An oxbow on the Little Missouri River brings the spring's ice floe up next to the Long X road, a 30-mile road snaking through the Badlands between Watford City, and Killdeer, North Dakota. Rain clouds to the north hasten the snow melt -- what little snow melt there is. It's been a dry year for snow.
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