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The Little Missouri Badlands are an eroded landscape surrounding the Little Missouri River in western North Dakota. Layered sedimentary rocks have been shaped into steep gullies, ridges, buttes, and exposed bands of differently colored material, while grasslands occupy many of the gentler surfaces....
The Peenetal floodplain is a wetland region along the Peene River in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northeastern Germany, between Lake Kummerow and the Baltic Sea. Often called the Amazon of the North, it is among the largest contiguous fen landscapes in Central Europe and is part of the Peene Valley Lands...
Narew National Park (Narwiański Park Narodowy) is a protected area established in 1996 in northeastern Poland's Podlaskie Voivodeship. The park preserves a section of the Narew River valley notable for its anastomosing river pattern, in which multiple interconnected channels divide and rejoin across...
Carley State Park is a Minnesota state park located in the southeastern part of the state along the Whitewater River valley. Its terrain includes steep bluff prairies, sometimes called goat prairies, which support native grasses and spring wildflower blooms on south-facing slopes. The park is manage...
The Murghab Steppe is a historical and geographical region in Central Asia, notably including Turkmenistan's ancient Merv oasis, a major Silk Road hub in antiquity.
Milk River Badlands is a remote badlands region in southern Alberta along the Milk River, notable for containing Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, which protects the largest concentration of Indigenous rock art on the North American plains.
The Frenchman River Valley Badlands are an eroded landscape within the West Block of Grasslands National Park in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada. The Frenchman River passes through mixed-grass prairie where exposed sediment, steep slopes, coulees, and other landforms record the effects of water an...
Missouri Breaks is a remote stretch of eroded bluffs and coulees along the upper Missouri River in Montana, designated a National Back Country Byway and largely unchanged since Lewis and Clark passed through in 1805.
The Upper Sioux Agency State Park is located along the Minnesota River in southwestern Minnesota, established in 1963 to preserve the site of the Upper Sioux Agency, a U.S. government administrative complex built in 1854 to manage relations with the Dakota people. The park protects native tallgrass...
Nuestra Soledad San Luis del Río is a single-village mezcal crafted in the San Luis del Río region of Oaxaca, Mexico, using primarily espadín agave and traditionally produced with stone-heated ovens and hand-rolled burros.
Spanning the area between the Don River and the Sea of Azov in Russia, the Don-Azov Steppe is a historically significant grassland noted for its strategic role in regional Cossack history.
The Kennebec River Esker is a prominent glaciofluvial landform located in the Kennebec River basin of Maine. This geological formation consists of a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, deposited by meltwater streams that flowed within tunnels beneath the retreating Laurentide Ice Shee...
The Androscoggin River Esker is a glaciofluvial ridge located in the Maine river basin of the same name. It was formed as a remnant of subglacial drainage channels that existed beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last ice age. Composed primarily of stratified sand and gravel deposited by mel...
The Cheyenne River Badlands are an eroded landscape along the Cheyenne River in western South Dakota, adjacent to Badlands National Park. The area features sharply carved terrain and is part of the broader Great Plains badlands. It lies within the Cheyenne River Lakota reservation region.
The Thetford Esker is a glacial landform near Thetford, Vermont, composed primarily of sand and gravel deposited by meltwater. Like other eskers, it forms a long, narrow ridge tracing the route of a stream that flowed within or beneath glacial ice. The feature provides geological evidence of meltwat...
The Machias River Esker is a glacial landform in eastern Maine composed primarily of sand and gravel deposited by meltwater during deglaciation. Its elongated ridge records the path of water flowing within or beneath retreating glacial ice, making it useful for reconstructing the region's late Quate...
The Ob-Irtysh Steppe is a vast transitional grassland in Western Siberia, Russia, notable for its fertile chernozem soils that support extensive regional wheat and agriculture.
The Eastern River Esker is a glaciofluvial ridge in Maine, United States, notable for marking a pressurized meltwater course beneath the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
The Winchester Esker is a glaciofluvial ridge in the Winchester area of New Hampshire, notable as evidence of Laurentide meltwater deposition.
Moreau River Badlands is a rugged eroded landscape in north-central South Dakota along the Moreau River, situated within the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribal lands.
Grand River Badlands is an eroded badlands region in northwestern South Dakota and southern North Dakota along the Grand River, within the ancestral territory of the Lakota Sioux people.
Cannonball River Badlands is an eroded region along the Cannonball River in south-central North Dakota, notable for the spherical Cannonball concretions that gave the river its name.
Kankakee River Prairie is a notable natural area within Illinois's Kankakee River State Park, recognized for its diverse floodplain ecosystems and restored grasslands.
The Dzhida Steppe in Buryatia, Russia, is a distinct forest-steppe region notable for its fertile valleys along the Dzhida River and its historical Evenk settlements.
