Overlooking Sheep Mountain Table
by Greni Graph
Title
Overlooking Sheep Mountain Table
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Greni Graph
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Photograph - Photography
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Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota preserves 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States. The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres of the park as a designated wilderness area and is the site of the reintroduction of the black-footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America. The Stronghold Unit is co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe and includes sites of 1890s Ghost Dances, a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range, and Red Shirt Table, the park's highest point at 3,340 feet. Authorized as Badlands National Monument on March 4, 1929, it was not established until January 25, 1939. It was redesignated a national park on November 10, 1978. Under the Mission 66 plan, the Ben Reifel Visitor Center was constructed for the monument in 1957�58. The park also administers the nearby Minuteman Missile National Historic Site. Sheep Mountain is one of many tables in the White River Badlands; others include Cuny Table, Red Shirt Table, and Heck Table. #201005225800
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May 11th, 2013
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