
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| 23 to 35 million years ago. The rock
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