• Wind Cave National Park - Two Worlds

    Wind Cave

    National Park South Dakota

Wind Cave Room - Ice Stream Room

Warren Netherton investigates the Ice Stream flowstone
Warren Netherton investigates the Ice Stream flowstone
NPS Photo by Jim Pisarowicz
 
There is a small, pure white flowstone deposit like a small stream flowing across this room. Discovered by Warren Netherton, Jim Pisarowicz, and Karen Rosga on June 9, 1984.

Did You Know?

fire on the prairie

Fire is an important factor in protecting the prairie.  Historically, fires burned across the prairie every 4 to 7 years.  Fires burn the small trees that would otherwise march across the prairie and turn the grasslands to forest.