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 […]
Comment Period on Spruce Draft Environmental Assessment, BHNF originally ended on Monday, Sept 25th. The Forest Service later (on 10/2/23) granted a 4 day extension till Friday October 6th. Go to Oct. 6th calendar day alert for info on that. Comments are e-mailed to Matthew Daily for later (10/6/23) deadline Matthew.Daily@usda.gov. https://phas-wsd.org/event/spruce-comment-deadline-is-extended/ Link to view […]
Black Hills Group of Sierra Club is hosting a program on protecting the Rapid Creek watershed from mining and exploration -- Thursday , Oct 28th beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Outdoor Campus - West in Rapid City. Suzanne Martley (an environmental attorney) will lead the discussion. This is a hybrid meeting ....Suzanne will be online by 6:15 […]
Biden's White House's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a proposed rule-making on 31 July 2023 to implement Congress’s changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) recently enacted in the Fiscal Responsibility Act & also to complete Phase 2 of its' rewrite of Trump's rewrite of NEPA. The proposed rule is open for public […]
The City of Rapid City’s Standing Committee on Sustainability is honored to sponsor The Drive Electric EV Car Event that will be held again this year in Rapid City in conjunction with the Cruiser Car Show to be held at Main Street Square from 2-6 pm on Saturday, September 30, 2023. The EVs will be on the […]
Just before midnight MT is the legal deadline to send written comments to the SDGFP. Even though it is illegal when meeting occurs in MT location, SDGFP's Artificial Intelligence may cut off the comment period at midnight CT. If they don't include your comment sent before midnight 11:59 MT, it is illegal and you can […]
Below are the Water Management Board meetings tentatively scheduled for the remainder of 2023. October 4-5, 2023 December 6-7, 2023 Please check the Boards and Commissions Portal a week to 10 days prior to the scheduled meeting date to confirm. Here is the link to the portal: https://boardsandcommissions.sd.gov/Meetings.aspx?BoardID=106
SD Game, Fish and Parks Commission October Meeting was in Deadwood and occurred on Thursday 5th and Friday the 6th of October 2023. It will be hybrid and Zoom links will be available. More details will be posted later, but as it gets close to the meeting - for details watch: https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/information/ Written comments are due […]
Comment deadline on Spruce project was extended until Friday, October 06, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. MT. This is because the webpage for the project (including the commenting portal) was not working for part of Friday, all of Saturday and Sunday and part of Monday, when comments were due on Monday the 25th. This was a nation wide […]
Sunday, October 8, 11:00 a.m. Annual Picnic at Steamboat Rock Picnic Area, Nemo Road (18 miles northwest of Rapid City or 3.4 miles southeast of Nemo). There will be a potluck and the annual report. There is plenty of room to park along the closed gate. Potluck picnic – bring a dish to share and bring a chair. […]