November is Native American Heritage Month and the theme for this years celebration is Native Pride and Spirit: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. For years The Conservation Fund has worked to protect Native American lands and landmarks, and over the course of this month well highlight a few of these efforts. Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota was established in 1903, the first cave designated as a national park and the eighth national park in the country: goo.gl/DgAQsl. In 2011, the Fund worked with the National Park Service to add more than 5,500 acres to Wind Cave. Considered a sacred place by the Lakota, Wind Cave is one of the longest and most complex caves in the world. It’s known for its outstanding display of boxwork, an unusual cave formation composed of thin calcite fins resembling honeycombs. On the surface, the park now features more than 30,000 acres of mixed-grass prairie and ponderosa pine forest that provide important habitat for bison, elk, pronghorn, mule deer, coyotes, and prairie dogs.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 16:00:02 +0000
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