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THE FRUGAL ROOM CONTEST Did you take your room from drab to fab? Stop by The Blessed Door for The Frugal Room Contest entry form. The winner will be featured in the August etc. for her, receive a $200 Blessed Door gift certificate and other great prizes. Contest runs through June 30, 2012.
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in search of greener grasses. Our great plains were once sort of an Africa, with between 30 and 60 million bison roaming freely over them, along with all of the other wildlife that followed them, hunted them, or forged ahead of them. Those days are tragically gone forever, but a glimpse of those days can still be seen and felt every fall at Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup & Arts Festival. The actual roundup serves a very important purpose as far as the bison are concerned. Although the park is more than 70,000 acres, it can only sustain so many animals, approximately 1,300 bison, along with the other grasseating mammals. When conditions are good, there are many more bison than can be sustained, so they must be rounded up and managed. Each fall between 2 and 500 getting sold to start a ranch, or to enhance an existing herd. All of the bison sold are completely weaned off their mothers, and none of the bulls are sold. The bulls are too big to fit in the pens, and not too thrilled with being told what to do.
Here are some tips for enjoying the Roundup: 1. Get there early. Like a day or two early. The Arts Festival is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, September 22-23, 2012. The actual roundup is Monday, September 24. It is a good idea to get there early for that as well. You want to get a good seat right up toward the fence. And, the bison tend to do as they choose, so predicting when they may herd past your perch is difficult to predict. 2. Bring supplies. Chairs, food, water, rain cover, shade, etc. You will be sitting and waiting for more than 1,000 animals to run by you, next to more than 10,000 folks who want to see the same thing you do. If you have the above items, you can do what we should have done, which is enjoy the roundup and then sit back, have a picnic lunch and wait for the traffic to slowly move out of the park before attempting to venture on our way.
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