Badlands National Park

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S.D. Tribe Poised To Take Back Part Of Badlands

May 29, 2012, 9:40 am

Federal officials are about to join hands with a tribe in South Dakota in a proposal to make part of the Badlands National Park the first ever tribally-run national park in the country. The agreement comes after years of sometimes bitter land disputes over the south unit of the ...

Badlands National Park to Host Ferret Festival

September 19, 2011, 9:19 am

Learn more about the black-footed ferrets at Badlands National Park's Ferret Festival this weekend. The park will commemorate the rediscovery of black-footed ferrets in the wild with a Ferret Festival from September 24-26, 2011. Activities will include a prairie puppet show, a live ferret with informal talks, scientific lectures, a ...

Oh, Ranger! Guide to the Black Hills, Badlands & Mount Rushmore

September 2, 2011, 9:12 am

Our little, green Oh, Ranger! guide to the Black Hills, Badlands & Mount Rushmore highlights many of the stunning sites and adventures that await in Western South Dakota. The region is home to one of most famous monuments in the country. Mount Rushmore depicts four prominent Presidents in America’s history. ...

Oh, Ranger! Story Tour: Update #2

August 6, 2010, 11:15 am

Our team of Oh, Ranger! Story Tour ambassadors is still on the road, collecting stories about our national parks. I spoke to our lead ambassador, Abe, the other day to get the inside scoop on the team’s latest adventures. Over the past few weeks, they were collecting stories at Yosemite ...

Follow the herds :Travelers can watch beasts roam in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Kansas

November 30, 2009, 7:55 am

It was sunrise on a bitterly cold September morning, but gray clouds obscured the sun. Snow blanketed the ground and the road was a sheet of ice. I struggled to keep the rental car on the park road.Suddenly, the road was blocked. I was surrounded by buffaloes. They were ...

Discover American Indian Heritage at Badlands National Park

November 13, 2009, 8:06 am

The stunning panorama of Badlands National Park rests just an hour east of Rapid City, South Dakota.This 244,000-acre landscape is both barren and beautiful. Wind and rain erosion have created an eerie moonscape of deep gorges and jagged sawtooth ridges with rock layers painted in subtle hues of sand, ...

Badlands National Park superintendent to retire

October 19, 2009, 9:03 am

Paige Baker, superintendent at Badlands National Park, announced he is retiring from the National Park Service at the end of the year. Baker has served at the park for five years. While at the park, he North Dakota-native was instrumental in developing the South Unit General Management Plan, organized a Friends Group for Badlands ...

Badlands National Park gets money for road work

October 1, 2009, 6:17 am

National Park is getting money from the federal stimulus measure to improve the main road through the park in western South Dakota.Park officials report that they are receiving $11.2 million to rehabilitate Loop Road 240. The work will start now and is expected to be completed in November 2010.The ...

Prairie dogs fighting plague

July 15, 2009, 8:35 am

Sylvatric plague has been found in a colony of prairie dogs in Badlands National Park, and officials will continue a program began last year to dust colonies with insecticide to halt the spread of the disease.While not unexpected, it's the first time plague has been found in the park. ...

Ignoring parks a natural mistake

July 13, 2009, 7:27 am

"Art is nothing as to nature," Bernard Pomerance wrote in his play, "The Elephant Man." A dozen years since I last saw it -- a dark, circuslike production at the Theatre Building on Belmont Avenue -- but the line must have tucked itself away in a fold in the ...

Elk Hunting in the Badlands

July 9, 2009, 8:57 am

In 1985, 47 elk were released in the southern section of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota. Today, that herd numbers some 900 animals, far more than the park can sustain. The herd needs to be reduced to about 300 in order to bring it into balance ...

Wall Drug, founded during Depression, endures

July 1, 2009, 2:32 pm

Ted Hustead's family knows a thing or two about running a tourist attraction during tough economic times.Consider Wall Drug, on the north edge of South Dakota's Badlands.Hustead's grandparents, Ted and Dorothy Hustead, bought the store in this small town in 1931 -- during the Great Depression.Business limped along for ...

Lambs in Badlands

June 17, 2009, 8:36 am

On your next visit to Badlands expect to see plenty of lambs around the park. Badlands National Park has already had eleven lambs born this year. These lambs have been born to bighorn sheep that were moved from Taos, New Mexico in 2004. Biologists believe that there will ...

Crews Douse 500 Acre Grass Fire Near Badlands

March 16, 2009, 8:59 am

Crews doused a brush fire near Badlands National Park Sunday after it charred an estimated 500 acres about five miles east of Scenic. It started in the north ditch along Highway 44 and spread quickly to the northeast across private rangeland that's adjacent to Buffalo Gap National Grassland. Firefighters say a ...

Crews Douse 500 Acre Grass Fire Near Badlands

March 16, 2009, 8:46 am

Crews doused a brush fire near Badlands National Park Sunday after it charred an estimated 500 acres about five miles east of Scenic.It started in the north ditch along Highway 44 and spread quickly to the northeast across private rangeland that's adjacent to Buffalo Gap National Grassland.Firefighters say a ...

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