Elkhorn Ranch (Preservation Magazine)
An hour on rutted dirt roads north of Medora, North Dakota lies a tiny unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park known as the Elkhorn Ranch. The site of Roosevelt's late 1800s home, all that remains of the original structures are a few foundation stones peaking out from the tall grass.
Surrounded by land under threat of being drilled or developed as part of western North Dakota's latest oil and gas boom, the National Trust for Historic Preservation has declared the Elkhorn Ranch one of their National Treasures in the hope of preserving the natural beauty of the site that was the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt's conservation ethic.
