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<p>This June 3, 2012, photo provided by the National Park Service shows the site of Theodore Roosevelt's ranch house once stood, with interpretive exhibits in the foreground, at the Elkhorn Ranch site in the badlands of North Dakota. The former president's great-grandson, Tweed Roosevelt, is asking President Barack Obama to designate the area as a national monument, which would block development on an adjacent plot of land, including a plan to mine gravel that would bring heavy machinery, roads, noise and dust to the site. The pristine park is visited by more than half-a-million people each year. (AP Photo/National Park Service, Valerie J. Naylor)</p>

<p>This June 3, 2012, photo provided by the National Park Service shows the site of Theodore Roosevelt's ranch house once stood, with interpretive exhibits in the foreground, at the Elkhorn Ranch site in the badlands of North Dakota. The former president's great-grandson, Tweed Roosevelt, is asking President Barack Obama to designate the area as a national monument, which would block development on an adjacent plot of land, including a plan to mine gravel that would br…

June 13, 2012

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Badlands monument threatened
June 13, 2012 9:15 p.m.

Badlands monument threatened

Planned mine could disturb Roosevelt ranch

BISMARCK, N.D. - The site of the Elkhorn Ranch in the badlands of North Dakota looks and feels much as it did when Theodore Roosevelt retreated there to raise cattle following the deaths of his wife and mother in 1884.