Wildlife and Wildfires
Apr 21, 2015
Smoke from an out-of-control prescribed burn at Wind Cave hung in the air when Joel Schwader visited Custer State Park last week. "It was so smoky when I first got there," Schwader says. "You could barely drive in it. I found it amazing how the animals seemed to adjust so well to it."
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