Badlands included in park service stimulus plans

By The Associated Press

 

The National Park Service plans to spend $8.9 million in economic stimulus money for work in South Dakota's Badlands.

 A list from the National Park Service shows that rehabilitating the Badlands Loop Road and replacing a deteriorated boardwalk on the Cliff Shelf Trail as the only projects in the state among more than 750 nationwide to get stimulus funding through the park service.

 Total spending is listed as $750 million.

 In a release, the National Park Service says all the projects are long-standing priorities based on the agency's capital planning process.