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Buffalo Gap National Grassland is a National Grassland located primarily in southwestern South Dakota, United States. It is also the second largest National Grassland, after Little Missouri National Grassland in North Dakota. Characteristics of the grasslands include mixed prairie and chalky badlands.
Located on State Hwy 79 between Hermosa and Hot Springs, Buffalo Gap intersects with County Road 656, an “off the beaten path” that travelers can take into the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, Badlands National Park and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation [7] Part of the action of the French book La Brèche aux buffles takes place in Buffalo Gap.
Buffalo Gap, Virginia, an unincorporated community and a mountain pass Buffalo Gap High School , a public high school in Swoope, Virginia named for the nearby gap Buffalo Gap National Grassland , South Dakota
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site; Big Bone Lick State Park; Bird Island Nature Reserve; Black Kettle National Grassland; Bolsa Chica State Beach; Bomoseen State Park; Boone's Lick State Historic Site; Bothe-Napa Valley State Park; Budj Bim National Park; Buffalo Gap National Grassland
Name Photo Location [4] Date formed Area [1] Description Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie: Illinois: 1996: 20,283 acres (82.1 km 2) [5]: The only federally managed prairie east of the Mississippi River, Midewin is in the Central forest-grasslands transition ecoregion and was created when land was transferred to the U.S. Forest Service from the U.S. Army.
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Nancy Hanks Creek is a stream of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland in Jackson County, South Dakota, not far from Kadoka. It has an elevation of 2,103 feet (641 m), and flows into the White River. [1]
The forest is a combination of prairie grasslands and pine forest "islands". Most of the existing forested sections were manmade, planted by hand over the past 75 years. The protein content of the native grasses is among the highest found anywhere in the world and numerous lease options are provided to local ranchers.