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Nez Perce National Historical Park - Nature and Science

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For thousands of years, the people, the Nimiipuu, or Nez Perce have lived in the area minimally covered by Nez Perce National Historical Park. The park was established as a unit of the national park system on May 15, 1965 and was added to in 1992 to incorporate 38 sites in the states of Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana. The park sites are mostly small pockets of land surrounded by a patchwork of private, local, state, tribal, and other federal ownership.

The Nimiipuu lived across three ecoregions, being: the Shortgrass Prairies of the Palouse Grasslands and Missouri Basin; the Sagebrush Steppe of the Columbia and Snake River Plateaus; and the Mixed Conifer of the Blue Mountains, Salmon River Mountains, basins and ranges of southwestern Montana, and northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana.

These ecoregions provide a rich and varied environment for the natural resources of the park and surrounding lands. Interaction and use of these resources has been the primary factor for the development of the rich culture of the area.

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