This is one of those great National Parks cards. Badlands National Park is located in south west South Dakota. It protects almost 1000 square kilometres of land that consists of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles and undisturbed mixed grass prairie. The National Park Service and the Oglala Lakota Tribe co-managed the park.
The park was established as a national monument on 25 January 1939, and became a national park on 10 November 1978. The American movies, Dances with Wolves and Thunderheart were partially filmed here.
The park have many animals including badgers, bighorn sheep, bison, black-billed magpie, black-footed ferrets, black-tailed prairie dogs, bobcats, coyote, elk, mule deer, pronghorn antelope, prairie rattlesnakes, porcupine, whooping cranes, swift fox, and white-tailed deer. Bison were re-introduced to the park in 1963. Fifty bison from Theodore Roosevelt National park were released. Today there are over 1200 bison in the park. The whooping crane and black-footed ferret are considered endangered species. The whooping crane in the park are considered non-self-sustaining, while the black-footed ferret population sits around 100.
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