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• The park is stepping up patrols, working on better signs and moving bison away from roads, where animals are drawn by salt used to melt snow and ice. The park doesn't salt the roads, but vehicles carry it in from other areas.
• "Bison licking salt on roads during or after a winter storm, especially at night, can be nearly impossible to see," Davila said. "It is hard to imagine an invisible 2,000 pound animal, but with their brown hair they just blend into the darkness."
• The park attempted to donate meat from the animals recently killed to a local food pantry but state regulations do not allow for road-killed bison to be donated. The bison carcasses instead provided food for the park's many predators.
• The park has about 500 bison. This year is the 100th anniversary of the reintroduction of the animals to Wind Cave. The last of the bison native to the area was killed in 1881, more than two decades before Wind Cave was declared a national park in 1903. In November 1913, the 14 bison that would form the foundation of the current herd were shipped by rail from the Bronx Zoo in New York to Hot Springs and then by truck and wagon to the park.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Bond has been set at $50,000 cash for a man accused of critically injuring a woman in a hit-and-run in Sioux Falls.
• Thirty-three-year-old Mark Morris faces a felony hit-and-run charge that carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison and $4,000 in fines.
• Defense attorney Katie Dunn on Wednesday unsuccessfully asked Judge John Schlimgen for a lesser bond that would give Morris a more realistic chance at freedom while his case is pending. Prosecutor Ed Angel said Morris is a flight risk because his parents live in Ecuador and because authorities will consider a manslaughter charge should 58-year-old Reva Rezac die from her injuries.
• Authorities allege that Morris was driving a car that struck Rezac on Monday, then sped off.
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