North Dakota
Riders say encounter with bachelor stallion at Theodore Roosevelt National Park was 'magical,' not dangerous
MEDORA, N.D. — A group of six riders had just finished packing and started on a trail ride through the Badlands at Theodore Roosevelt National Park when a wild horse came scurrying down a butte toward them.
“All of a sudden I heard a whinny come from up on the bluff,” Kelly Ringer said. She was one of the riders visiting the park from Park Rapids, Minnesota. “He came barreling down.”
The horse’s dramatic arrival came with a spirited exchange of whinnying and neighing as the wild horse, a 5-year-old stallion named Alluvium, and the horses in the riding group chatted.
At first, Ringer, who was riding a young horse who had never before been exposed to a wild horse and was unfamiliar with the terrain, was concerned. But her worries quickly faded.
“It was magical,” Ringer said. “He was fine. He wasn’t aggressive.”
It soon became apparent that Alluvium had a particular interest in a “little mare” named Gypsy in the riding group, she said, which was departing from the Roundup Group Horse Camp 12 miles from Medora in the park’s south unit, where 185 to 200 wild horses roam.
“He decided to hang around” and followed the group as it left for the trail ride on Thursday, May 16, Ringer said. Alluvium circled the riders and after about five minutes, Ringer’s horse, Boone, bucked, and she fell. She was not hurt.
“That’s just what horses do,” she said. “It wasn’t a big deal.”
Alluvium followed the riders for a time but stopped after a while, seeming to keep to a certain area while avoiding others.
“I think that was probably his territory,” and he appeared to regard other areas as off-limits, possibly because they were the turf of other wild stallions in the park, Ringer said.
The wild horses are organized into social groups called bands, each led by a stallion.
Later on during the ride, when Alluvium was no longer tailing the group, Ringer’s horse again bucked, possibly spooked by some brush.
“It’s horses,” Ringer said. “They have a mind of their own. It’s a risk that you take.”
Horse advocates have said Alluvium, a bachelor stallion, was acting naturally by trying to recruit mares to form his own band.
Ringer and her fellow riders had another drop-in visitor at Roundup Group Horse Camp — a bison that came up close to the corral and charged, spooking Boone, who was inside the corral.
“He took a couple of charges at the corral with my horse in it,” she said. “That was a little unsettling.”
Contributed / Kelly Ringer
But the group of riders came to the park knowing that it is home to wildlife, including horses and bison, Ringer said.
“These are just risks that you take,” she said. “What would that park be without the bison and the wild horses? The park would not be what it is without the wildlife, and that includes the wild horses.”
During their stay, a park ranger paid a visit to the group of riders at Roundup camp, and they told him about their encounter with Alluvium.
“We didn’t necessarily report it,” Ringer said. “We didn’t contact the park, but a ranger came in one day and the horse (Alluvium) was there and asked if he was a nuisance.”
Ringer mentioned that she had been bucked off. The ranger asked if they wanted Alluvium removed and was told no. The ranger left soon after, and Ringer thought no more of it — until she learned the park considers Alluvium a “nuisance animal” that poses a danger to the public and will remove him from the park.
“That’s why I feel so bad,” she said. “We told the ranger, ‘No, leave him.’”
She added: “This is a young bachelor stallion. He’s just doing what is natural. Horses are herd animals.”
Another rider in the group, Kaylee Bickey, also of Park Rapids, said Alluvium was not acting aggressively around Gypsy and the other horses.
“He wasn’t really trying to cut her out or anything,” she said. “When we said, ‘Git,’ he got, he went away. He just wanted other horses to be with.”
After their ride, when Gypsy was returned to the corral, Alluvium stayed close by.
Bickey’s recollection of the discussion with the park ranger about Alluvium matched Ringer’s.
“We told the ranger about him, but we never complained. We went to see wild horses. It was probably a top-five experience of my life.”
The riders brought young horses that hadn’t experienced situations like those in the park and reacted more than seasoned horses would have, Bickey said.
