Today we decided to check out two more area National Parks:
Jewel Cave and Wind Cave. On the way we
stopped in Custer, SD, and enjoyed the local ambience of coffee, bison statues,
and tourists. We got to Jewel Cave a
little late to get decent tour times for the cave walk so opted to buy tickets
for the early tour tomorrow. We’ll be on
the road early. We did hike a trail
through the burned remains of the Jasper Fire, South Dakota’s biggest of 85,000
acres back in 2000. Very stark in
places. At Wind Cave we checked out the
displays on local wildlife and set out back through Custer State Park to find
them. Pretty successful too with
Pronghorn Sheep, donkeys (they definitely weren’t too wild), another large herd
of bison, and of course prairie dogs.
Still haven’t seen an eagle yet though.
Tonight’s movie at the campground was on the annual buffalo roundup
where they cull out about 500 of the bison annually from the herd of about 1500
and sell them to buffalo ranchers. Some
of those have even gone to the farmer south of Bowling Green, Ohio in previous
years.
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