Comment Deadline on BHNF's Shotgun Timber sale was Monday, August 14th, 2023 The USDA Forest Service is conducting an analysis of the Shotgun forest management project. The project is on Bearlodge Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest, in three locations in the west-central Bear Lodge Mountains and northwestern Black Hills. The proposed action would […]
MKW - Mni Ki Wakan Summit - Indigenous Water Decade, - Theme: Indigenous Water Justice, Global Collaboration & Dismantling Water Colonialism. On August 15-17, the Mni Ki Wakan Summit will be held in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, at the Holiday Inn conference space (505 North Fifth St, Rapid City, SD 57701). Breakfast, lunch, […]
It's Rapid City's 3rd Annual 5k Run/Walk for Clean Water and is being held on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at 8:00 am (MT). This special event is held to have some fun and laughs, meet new people, get some sunshine, and enjoy the beautiful, life-flowing Rapid Creek - Water Is Life. This event also helps bring awareness about the need to […]
Tentative BME meeting schedule for the remainder of 2023: August 17, 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:
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 […]
