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Areas # 11 E, 11 W, and The Caladona Area.
11 E in the first Get. Plains Segment
with magnificent rolling grassland hills,
with pines & juniper ridges, and with very
spectacular broadlands along the south
side of the White River. While # is in
the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, John
Butter tells me that it is studded
with cattle holdings (white ranchers)
who also lease large areas for cattle
and sheep. For all practical purposes,
it is unavailable, in my opinion.
11 W is not quite as spectacular
but very fine. However it is studded
with ranches also, and, in my
opinion, unavailable.
The Caladona area is desolate
and not the kind of Great Plains
scene that would appeal to the public,
Summarizing, it is my impression
that the Caladona Butte area has the one
most susceptible of its acre, for park
purposes, but even if it is probable
unavailable during the period of high
cattle prices and wet years.