Iditarod changes dropped dog transport standards following Friday death

Scott Smith at the checkpoint in Galena. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media)The Iditarod Trail Committee said it’s changing protocols for how it transports dropped sled dogs after an one died Friday while in the organization’s care. An early necropsy on the dog showed it had overheated, dying of hyperthermia while on board a plane.
Scott Smith is lighting a crumpled pile of straw to get a fire going in his cooker. His team is spread out on straw in the warm sunshine