badlands

In the summer of 2022, two boys hiking with their father and a 7-year-old cousin in the North Dakota badlands came across some large bones poking out of a rock.

“All the earth colors of the painter’s palette are out there in the many miles of badlands,” she wrote in an exhibition catalog in 1939.

Here in Medora, a tiny town in the badlands of western North Dakota, Teddy Roosevelt is everywhere.

California’s state park system offers 3,000 miles of trail and terrain from beaches to badlands, Joshua trees and more.

However, they did say the killings were not part of ongoing federal efforts to reduce burro populations that have come to dominate the park’s badlands.