The USDA Forest Service welcomes your review and comments on the Spruce VegetationManagement Project, a forest-wide project to treat white spruce (Picea glauca) stands. The Black Hills National Forest announced a scoping document for the “Spruce Vegetation Management Project,” which will involve the logging the largest spruce trees up to 25,000 acres including via 40-acre […]
Nebraska Audubon Crane Activities March 1 to April 7, 2022
March 3-4 SD Game, Fish & Parks Commission meeting in Pierre/Zoom
Topic: PHAS Monthly Members Meetingearly March - Time: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 at 6:30 pm Speaker: Nancy Hilding will lead discussion, meeting to discuss proposed GFP Shooting Complex This meeting has happened - here is the link to the recording on the Zoom Cloud Link to recording of our PHAS meeting on the shooting range: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/fzigSO30UXzwdpBtH-ZffibmOtVavO9AJH2LZJPtGHd-YDCfol2sehJd_LZW0BiB.iYuNRg2LdM8lsVwz […]
The Black Hills Area Botany & Ecology Workshop will beThe afternoon of Thursday, March 17 will be all online (via zoom) and will feature contributed talks.The morning of Friday, March 18 will be online and in-person at the Outdoor Campus West in Rapid City. It will feature a symposium on Climate Resilience and Adaptation and […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) wants public input by Thursday, March 31st 2022 on DOE's plan to design, construct, and build-out a demonstration facility enabling domestic rare earth element (REE) and critical mineral (CM) supply chains . Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), DOE is required to fund a Rare Earth Elements (REE) demonstration facility. The information being […]
Topic: PHAS monthly meetingsTime: Late March meeting , Thursday March 31st, 2022, 6:30 pmSpeaker: Lori Brown of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) on Beaver and Beaver Dam AnalogsTo watch a recording of the meeting - "Riparian Resilience in Western SD Streams” and beaver and beaver dam analogs: https://vimeo.com/695026006 Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85433920233?pwd=QmxYUDMvMGRrNW9yRmVON3VPU0dRZz09 Meeting ID: 854 3392 0233Passcode: 534620One tap mobile+12532158782,,85433920233#,,,,*534620# US (Tacoma)+13462487799,,85433920233#,,,,*534620# […]
It takes a while to review and write ordinances. In addition to Feb 9th hearing, it has also since been heard on February 28th and will be heard again on March 28th, then April 25th, then May 23rd at 9 am before the same Planning Commission. When Mon, , 9am – 1pm Where Commission Chambers, 130 Kansas […]
The 2022 Western South Dakota Hydrology Conference will be held on WednesdayApril 27, 2022 at the Monument (formerly “Rushmore Plaza Civic Center”) in RapidCity. This email serves as an abstract call (speakers and posters), vendor call, and fieldtrip leader call for the 2022 conference. Registration information:Registration information will be available in February 2022 at the […]
Thursday, April 28th, 2022 6:30 pm MT - PHAS Zoom Meeting Update on Mining Threats to the Black Hills Lilias Jarding, Ph.D., Executive Director, Black Hills Clean Water Alliance. There has been a lot of new activity around potential large-scale mining in the Black Hills. There have been three new projects just in April! This presentation […]