Of Buttes and Badlands

Theodore Roosevelt Park, North Unit

Theodore Roosevelt Park, South Unit (panorama shot)

View from TR's cabin

Yesterday's adventure was Theodore Roosevelt Park, visiting the cabin where the 26th president lived and wrote and seeing the places that inspired him to become an ardent conservationist. 

The buttes and buffalo, the badlands and the grasslands. It was a perfect, blue-sky day with fluffs of cottonwood floating through the air. The parks (both sections, north and south) were relatively empty.

I'm writing this from the deck of a working ranch as chickens peck beneath the boards and vast hills of green stretch to the horizon. I'm thinking about how profoundly the environment shaped TR. How profoundly it affects us all.