Grasslands National Park

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Grasslands National Park

Grasslands National Park is one of Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
's newer national park

National park

A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution....
s and is located in southern Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie provinces in Canada, which has an area of 588,276.09 square kilometres and a population of 1,015,895 , mostly living in the southern half of the province....
along the Montana

Montana

Montana is a U.S. state in the Western United States. The western third of the state contains numerous mountain ranges; other 'island' ranges are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains....
border. The park is part of the national park system, which aims to protect representative areas of the country's 39 natural regions. Grasslands National Park represents the Prairie Grasslands natural region, protecting one of the nation's only remaining areas of undisturbed mixed prairie

Prairie

Prairie refers to temperate grasslands of North America. These are areas of low topographic relief that historically supported grasses and herbs, with few or no trees, having a generally mesic habitat climate....
grassland. The unique landscape and harsh climate provide niches for several specially adapted plants and animals.

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Grasslands National Park is one of Canada

Canada

National park

A national park is a reserve of land, usually declared and owned by a national government, protected from most human development and pollution....
s and is located in southern Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Montana

Prairie

Prairie dog

Prairie dogs are small, burrowing rodents native to the grasslands of North America. There are five different species of prairie dogs: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs....
colonies. Other rare and endangered species that can be found in the park include the pronghorn antelope, sage grouse

Sage Grouse

The Greater Sage-grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, is the largest Tetraonidae in North America. Its range is sagebrush country in the western United States and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada....
, burrowing owl

Burrowing Owl

The Burrowing Owl is a small, long-legged true owl found throughout open landscapes of North America and South America. Burrowing owls can be found in grasslands, rangelands, agriculture areas, deserts, or any other dry, open area with low vegetation....
, ferruginous hawk

Ferruginous Hawk

The Ferruginous Hawk , Buteo regalis , is a large bird of prey. It is not a Accipiter like sparrowhawks or goshawks, but rather belongs to the broad-tailed buteo, known as "buzzards" in Europe....
, prairie rattlesnake, and eastern short-horned lizard

Short-horned Lizard

The Short-horned Lizard is a small lizard that occurs in North America. Like other horned lizards, it is often wrongly called the "Horned Toad", but it is not a toad at all....
.

Glacial meltwater erosion formed many of the park's characteristic features. Highlights of the park's geological landscape include the Frenchman River Valley, the 70 Mile Butte, the Killdeer Badlands

Badlands

A badlands is a type of arid terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively Erosion by wind and water. It can resemble malpa?s, a terrain of volcanic rocks....
and Rock Creek.

In 1874 Sir George Mercer Dawson

George Mercer Dawson

George Mercer Dawson was a Canada scientist and Surveyor . He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the son of Sir John William Dawson. By age 11, he was afflicted with tuberculosis of the spine that resulted in a deformed back and stunted his growth....
discovered western Canada's first dinosaur remains in the Killdeer Badlands during the International Boundary Survey. Later, in 1877, Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota people Sioux holy man, born near the Grand River in South Dakota and killed by reservation police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him and prevent him from supporting the Ghost Dance movement....
took refuge in the area with around 5000 Sioux after the defeat of Custer

George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. At the start of the Civil War, Custer was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, and his class's graduation was accelerated so that they could enter the war....
at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

At present, there are no camping facilities in the park, though wilderness camping is permitted, and there is an interpretive centre located in the nearby town of Val Marie

Val Marie, Saskatchewan

Val Marie is a prairie village located in the southwestern region of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is only a few kilometres from the Canada-USA border....
. The park consists of two widely separated sections.

In 2006 Plains Bison

Plains Bison

The plains bison is one of two subspecies of the American bison.The wood bison is a distinct northern subspecies of the North American bison....
from Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park

Elk Island National Park of Canada, or le parc national du Canada Elk Island, is one of 42 National Parks of Canada in the Parks Canada Agency....
in Alberta were introduced to Grasslands. The park annually gets about 6000 visitors.

Its alternate official name is Parc national des Prairies in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
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Grasslands National Park

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