Mark McKone, owner and head trainer at MM Equestrian in Dousman, was planning on spending last week training his horses for an upcoming competition.
Instead, he decided not to attend that event, and limited the workload for his 20 horses after smoke from Canadian wildfires led to a statewide air quality advisory.
"A lot of my income comes from traveling and competing," McKone said. "Even if it's not necessarily bad here, if I'm going to Chicago, or Ohio, some of these other places I'm going this summer, if it's (air quality) in a warning level, we won't compete, for sure."
Smoke from the wildfires has been affecting the daily lives of millions of people across thousands of miles. But that smoke, which led to "very unhealthy" and even "hazardous" air quality indexes for portions of the state last week, is also affecting livestock and wildlife across Wisconsin.
Source: wpr.org
Photo Credit: ontario-ministry-of-natural-resources
Categories: Wisconsin, General