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The Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument is a national monument in the western United States, protecting the Missouri Breaks of north central Montana.Managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), it is a series of badland areas characterized by rock outcroppings, steep bluffs, and grassy plains; a topography referred to as "The Breaks" (as the land appears to "break away" to the river).
The southern section is located at . Badlands in Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness. The wilderness protects from development the wildest sections of the National Park, an area described as badlands where erosional forces have carved steep cliffs into the relatively flat prairie.
The Little Missouri River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 560 miles (900 km) long, in the northern Great Plains of the United States. [4] Rising in northeastern Wyoming , in western Crook County about 15 miles (24 km) west of Devils Tower , [ 7 ] it flows northeastward, across a corner of southeastern Montana , and into South Dakota .
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 ...
Little Missouri State Park is a public recreation area of over 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) located on the western side of the Little Missouri River, near the river's confluence with Lake Sakakawea, ten miles (16 km) north of Killdeer, North Dakota. Much of the state park consists of badlands terrain that is only
The White River is a Missouri River tributary that flows 580 miles (930 km) [3] through the U.S. states of Nebraska and South Dakota.The name stems from the water's white-gray color, a function of eroded sand, clay, and volcanic ash carried by the river [5] from its source near the Badlands. [6]
Located within the White River drainage, the Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km 2) of the park's North Unit as a designated wilderness area, [5] and is one site where the black-footed ferret, one of the most endangered mammals in the world, was reintroduced to the wild. [6]
Köppen climate types of Missouri. Missouri generally has a humid continental climate with cool, sometimes cold, winters and hot, humid, and wet summers. In the southern part of the state, particularly in the Bootheel, the climate becomes humid subtropical. Located in the interior United States, Missouri often experiences extreme temperatures.