“It wasn’t any fault of Alluvium,” she said. “It was our fault for not exposing them to things before just taking them out. Once they had been around him for a little bit, they were fine.”
Ringer, who has ridden horses for 30 years, recalled encounters with dogs, deer and even inanimate objects that spooked horses. “If I would go and eliminate something every time it spooked my horse — that’s just insane,” she said.
Park officials have not given interviews about Alluvium but issued statements.
Park Superintendent Angie Richman said Alluvium was “harassing visitors and visitor’s horses at the horse camp campground. Park staff relocated it once and it found its way back to the camp the next day. This is a nuisance animal that can potentially harm visitors or their animals.”
Park officials have been holding Alluvium in a pen for several weeks “until it can be sold or transferred to a tribal partner or other government agency,” Richman said earlier.
Contributed / Chris Kman
Chris Kman, president of Chasing Horses Wild Horse Advocates, asked park officials to allow Alluvium to stay in the park. He was in his home and acting naturally in the encounter with visiting horses, she said, noting bison are dangerous but remain in the park, apparently even after goring visitors.
By describing the horses as livestock instead of wildlife, a term the park formerly used, park officials are doing a disservice to visitors by making the horses seem tame, Kman wrote in an email to Richman.
In an interview, Kman said it appears Richman is determined to reduce the size of the herd, and Alluvium’s encounter with the mare provided an excuse to get rid of a horse. She said a horse trailer has been parked near the pen where Alluvium is being held, apparently in preparation for transporting him.
Contributed / Gary Kman
Park officials did not directly respond to the points raised by Kman or the account given by Ringer and Bickey that found no fault with Alluvium’s behavior.
“I would adopt him if I could,” Bickey said. “For a wild horse, he was pretty well-behaved.”
Park officials haven’t yet made arrangements for an auction sale of Alluvium.
“We currently do not have any additional details concerning an auction,” Maureen McGee-Ballinger, deputy park superintendent, said in an email. “When/if there is an auction, the details will be announced.”
Today in History revisits the Friday, March 29, 1940, edition of the Grand Forks Herald and highlights a story of the organization of the Minn-Kota Electric Power Co-operative.
New N. W. REA Unit Organizes
Organization of the Minn-Kota Electric Power Co-operative, to direct farm electricity units in Minnesota and North Dakota counties along the Red river was completed at a meeting here Thursday night.
P. J. Donelly, Grafton, a director of the Nodak co-operative, was named president. Other officers will be S. E. Hunt of Thief River Falls, a director of the Red Lake Rural Electric association; vice president; Victor Edman of Alvarado, Minn., P K and M co-operative, secretary – treasurer; Einar Johnson of Lakota, attorney and A. L. Freeman of Grand Forks, acting superintendent. Engineers will be Ellerby and Co. of St. Paul.
Power co-operative directors who attended were Hugh M. Trowbridge of Comstock, Minn., Red River Valley Electric association; O. P. Refling, Fertile, Minn., Wild Rice Rural Electric co-op; Harry Branigan, Shelvin, Minn., Itasca-Mantrap REA; M. D. Butler, Grand Forks, F. C. Chandler, Whitman, N. D., L. C. Odegard, Buxton, N. D., and Donelly, Nodak Rural Electric co-operative, Hunt and Edman.
Besides the nine directors, those in attendance included George J. Long of Washington, D. C., assistant engineering head of the rural electrification administration; G. B. Ellerbe & Co., engineer, St. Paul; W. T. DePuy, Nodak attorney, Grafton.
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Quinnipiac and North Dakota are playing in the NCAA regional final in the Denny Sanford Premier Center. The winner advances to the NCAA Frozen Four in Las Vegas.
Time: 6 p.m.
Place: Denny Sanford Premier Center, Sioux Falls, S.D.
TV: ESPN2 (GF Ch. 26/621 HD).
Stream:
Watch ESPN.
Radio:
The Fox (96.1 FM).
