Coal Seam in the Bisti Wilderness

These badlands used to be on the edge of a great inland sea that divided North America in two. Coal beds were formed where ancient swamps once existed. At one time, these coal beds were going to be strip-mined. Thankfully. they were saved in the 1980's when President Reagan designated them a wilderness area.

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