Deadline to comment on the Draft Surface Water Quality Integrated Report is Saturday, As I understand it, if you have water quality information on a  SD Surface water, this is your opportunity to send it to DANR so as to be included in the final report. DANR public notice page https://danr.sd.gov/public/default.aspx Public notice:   https://danr.sd.gov/officeofwater/surfacewaterquality/pn/2024IRPublicNoticeletter1.pdf […]

REPORT AFTER MEETING Results of the Commission meeting (now past) The Commission killed the petition from the hound hunters to expand hound hunting to the rest of the Black Hills outside of Custer State Park.  This will temporarily good news, is not long term good news. A bunch of the Commissioners want to expand hound […]

Friday s the deadline to register with Wyoming Game & Fish to testify at their Commission meeting Sept 12-13.  Go to Sept 12-13th event posting for details on the meeting An hour has been designated for the presentation about the off-schedule mountain lion season proposals in Wyoming on Wednesday September 13th in Gillette WY. The […]

A $1m EPA Climate Pollution Reduction planning grant has been awarded to Rapid City, but Mayor Salamun was going to send it to the City Council to have them vote on whether or not to accept the funding and move forward (the City Council already approved it on 4/3/23 so this is a "request to […]

Advisory Board Meeting Forest Service Office – Mystic Ranger District Office 8221Mount Rushmore Road, Rapid City, SD 57702 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – September 13, 2023 For agenda visit: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd1137280.pdf

  Recording of a radio interview of Mary Zimmerman/Beth Burkhart-(of the Norbeck Society)  on "Black Hills in the Balance" - SDPB https://listen.sdpb.org/rural-life-and-history/2023-09-20/black-hills-in-the-balance

Tentative BME meeting schedule for the remainder of 2023: September 21, 2023 October 19, 2023 November 16, 2023 Please check the Boards and Commissions portal a week to 10 days prior to the scheduled meeting to confirm & get exact start & end times.  Here is the link for the BME:

Under direction of the Biden administration BLM is planning to do long overdue changes to its' oil and gas leasing rules. Bonding rates and rules haven’t been updated in 60 years and are insufficient to cover the costs to clean up spills and abandoned wells. New bonding proposals in proposed rule will better protect taxpayers from […]