Wind Cave to use grant to explain park's cultural importance to SD Indian youth.

Wind Cave National Park is one of 19 parks nationwide to get funding from the National Park Foundation for its America's Best Idea program that exposes certain groups to national parks.

Windy City Lake by Jim Pisarowicz

Park Superintendent Vidal Davila said the grant will be used to bring Lakota Sioux students to the cave in southwest South Dakota to hear from tribal elders about the cultural importance of Wind Cave and to introduce them to the National Park Service's stewardship concept.

Park officials said the students will view interpretation operations and see how the National Park Service interprets the cultural significance of Wind Cave. Students will be introduced to natural resource operations and learn about bison conservation, endangered species reintroduction, prescribed burns and wild fires, and the Ponderosa pine and prairie ecosystems.

Source: The Daily Journal