Drove to North TRNP and learned a lot! The lands that are now the TRNP and the National Prarie Reserve were privately owned until the Dust Bowl. Then the settlers who laided claim to them abandoned them and the government had to figure out how to manage the lands. It was Roosevelts awareness of the damage that was being done tby overgrazing by cattle farmers, the dilling off of the buffalo and development of the badlands that influenced the later establishment of these as managed lands. The parks manage the buttes that were carved into the land, similar to the Grand Canyon but not as deep. Lots of cool formations with beautiful and some erie forms. Beautiful drive but long.
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