The National Park Service calls this lookout a complete geologic section of the park, with every layer present. Two bright paleosols, the Yellow Mounds and the Interior Paleosol, stand out in the view. Conata Basin is also central to the recovery of the black-footed ferret.
Conata Basin on your left, Yellow Mounds right after it, so choose. This lookout is a complete section of the park, every layer present. Black-footed ferrets came back to this country by way of a machine. Before release, captive ferrets were trained in this park by a robo-badger. It was a remote-controlled predator, built to give them a fright while it was still safe. From nineteen ninety-six to ninety-nine, one hundred forty-seven of them were released in this basin. They went into the prairie dog towns that feed them.
Photo: NPS / Cathy Bell, public domain · Public domain