Little Missouri Badlands

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About North Dakota:

North Dakota is located in the US regions known as the Upper Midwest and the Great Plains. The state shares the Red River with Minnesota to the east, South Dakota is to the south, Montana is to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are north. It sits essentially, in the middle of North America, and a stone marker in Rugby, identifies it as being the "Geographic Center of the North American Continent".

The western half of the state consists of the hilly Great Plains, and the northern part of the Badlands to the west of the Missouri River. The central region of the state is divided into the Drift Prairie and the Missouri Plateau. This area is covered in lakes, slough, and rolling hills. The eastern part of the state consists of the flat Red River Valley, the bottom of glacial Lake Agassiz.

North Dakota is the 19th largest state by area in the US and is the 3rd least populous. North Dakota was carved out of the northern half of the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 39th state on November 2, 1889. The state capital is Bismarck and the largest city is Fargo. Agriculture has long dominated the economy and culture of North Dakota.

Represented on this Travel Bug:

Little Missouri Badlands - A badlands is a type of arid terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water. Canyons, ravines, gullies, hoodoos and other such geological forms are common in badlands. They are often difficult to navigate by foot. Badlands often have a spectacular color display that alternates from dark black coal stria to bright clays to red scoria. The best places to see the badlands in North Dakota are both units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the Little Missouri National Grasslands.

American plains bison - The American plains bison (B. bison bison), is one of two living species of large even-toed ungulates within the subfamily Bovinae, the other is the American wood bison (B. bison athabascae). The American bison is the largest terrestrial mammal in North America. Bison are nomadic grazers and travel in herds, except for the non-dominant bulls, which travel alone or in small groups during most of the year. American bison are known for living in the Great Plains. Both species were hunted close to extinction during the 19th and 20th centuries but have since rebounded. The American Plains bison is no longer listed as endangered, but the Wood Bison is on the endangered species list in Canada.

Little Missouri Badlands has been cached in:
updated 10-Jul-10