The Mystic District of the Black Hills National Forest has initiated public scoping for the Triple R Vegetation Management Project. Comment deadline would be 8/19/23, but that is on a Saturday, so it will be Monday 8/21/23. Send to : <comments-rocky-mountain-black-hills-mystic@usda.gov> Scoping documents can be found at the following web address: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/blackhills/?project=64487
Prairie Hills Audubon Society Annual Meeting - Hybrid This meeting will start at 6 pm MT on Thursday, August 31st. It will be hybrid >> by Zoom & face-to-face at the Piedmont American Legion Post 311 - 101 Pine St, Piedmont, SD 57769. The Post is located at the corner of Sturgis Rd and […]
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 […]
Volunteer to help build beaver dam analog w/ BHNF Prairie Hills Audubon Society has a major campaign to help beaver recover in the Black Hills and other parts of SD. We support building of beaver dam analogs and hope to find a bunch of members and friends to help with this project and learn about […]
Commission Meeting September 12-13, 2023 Gillette, WY The public comment period for Chapters 2, 28, and 42 (cougars) closes at 5:00 PM on August 4, 2023. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Get-Involved/Public-Meetings Commission meeting at CAM-PLEX (Frontier Hall in Wyoming Center), 1635 Reata Drive, Gillette. Open session on Tuesday begins at about 1:30 pm and at 8 am on Wednesday. You can testify remotely by […]
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
