Wind Cave National Park News

Bumping and rocking on the rough vehicle track, our bus mounted the autumn prairie that rolled up ahead of us in tawny waves.

Wind Cave National Park will use hunting of elk on public and private lands outside the park to reduce and maintain the elk population.

If all goes as planned, a herd of wild bison will be roaming the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve by early November.

" Wind Cave National Park is seeking volunteers for their annual Christmas Bird Count planned for Sunday, December 13.

Bison have returned to Mexico for the first time since the 1800s, with Mexican authorities releasing 23 donated U.S. animals in northern Chihuahua state.

The Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve will offer bus tours to view the preserve's bison that arrived recently from Wind Cave National Park.

" The sounds of hammers and electric saws fill the air as a $1.4 million renovation project begins in the Wind Cave National Park Visitor Center.

The truck carrying the Wind Cave bison arriving at the El Uno Ecological Reserve in Mexico.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press FARGO, N.D. Fargo's MeritCare and Sioux Falls-based Sanford Health are expected to tie the knot this week in a merger of the two largest health systems in the Dakotas.

" Twenty-three bison from the mixed-grass prairie of Wind Cave National Park will soon be on their way to the high desert of Mexico.

Bison returned to the Flint Hills on Friday morning and were released onto 1,100 acres of the Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve.

For a brief hour, rays of sunshine win the battle with a cold South Dakota mist, and the result is a full rainbow, its arc touching two points on the rolling range.

A team from the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is in South Dakota this week watching as a herd of wild bison is captured to bring back to the Kansas Flint Hills.

Bad Bison Blood Biologists fight to protect the buffalo herds of Yellowstone and Wind Cave National Park from interbreeding cattle Recent blood tests indicate that there are only two pure public herds of bison in the U.S. - one in Yellowstone, the other in Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota.

Members of the IMPROVE steering committee at Wind Cave National Park. Date: September 24, 2009 Contact: Tom Farrell, 605-745-4600 Wind Cave National Park , S.D. - " Air quality specialists from around the nation met recently at Wind Cave National Park as part of an annual meeting to share information about protecting visibility in Class I areas.

On September 26, National Public Lands Day, Jewel Cave National Monument and Wind Cave National Park will host visitors and volunteers for a special day of service and celebration.

The fall prescribed burning season is here for the Black Hills National Forest. A two-day 652-acre prescribed burn was finished this afternoon at Wind Cave National Park.

According to officials in the Black Hills National Forest, a lightning strike smoldering since the weekend caused a 3-to-5 acre wildfire northwest of Hot Springs in the southern Hills.

Rangers at Wind Cave National Park in western South Dakota are leading night hikes in search of the black-footed ferret.

Rangers at Wind Cave National Park are leading nighttime hikes this summer with hopes of spying black-footed ferrets.