Wind Cave National Park: The First 100 Years (Images of America)

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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Wind Cave National Park: South Dakota by Peggy Sanders. Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. Complete with more than miles of surveyed cavern passageways below ground and 28, acres of diverse ecology above, Wind Cave National Park is an American treasure with an impressive history.

The first recorded discovery of Wind Cave occurred in when brothers Jesse and Tom Bingham followed the s Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. The first recorded discovery of Wind Cave occurred in when brothers Jesse and Tom Bingham followed the sounds of the whistling wind and came upon the cave. In , the cave and surrounding area became Wind Cave National Park, the seventh national park in the nation and the first created with a cave as its focal point.

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The CCC built roads and buildings, landscaped and made improvements to better accommodate tours inside the cave. Paperback , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Wind Cave National Park , please sign up.

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Discovering Wind Cave The many books in the Images of America Series offer readers the opportunity to get to revisit the histories of places they know well. Thus, I have enjoyed reading several volumes in the series which describe Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where I was born, or Washington, D.

• Mammoth Cave and the Kentucky Cave Region.
• The Missing Calico: A Millicent Anderson Mystery (Millicent Anderson Mysteries Book 1).
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But the many volumes in the series can also be used to discover something about new places - towns or sites in the United States that the reader finds unfamiliar. Geology of National Parks, 4th Ed. Harris and Esther Tuttle. Our National Parks , Reader's Digest. Island in the Plains , Edward Raventon. The Great Plains , Walter P. Roadside Geology of South Dakota , J. Rocks and Minerals , Charles A. Caves , Stephen Kramer. The Science of Speleology , Edited by T.

Underground Worlds , D. They began rounding up the animals and shipping the excess live from the park to other parks and reserves. Rangers also worked to improve the grassland by reseeding overgrazed areas with native grasses and controlling exotic plant species. In the s and 80s, managers continued to focus on caring for the wildlife and rangeland by building an understanding of how the natural systems should function.

The reintroduction of fire as a natural means to improve the range and to limit the expansion of the forest onto the prairie was researched. Cave Exploration While investigating the naturally operating systems, park managers realized that the cave is not an isolated environment. What happens on the land can and often does influence the cave. Understanding where cave passages are located in relation to the land above helps us avoid damaging the cave.

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For example, if the land is altered, it might change the way water travels through the cave and change cave formations. Exploration is important and is a continuous project with several miles of new cave being surveyed each year. Wind Cave National Park is 33, acres.

Because of its relatively small size and because there are missing parts, park managers must take an active role in helping the ecosystems function as they might have in the past.

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This requires understanding how everything in the park relates and how the naturally operating system would have functioned. Park rangers work with researchers to replicate that natural system using prescribed fires, bison round-ups, and biological control of exotic plant species. In order to restore some of the missing parts to the park's ecosystem on July 4, , working with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, park biologists reintroduced one of the little known predators of the prairie - the black-footed ferret. These rare animals live on prairie dog towns and can consume over prairie dogs in one year.

They help maintain balance and restoring them continued the long history of Wind Cave National Park as a home to prairie plants and animals. How we accomplish the mission of the park is determined by what we know about the park. The land, the animals, and the cave are all related and it is only when we understand the resources and their connections that we can best protect Wind Cave National Park. Info Alerts Maps Calendar Reserve. Alerts In Effect Dismiss. McDonald left and his son Alvin. Feuding During the fall of , J. Because of the excellent prairie habitat around the park, a national game preserve was established bordering Wind Cave.