Extensive tracts of heavily eroded, uncultivable land with little vegetation.
A barren plateau region of the western US, mainly in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska, south of the Black Hills.
Driving past this site with friends, I slammed on the brakes and haphazardly stopped the car in the parking lot. I'd never seen a landscape like this. We leapt out of the car and ran up and down the hills yelling and laughing like children. This area is part of the Bruce Trail that stretches from the Bruce Peninsula south to Niagara Falls. It was overgrazed by cattle in the early twentieth century, and the shale was eroded until the beautiful red iron rich material surfaced. Though the grazing was stopped in the 1930's, this desolate area remains, wearing away more and more with each passing year.
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