Badlands National Park…”Moon-scape on Earth”
As we entered the Badlands yesterday and drove through them
again today, we had a sense of just how difficult it must be for any kind of
life to exist. And yet millions of years
ago, prehistoric beasts roamed here. For
12000 years the native people survived here.
Homesteaders struggled to hack a living, and many did not succeed. When they tilled the land, the fierce winds
blew the soil and the seeds away. On
good years the grasshoppers devoured their crops. And always present to remind them of the
harshness, the ever present deep ravines and ragged pinnacles…”moon-scape on
earth”.
As you look around the Badlands what is written in the Park
Brochure rings true. “You may never walk
on the moon, but you can certainly set foot on a terrain similar to it.” Hopefully our pictures can tell part of that
story.
Distance Traveled = 123 km.
Wildlife Sightings = Common Nighthawk, Flicker, Turkey Vulture,
Meadowlark, Mountain Bluebird, Grackle, Robin, Big Horn Sheep, Black-tailed
Prairie Dogs, Pronghorn.
Moonscape
Yellow Mounds
Prairie Homestead...an original sod house 1909
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