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Badlands
National Park
History:
The Badlands have supported humans for more than 11,000 years. The earliest people to come into the Badlands were ancient mammoth hunters. ...
The National Park:
The Badlands was known as the Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929. Eventually, on November 10, 1978, it was renamed as Badlands National Park is located in South Dakota. The park consists of nearly 244,000 acres of very eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires that are blended with the largest, protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. ... The Badlands National Park also contains the worlds richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating twenty-three to thirty-five million years old. The name Badlands came from both the Lakotas and the early French fur trappers. ... At the bottom of the sea located in the Badlands there is a grayish-black sedimentary rock called the Pierre shale. ... Within the park, the fossilized remains of a wide variety of animals have been found.
Approximate Word count = 799
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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