BGuthrie Photos: SD -- Badlands Natl Park

SD -- Badlands Natl Park:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BAD_650045_20.JPG: BL1043 Evening Glow
2. BAD_650045_27.JPG: BL1041 Sunset Cedar Pass
3. BAD_650045_32.JPG: BL0144 After a Storm
4. BAD_650045_36.JPG: BL1045 Badlands
5. BAD_650045_40.JPG: BL1042 Overlook
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Wikipedia Description: Badlands National Park
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Badlands National Park, in southwest South Dakota, United States preserves 242,756 acres (982 km�) of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires blended with the largest protected mixed grass prairie in the United States.

The Badlands Wilderness protects 64,250 acres (259 km�) 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 and a former United States Air Force bomb and gunnery range.

Over 11,000 years of human history in the park pales in comparison to the ages-old paleontological resources also found there. Badlands National Park contains the world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old. Scientists can study the evolution of mammal species such as the horse, camel, rhinoceros and javelina in the Badlands formations.

Prehistoric History:

Genera Found There:
Alligator (Crocodilian)
Archaeotherium (Entelodont)
Dinictis (Nimravid)
Eporeodon (Oreodont)
Eusmilus (Nimravid)
Hoplophoneus (Nimravid)
Hyaenodon (Creodont)
Hyracodon (Running Rhino)
Ischyromys (Ground Squirrel-like Rodent)
Leptomeryx (Tragulid)
Merycoidodon (Oreodont)
Metamynodon (Aquatic Rhino)
Miniochoerus (Oreodont)
Poebrotherium (Camel)
Subhyracodon (Rhinoceros)

Human history:

American Indians:

For 11,000 years, Native Americans have used this area for their hunting grounds. Long before the Lakota were the little-studied paleo-Indians, followed by the Arikara people. Their descendants live today in North Dakota as a part of the Three Affiliated Tribes. Archaeological records combined with oral traditions indicate that these people camped in secluded valleys where fresh water and game were available year round. Eroding out of the stream banks today are the roc ...More...
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1965 photos: From 1963 to 1966, our family lived in Chappaqua, New York while Dad worked for Standard Oil of New Jersey in the 30 Rock building in New York City. From 1954 to 1975, the bulk of these pictures were taken by my Dad, Glenn Guthrie At the time, he was using a complicated, but normal for the day, manual Kodak with light meters and such. All of Dad's pictures from this time were slides. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Family trips this year: Cross-country drive to visit Dad's folks San Diego, CA with stops in lots of national parks on the way (biggest ones being Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Mount Rushmore).
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