Federal money to prevent Black Hills forest fires left ‘in limbo’
A $5 million program to help private landowners in the Black Hills manage their forest lands and prevent wildfires is on hold ...
Reducing wildfires, pine beetles in the Black Hills: forest management resolution clears ...
The resolution states without more forest management, the Black Hills will have wildfires with greater severity and more pine beetle epidemics.
Rounds pushing for more timber production in Black Hills National Forest
Senior Forester Adam Gahagan of Timber West Manufacturing says the timber industry has been struggling with the current outputs out of the Black Hills National Forest. “There used to be a sawmill that ...
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South Dakota House committee passes resolution that would establish Black Hills committee
A new resolution, HCR 6010, aims to create a committee to oversee development in the Black Hills and protect the area from ...
SD delegation focused on Black Hills timber targets; Thune, Rounds follow party lines on ...
South Dakota's entire congressional delegation sent a letter this week to Brooke Rollins, the new secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, to increase the timber sale program targets ...
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Native Americans and Mount Rushmore
(Some of the area in which Rushmore stands was eventually purchased by the state of South Dakota and developed as Custer State Park; the rest was part of the Black Hills National Forest.) ...