PHOTO OF THE DAY August 22, 2005  

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Where South Dakota
When 1995
Photographer Daniel R. Westergren

Stretching to the dark skyline of the ponderosa-clad Black Hills, Buffalo Gap National Grassland showcases prairie recovering from near destruction by overgrazing and soil depletion.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Big, Bad, and Beautiful," May/June 1996, Traveler magazine)


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