National_Parks
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Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. The park protects an expanse of mixed-grass prairie where bison, bighorn sheep, ( Ovis canadensis ) and prairie dogs live today. Photography by Jose More
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26 imagesWind Cave National Park, near Hot Springs in western South Dakota, was established in 1903 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The cave is currently the sixth-longest in the world and notable for its displays of boxwork, a rare cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs Photography by Jose More
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16 imagesMount Rushmore National Memorial, is a mountain sculpture of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore, Lakota Sioux name: Six Grandfathers, near Keystone, South Dakota. Sculpted by Danish American artist Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum. Photography by Jose More
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47 imagesThe Grand Canyon, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located entirely in northern Arizona and is one of the great tourist attractions in the United States. It borders of two Indian reservations: the Havasupai Indian Reservation and the Hualapai Indian Reservation. The Grand Canyon is a massive canyon carved over several million years by the Colorado River. Photography by Jose More
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24 imagesMargerie Glacier in Glacier Bay, Alaska part of the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, seen from the Norwegian Pearl, a cruise ship of Norwegian Cruise Line. Photography by Jose More
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59 imagesFlorida alligator, A. mississippiensis, in the Everglades. The alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. Photography by Jose More
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23 imagesDevils Tower National Monument in northeastern Wyoming is a monolith made up of igneous rock, phonolite. The tower is held sacred by Native American tribes including the Arapaho, Crow, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Lakota, and Shoshone. Devils Tower was a location for the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Photography by Jose More
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26 imagesCuster State Park is a state park and wildlife reserve in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota. A large herd of buffalos, American Bison, roams the park. The park is South Dakota's largest and first state park, named after Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Photography by Jose More
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22 imagesThe Crazy Horse Memorial, a monument under construction on Thunderhead Mountain, a privately held land in the Black Hills, Custer County, South Dakota. It depicts Crazy Horse, an Oglala Lakota warrior, riding a horse and pointing into the distance. The memorial was commissioned by Henry Standing Bear, a Lakota elder, to be sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski. Photography by Jose More
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84 imagesBadlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota protects 242,756 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires. The park protects an expanse of mixed-grass prairie where bison, bighorn sheep, ( Ovis canadensis ) and prairie dogs live today. Photography by Jose More