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The badlands landscape of Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Brown and beige badlands topography under a cloudy sky at Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota

Named in honor of the 26th president of the United States, this national park in North Dakota consists of three park units (North, South, Elkhorn Ranch) and covers over 70,000 acres rich in wildflower species, rugged badlands topography, and wildlife (pronghorn antelope, bison, wild horses, deer)..

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Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Memo Prompts Concerns That National Park Superintendents Are Being Muzzled Regarding Resource Threats

A memo that acting National Park Service Director David Vela sent out recently has raised concerns that park officials in the field will be muzzled when it comes to expressing concerns about energy and infrastructure development on lands adjacent to their parks.
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Annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival Coming To Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Theodore Roosevelt National Park and the town of historic Medora, North Dakota, are hosting the sixth annual Dakota Nights Astronomy Festival this Friday through Sunday. You can join park rangers, astronomers, and space enthusiasts of all types to celebrate North Dakota’s night skies.

Traveler Special Report: Mixing Energy Development And National Parks

While the U.S. Bureau of Land Management recently deferred the auction of oil and gas leases near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Colorado, the issue of energy development is not dead there, nor in many other areas of the National Park System. Contributor John Miles takes a look at the state of oil and gas exploration in the park system in this article.

Celebrating The CCC In The National Parks

“National Parks of the Country Will Ring with Sound of Conservation Workers.” So read a headline in the May 20, 1933, edition of the Happy Days newspaper, the official publication of the newly formed Civilian Conservation Corps. And it was true: Established in March of that year, the corps became the most popular and enduring of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal “make-work” programs.

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