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Pipestone National MonumentPrairie landscape with outcropping of quartzite rocks
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Pipestone National Monument
Insects, Spiders, Centipedes, Millipedes
Dragonfly
NPS, G. Wagner
Dragonfly
Over fifty-six families of insects inhabit Pipestone National Monument. Thousands of specimens representing these families are curated at the Monument.
A seam of pipestone between layers of quartzite  

Did You Know?
The red pipestone rock at Pipestone National Monument was traded as far east as Georgia and as far west as the Pacific coast.

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Last Updated: July 28, 2006 at 11:39 EST