National Park Service

Mount Rushmore National Memorial Condition Assessment National Park Service

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a small cultural park (517 ha in size) with limited but important natural resources that are somewhat sheltered in a landscape dominated by the Black Hills National Forest. Important natural resources include about 344 ha of old-growth ponderosa pine forest?or about 17 percent of this forest type in the Black Hills?and the Starling Basin wetland complex, which is considered an important conservation site in the Black Hills for bats, reptiles and amphibians, and butterflies.