The man who drowned in a kayak accident Saturday in the Bad River about 70 miles southwest of Fort Pierre has been identified as 45-year-old Kevin Honness.
Honness was a senior field biologist at the Ted Turner Bad River Ranch.
Jones County Sheriff Fred Koester says Honness was in a kayak following two female staffers in a canoe.
The women were about 1 mile ahead of him and waited. They saw a paddle float by and later found the kayak submerged between two trees in the river.
Honness' body was recovered in the kayak.
