The SD Ornithologist Union spring meeting will be held near Milbank, SD at "Abby on the Hill" in Marvin, SD. It is on the weekend of 5/19/2023-5/21/2023. The spring SDOU meeting focuses more on field trips. Go to their web site for more details and the schedule:. https://sdou.org/SDOU/NextMeeting.aspx
2023 is the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act - which President Nixon signed into law on December 28th of 1973. Endangered Species Day is set by Congress to be the third Friday in May. This our 16th year of having a multi-group sponsored Endangered Species Day Celebration in Rapid City area. This will […]
Tuesday, May 23rd is World Turtle Day Visit Wikipedia former info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle_Day The False Map Turtle is listed as threatened on SD's list of threatened & endangered species: https://www.sdherps.org/species/graptemys_pseudogeographica
2023 NAFWS Great Plains Regional Conference May 24- 25, 2022 in Deadwood, SD The 2023 Great Plains Regional Conference will be held Wednesday ,May 24- Thursday, 25, 2023, in Deadwood, SD at the Deadwood Lodge. May 23rd and 26th are reserved as travel days. Make room reservations as soon as possible to receive a special […]
Bumble Bee Atlas Training at SD Game, Fish & Park's Outdoor Campus West (OCW), Rapid City, SD, May 31st. We actually don't know the start & end time of training on 5/31 - but OCW staff says the sponsors reserved the room from 8 am to 5 pm. Help create a nationwide atlas of bumble […]
Rapid City Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America will be having a "Save Our Streams Creek Freaks" training this year! The trainings will be for one day and you have an option of going on May 31st or June 1st from 8 am to 4 pm. The event is at SDGFP's Outdoor Campus […]
ACTION NEEDED - SPRING/SUMMER 2023 Below find a link to a nationwide petition about protecting beavers on federal public (which is the short) and a longer more detailed letter (8 pages) signed by many environmental groups on same topic. Please sign the petition & read the letter. Sign Nationwide Petition on Beaver to […]
National Trails Day is a day set aside to celebrate America’s trail systems and their countless supporters and volunteers. For more information about this national event, visit www.americanhiking.org. Several SD state parks will be hosting trail-related events that day. SD GFP Custer State Park's Little Devils Tower Hike: https://gfp.sd.gov/events/detail/2366/ The Black […]
PHAS networking meeting on predators & "varmints" in SD & nearby states/provinces. at 6 pm MT 6/4/23 This meeting is by Zoom & is a working strategy meeting where attendees discuss tasks, goals & objectives to create change in management of predators & "varmints". There are no formal presentations likely. People can bring up predators […]
Submit written comments on-line before Sunday night at midnight CT When the Commission has public hearings on Thursdays (which they normally do) the deadline to submit written comments is Sunday at midnight of the time zone of the meeting. Go to the our alert on the June meetings for details - https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-game-fish-and-parks-commission-meeting-june-2023/ Written comments can […]
