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orings the equal of which, it is believed, will be hard 

 to find in any other place outside of the Badland 

 Country. 



"Excellent views of this country are obtained 

 from ridges and hogbacks which extend out from 

 the main divides and ridges. Many of these ridges, 

 hogbacks or spurs have wood roads leading along 

 them, over which one may drive an automobile to 

 points overlooking the innumerable gorges, canyons, 

 and elevations, often looking down upon the Mis- 

 souri several hundred feet below. Most of the ridges 

 and plateaus are covered with scattering pine, and 

 scrub cedar timber." 



Mr. Bandy has recommended that three areas 

 which he specified should be set apart for some ap- 

 propriate form of preservation, and Mr. Raney Y. 

 Lyman, another Land Office engineer, has recom- 

 mended that 21,000 acres on the Yellowstone River 

 south of Glendive, Montana, should also be pre- 

 served. In southwestern North Dakota residents of 

 a Badlands area on the Little Missouri River were 

 not so considerate of public opinion or government 

 standards. Determining among themselves that, 

 willy-nilly, their specimen must be made formally a 

 National Park, they bombarded Congress session 

 after session to create a "Roosevelt Memorial Na- 

 tional Park" of 1,300,000 acres, an area nearly as 

 large as Yellowstone, including a ranch once owned 

 by Theodore Roosevelt. At this writing they are 

 still bombarding Congress as scores of others have 



