Native American Fish and Wildlife Society 2025 Annual National Conference in Wyoming

The 2025 Native American Fish and Wildlife Society Annual National Conference, hosted by the Eastern Shoshone & Northern Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation, will be held from May 12 to 15, 2025 at the Wind River Hotel and Casino in Riverton, WY. Agenda: https://www.nafws.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/2025-National-Conference-Agenda.-DRAFT-4.24.25.pdf Early Bird Registration Fees (Until March 28, 2025): Non-member – […]

Deadline to comment on SDGFP proposed Beaver Action Plan

Deadline to comment on SDGFP proposed Beaver Action Plan. This plan provides for direction on beaver management in the Black Hills, allowing for a beaver trapping/hunting moratorium until various population and distribution goals are reached, at which point hunting season on private land will be reintroduced and then later with even more  increased distribution and […]

Deadline to Intervene in Project to explore for uranium above Craven Canyon

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT COMMENT OR INTERVENE IS MAY 14.   Deadline to submit letters to South Dakota DANR’s “Minerals, Mining, and Superfund Program” to intervene, comment, and/or push for a change of venue to Fall River County are due in Pierre no later than Wednesday, May 14th, 5:00 PM CST or post marked on that […]

PHAS May 2025 Board meeting

PHAS May 2025 Board meeting, 6:30 pm Wed. 5/14/25 Contact Nancy for info. 605-787-2806, phas.wsd@rapidnet.com, Open to members -  others by invitation

SD GFP Parks Free Weekend: Free Entry & No Fishing License Required (May 16–18)

SD GFP Parks Free Weekend: Free Entry & No Fishing License Required (May 16–18)   This Friday through Sunday (May 16–18, 2025), you can visit any South Dakota State Park for free. No entrance license needed! You can also fish without a license all weekend long throughout South Dakota! That’s right: it’s the perfect time […]

SD Ornithologist Union Biennial Spring Meeting

SD Ornithologist Union Biennial Spring Meeting This will be a tri-state joint meeting with our fellow birders from Iowa and Nebraska, hosted the weekend of May 16-18 at the Salvation Army Western Plains Camp in South Sioux City, NE.   There is a fantastic array of field trips scheduled in all three states, a Friday […]

Endangered Species Day Celebration

Friday, May 16th, 2025 Every year we have an Endangered Species Day Celebration, where multiple groups sponsor presentations on federal and state listed endangered or threatened (T & E) species. In recent years it has been a Zoom meeting.   It is normally from 6 pm to 9 pm on the eve of Endangered Species Day, […]

Extended Deadline to Comment on Exploration for Graphite Mine BHNF

May 9th  electronically sent before midnight or postmarked , is the deadline for scoping comments on. THIS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED A WEEK to Friday the 16th Pete Lien and Sons Rochford Mineral Exploratory Drilling Project. https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=67838 The scoping comment period for this project is April 9, 2025 - May 9, 2025. Project web page and […]

International Bird Day Celebration for Western SD – Bird Bash at Bear Butte

International Bird Day Event Celebration for Western SD This event is at Bear Butte State Park - Bear Butte State Park Education Center, Sturgis, SD, 8 am - 3 pm MT It is organized/sponsored by Audubon Great Plains, American Bird Conservancy, Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, Black Hills Raptor Center, The Nature Conservancy, SDGFP, NRCS, […]