I spent a lot of time in the badlands during my youth, and I was canoeing there this last weekend, 60 km from Tolman Bridge to Drumheller; we saw lots of beavers on the river, pelicans, deer, a wide range of ducks, an owl... Rattle snakes are possible, but rare - more common further south. No scorpions. Coyotes, but you rarely see them; you almost always hear them during the night if you're camping along the valley, though. Pronghorns are common on the hills around the valley, but I don't think I've ever seen any down in the valley.
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