Jamestown ND to Roosevelt National Park

 

 

Sunflowers are a native
North American Plant and a short-
season crop. Grown mostly in NorthDakota,
South Dakota, Kansas and Minnesota.
The seed is a source of transfat-free
vegetable oil.

North Dakota Fields of Sunflowers
along highway West to Medora ND.

The Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Painted Canyon entrance. The park
covers 110 sq miles of Northa Dakota Badlands.
President Truman established the park
in 1947.
 

The Theo. Roosevelt Natl Park
stretches across over 70,000 acreas of
western North Dakota.

Judy at  Painted Cayon Lookout
at Theodore Roosevelt Natl Park
August 2012. 

View of the North Dakota
Badlands

We are at a lookout from the Medora ND

side of the T. Roosevelt Natl Park. We

are heading to Prairie Dog Town.

Steve and Betty at the same overlook.

This day we see prairie dogs and bison.

Prairie Dog Town in the North Dakota

Badlands. Looks like a lunarscape. A "coterie"

consists of one adult and several females and

offspring. There can be up to 50-60  burrows

in an acre.

Prarie dogs are actually rodents

and  related to squirrels

These "dogs" are small and weigh

about 3 lbs. They identify each other

from a kiss or sniff. They are cohesive

and close knit.

The above 3 pictures are of bison

in the Theodore Roosevelot National Park

near Medora North Dakota. The middle

picture is of a bull bison about 1200-1500 lbs

and it was stompin' and snortin' at the passerbys

in their vehicles. They can be very dangerous

due to their quickness.