Tracking our Junior Ranger badge collection across the National Park Service
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NewOlympic National Park protects three worlds in one: a wild Pacific coastline, a temperate rain forest that drinks 12 to 14 feet of rain a year, and glacier-capped mountains. For children, it is a gateway of wonder...
Pompeys Pillar holds the only on-site physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition still visible along their route — William Clark's own signature, carved into Montana sandstone on July 25, 1806...
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is the only national park in the United States named for a single person — and the wild North Dakota badlands it protects are the very country that shaped him...
Pipestone National Monument protects the sacred red stone — catlinite — that Plains nations have quarried by hand for centuries to carve the bowls of their sacred pipes. It is the only place where that quarrying has never stopped, and it is where White Buffalo Woman is remembered...
Wind Cave National Park holds about 95% of the world's known boxwork — and it is a cave that breathes, exhaling and inhaling through its one natural entrance as the pressure changes. To the Lakota it is Maka Oniye, the breathing earth, the door their people came through...
Yellowstone National Park sits atop one of the largest active volcanoes on Earth — a supervolcano whose last great eruption, 640,000 years ago, left a caldera 45 miles wide and 10,000 hydrothermal features still breathing today. Here's how we earned the Junior Ranger badge with the girls.
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