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Environmental Factors

environmental factors includes:

Fire Regime
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Nature & Science
Environmental Factors

Located in rural Montana and North Dakota the park lacks serious environmental threats. Through the Inventory and Monitoring initiative we are developing our baseline data sets for natural resources. Issues of concern are native prairie restoration, exotic plants and the accelerated erosion of the south bank of the Missouri River.
Portrait of Mordecai Cloud Hopewell.  

Did You Know?
The term "Hopewell" derives from the farm where excavations of an earthwork site occurred in 1891-1892. The farm was owned by a local gentleman named Mordecai Cloud Hopewell.

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Last Updated: October 04, 2006 at 16:02 EST