Hoodoo In Badlands National Park South Dakota by Christiane Schulze

Copyright: Christiane Schulze The Badlands National Park is located in southwest South Dakota. It consists of a type of erosion landscape known as badlands, which seemed to be unsuitable for agriculture, hence the name badlands. In addition to this erosional landscape, the largest protected grass prairie is also part of the national park. Two units of the national park, the Stronghold Unit and the Palmer Creek Unit, are located within the Pine Ridge Reservation]. In 2012, the conditions were created for the two southern areas to be managed in future as a National Tribal Park in cooperation between the National Park Service and the Oglala Lakota. For this purpose, Sioux Indians are preferably trained and employed as rangers and park scientists. The area was called Makȟóšiča in Lakota since the 1750s. Others called the area Paha Ska, in German "White Hills". Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča[) is an American national park located in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km2)[ of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in the United States. The National Park Service manages the park, with the South Unit being co-managed with the Oglala Lakota tribe. The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,144 acres (100.2 sq mi; 259.6 km2) of the park as a designated wilderness area, and is one site where the black-footed ferret,