UND 1, Quinnipiac 0 — Jack Kernan 10 (Will Zellers) 6:03. Quinnipiac defenseman Braden Blace attempts to chip a puck out of the zone, but Zellers holds it in and gets it to Kernan along the halfwall. Kernan curls off the wall and into the left circle and snaps a puck five-hole on Bobcats goalie Dylan Silverstein for his 10th goal of the season.
UND 2, Quinnipiac 0 — Cody Croal 10 (Tyler Young, Abram Wiebe) 8:13. Kernan rims a puck around the wall to Wiebe at the left point. Wiebe fires a shot toward the top of the crease, where Young tries to tip it in. It goes to the top of the crease, where Croal sweeps it between his legs and into the back of the net for his third goal of the regional.
UND 3, Quinnipiac 0 — Jack Kernan 11 (Abram Wiebe) 12:20. Wiebe makes a fantastic play at the blue line to strip the puck from Quinnipiac forward Aaron Schwartz. Kernan picks it up near the left point, circles to the right circle and snaps one past Silverstein. The Bobcats yank Silverstein after the goal and put in Matej Marinov.
Forwards
26 Dylan James—29 Ellis Rickwood—9 Will Zellers
7 Mac Swanson—17 Cole Reschny—21 Ben Strinden
19 Cody Croal—15 Jack Kernan—14 Tyler Young
22 David Klee—20 Cade Littler—24 Josh Zakreski
Defenseman
4 Jake Livanavage—2 Bennett Zmolek
25 Abram Wiebe—6 E.J. Emery
16 Andrew Strathmann—18 Keaton Verhoeff
13 Sam Laurila
Goaltenders
35 Jan Špunar
31 Gibson Homer
1 Zach Sandy
Not in lineup: F Ollie Josephson (inj), F Anthony Menghini, F Dalton Andrew, D Jayden Jubenvill, D Ian Engel
Forwards
27 Andon Cerbone—28 Chris Pelosi—11 Aaron Schwartz
20 Mason Marcellus—12 Markus Vidicek—19 Ethan Wyttenbach
23 Antonin Verreault—14 Victor Czerneckianair—10 Tyler Borgula
18 Anthony Cipollone—26 Matthew Lansing—8 Matthew McGroarty
Defensemen
15 Graham Sward—6 Charlie Leddy
7 Elliott Groenewold—22 Braden Brace
25 Nate Tivey—3 William Gilson
5 Brady Schultz
Goaltenders
29 Dylan Silverstein
33 Matej Marinov
31 Samuel Scopa
Not in lineup: F Jeremy Wilmer (inj), F Alex Power, F Ben Riche, D Logan McCutcheon
Referees — Andrew Bruggeman and Sam Hernandez (Big Ten)
Linesmen — Sam Shikowsky and Tommy George (Big Ten)
Supervisor — Steve Piotrowski (Big Ten)
UND is using the same lines as Thursday’s regional game against Merrimack. . . Quinnipiac is using the same lines as Thursday’s game against Providence. . . The Fighting Hawks are looking to go to their first NCAA Frozen Four since 2016, when the program won its eighth national championship. . . Quinnipiac is looking to return to the Frozen Four for the first time since 2023, when the school won its first national title. . . UND and Quinnipiac have met twice in the NCAA tournament. UND beat the Bobcats in the 2015 NCAA regional in Fargo and in the 2016 NCAA national championship game.
Schlossman has covered college hockey for the Grand Forks Herald since 2005. He has been recognized by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the top beat writer for the Herald’s circulation division four times and the North Dakota sportswriter of the year twice. He resides in Grand Forks. Reach him at bschlossman@gfherald.com.
FARGO — Medical professionals in North Dakota are learning how they can better treat brain injuries. The North Dakota Brain Injury Network held its annual Mind Matters conference on Friday, March 27.
The event educates professionals, caregivers and families about care for individuals with brain injuries. Several speakers presented during the conference, highlighting new research and trends. Some people who experienced their own injury also spoke, which organizers say can help attendees learn more about life with a brain injury.
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