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.''