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Roosevelt ranch in ND listed on National Register
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MEDORA, N.D. (AP) _ Theodore Roosevelt's Elkhorn Ranch in

western North Dakota has been added to the National Register of

Historic Places.

The National Register is the federal government's list of

properties it considers worthy of recognition and preservation. The

Forest Service says the listing includes about 200 acres of land in

Theodore Roosevelt National Park that can't be developed, and also

about 4,400 acres of surrounding Greater Elkhorn Ranchlands where

development is not banned.

Before he became president, Roosevelt spent more than three

years in the North Dakota Badlands in the 1880s, ranching and

hunting on land that government agencies and conservation groups

have hailed as the ``cradle of conservation.''