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Badlands National Park
What if one of America’s most “hostile” landscapes turned out to be one of its most breathtaking?
In this episode of Two Chicks With Hiking Sticks, we explore Badlands National Park in South Dakota — a land shaped by 75 million years of erosion, ancient inland seas, prehistoric mammals, and powerful Lakota history.
We’ll walk through:
Why the name “Badlands” comes from the Lakota word makȟóšiča
How this landscape preserves some of the world’s richest Oligocene fossil beds
The story behind its designation as a National Monument in 1939 and National Park in 1978
Wildlife encounters with bison…
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