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The black-footed ferret and whooping crane are on the endangered species list. [38] The black-footed ferret population inside the Badlands National Park has recovered to a population of approximately 100 individuals. [39] This whooping crane population in the Badlands National Park is considered a non-self-sustaining wild population. [40]
The granite core of the Black Hills rises 7,244 feet (2,208 m) at Black Elk Peak. The 'bull's eye' of this target is called the granite core. The granite of the Black Hills was emplaced by magma generated during the Trans-Hudson orogeny and contains abundant pegmatite. The core of the Black Hills has been dated to 1.8 billion years. Other ...
In the south, east of the Black Hills, lie the South Dakota Badlands. The Black Hills are in the southwestern part of South Dakota and extend into Wyoming. This range of low mountains covers 6,000 sq. miles (15,500 km 2 .) with mountains that rise from 2,000 to 4,000 feet (600 to 1,200 m) above their bases.
Official South Dakota Highway Map. State of South Dakota. 2007. A Tourist Guide of the Black Hills (South Dakota Department of Environment & Natural Resources) South Dakota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, ME: DeLorme. 1997. ISBN 0-89933-239-0.
Badlands (National park) The Mammoth Site; Needles; Spearfish Canyon; Mountains; Black Hills; Bear Butte (National Historic Landmark) Black Elk Peak; Caves; Wind Cave (National park) Jewel Cave (National monument) Forests and wildernesses; Custer ; Black Hills (National Forest) Black Elk ; Buffalo Gap (National Grassland) Lakes; Sylvan; Pactola ...
After a series of devastating wildfires in 1893, U.S. President Grover Cleveland created the Black Hills Forest Reserve on February 22, 1897. [5] U.S. President William McKinley issued a presidential proclamation on September 19, 1898, appending the Black Hills Forest Reserve geographic boundaries while acknowledging the forest preservation decrees established by the Timber Culture Act and ...
The Black Hills were uplifted in the early Cenozoic, followed by long-running periods of erosion, sediment deposition and volcanic ash fall, forming the Badlands and storing marine and mammal fossils. Much of the state's landscape was reworked during several phases of glaciation in the Pleistocene. [1]
The word badlands is a calque from the Canadian French phrase les mauvaises terres, as the early French fur traders called the White River badlands les mauvaises terres à traverser or 'bad lands to traverse', perhaps influenced by the Lakota people who moved there in the late 1700s and who referred to the terrain as mako sica, meaning 'bad ...