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Teddy Roosevelt's North Dakota badlands ranch 'threatened' by gravel pit

Frik Els | August 08, 2012 | 5:48 pm

Theodore Roosevelt's ranch in the badlands of North Dakota where the "restorative power of wilderness" made a "lasting impression" on the 26th president of the United States is being encroached on by industrialization due to the state's fracking oil boom....