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Turtle Mountain, or the Turtle Mountains, is an area in central North America, in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of North Dakota and southwestern portion of the Canadian province of Manitoba, approximately 62 miles (100 km) south of the city of Brandon on Manitoba Highway 10 / U.S. Route 281.
Turtle Mountains at left across Ward Valley & Danby Lake. (view from southeast Iron Mountains) The Turtle Mountains (Amat 'Achii'ar in the Mojave language), [3] are located in northeastern San Bernardino County, in the southeastern part of California. The colorful Turtle Mountains vary from deep reds, browns, tans and grays, to black.
Location of the main reservation Map of the Turtle Mountain reservation and trust lands.. The main reservation is located in Rolette County, North Dakota. [2] The reservation is six by twelve miles (9.7 km × 19.3 km), and it has one of the highest population densities of any reservation in the United States. [2]
Turtle Mountain Provincial Park is located within the temperate deciduous forest, and is predominantly covered by Populus tremuloides (trembling aspen). [9] Other vegetation species include balsam poplar and bur oak. [9] Turtle mountain is home to many wildlife species such as moose, white-tailed deer, beaver, raccoons, and various types of ...
The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe language: Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Ojibwe based on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota. The tribe has 30,000 enrolled members.
Frank prior to the slide. The town of Frank was founded in the southwestern corner of the District of Alberta, a subdivision of the North-West Territories, in 1901.A location was chosen near the base of Turtle Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass, where coal had been discovered one year earlier. [2]
Turtle Mountain is an anticline of Paleozoic Rundle Group carbonates thrust over weaker Mesozoic clastics and coals.Summit fissures at the apex of the anticline likely allowed water to infiltrate and weaken the slightly-soluble carbonates within the mountain face, while the supporting underlying clastics were undermined by valley glaciation followed by erosion from the Crowsnest River.
Just south of the community lie the Turtle Mountains, a plateau that rises 90 to 120 m (300 to 390 ft) above the surrounding countryside. The Manitoba side of the plateau is protected by a provincial park, Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, which is approximately 186 km 2 (72 sq mi) in size.