Find a Forest (NF)
or Grassland (NG)
USDA Forest Service
Nebraska &
Samuel R. McKelvie
National Forests
Buffalo Gap, Fort Pierre,
& Oglala National Grasslands
125 North Main Street
Chadron, NE 69337
308-432-0300
Telephone for the
Hearing Impaired
308-432-0304
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Education: Visitor Centers - National Grasslands Visitor Center
National Grasslands Visitor Center
Of all the groups of plants on earth, grasses are the most
important to people. This fact, along with the unusual history
of the Forest Service’s twenty National Grasslands, makes
the National Grasslands Visitor Center one of a kind.
Wall, South Dakota, is home to the National Grasslands Visitor
Center. The Center is part of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland
- Wall Ranger District. Two blocks from the Center on Main Street
is the world famous Wall Drug. |
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A theater, exhibit room, Jr. Ranger program, restrooms and a sales
area are offered. For passport stamp seekers, check out the prairie
dog featured on the Buffalo Gap National Grassland stamp. Exhibits
feature grassland wildlife, grazing management and the history of
the Great Plains. Other exhibits created by the Center staff are made
to be touched!
You will never be late for the start of the theater presentation.
The 25 minute “America’s Grasslands” presentation
is shown upon your request.
Range is one of the five renewable resources of multiple-use management.
The Forest Service is required to manage for a variety of uses such
as recreation, range, timber, wildlife and fish habitat, and watershed.
The twenty national grasslands are part of the 191 million acre responsibility
of the Forest Service.
Center hours: the hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday,
year-round.
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USDA Forest Service, Nebraska & Samuel R. McKelvie National Forests
Buffalo Gap, Fort Pierre, & Oglala National Grasslands
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July 31, 2008
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