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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...

The Onon Steppe is the grassland valley of the Onon River in Mongolia and Russia, notable for upper Onon traditions linked to Genghis Khan.

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 Katun Steppe is a distinct grassland region located in the Altai Mountains of Russia, notable for its unique alpine flora and diverse wildlife.

Part of a Minnesota state park established in 1963, the Upper Sioux Agency Prairie protects native grasslands surrounding a historic administrative complex for the Dakota people built in 1854.

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 glaciofluvial ridge associated with Maine's Kennebec basin, notable for tracing meltwater drainage during ice-sheet retreat.

The Androscoggin River Esker is a glaciofluvial ridge in the Maine river basin of the same name, notable as a remnant of Laurentide subglacial drainage.

Cheyenne River Badlands is an eroded region along the Cheyenne River in western South Dakota, forming part of the greater Badlands landscape adjacent to Badlands National Park.

The Thetford Esker is a glaciofluvial sand-and-gravel ridge near Thetford, Vermont, notable for recording meltwater drainage during regional deglaciation.

The Machias River Esker is a sand-and-gravel glaciofluvial ridge in eastern Maine, notable for recording meltwater flow during the region's deglaciation.

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.

The Kherlen River Steppe follows eastern Mongolia's Kherlen River, notable because the 1,254 km river is among Mongolia's longest.

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.

The Selenge Steppe is a northern Mongolian grassland of the Selenge-Orkhon basin, notable as part of a 227,660 sq km forest-steppe ecoregion.

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 Selenge Steppe in Mongolia is a crucial agricultural and pasture region, notable for surrounding the Selenge River, the primary tributary feeding into Russia's massive Lake Baikal.

The Selenga Steppe is a grassland zone in Buryatia, Russia, along the Selenga River, notable as part of the basin feeding Lake Baikal.