The Black Hills National Forest, Northern Hills Ranger District (NHRD), has announced the availability of the draft environmental assessment (EA) for the Zeppelin Forest Health Project (Zeppelin Project), located west of Piedmont, SD, north of Dalton Lake, east of Vanocker Canyon Highway, and south of Elk Creek. You can view the draft EA on the […]
Meade County Commission will reconsider the Meade County Comprehensive Plan with a hearing before the County Commission at at 10 am Tuesday June 11th. Nancy Hilding for PHAS attended the 6/3/24 hearing before the Planning Commission and testified to failure to having goals and policies to protect historic and cultural properties, in its' land use Goals […]
Deadline to comment on BLM's greater sage grouse RMP amendment's DEIS (3 volumes) is June 13th, 2024. They are giving us 90 days. The time of day deadline is mountain time, just before midnight on the 13th. Watch for updates on the time zone the midnight deadline will fall in. The US Geological Survey found […]
Wharf Ground Water Discharge Plan Renewal and Water Quality Variance review- Intervenor filing deadline Wharf Ross Valley Ground Water Discharge Plan Renewal and Water Quality Variance review. Lawrence County 6/17/2024 Quote from DANR: "Any interested person may file a petition to initiate a contested case and request a hearing on the Ground Water Discharge Plan renewal […]
Wednesday June 19th, at 1 pm CT, is the deadline to submit written comments on Nebraska Game and Park's proposed rule changes to its' mt. lion seasons in Pine Ridge, Niobrara and Wildcat Hills Units. Go to our events calendar web page for Thursday June 20- Friday 21 for more information. Thursday/Friday are the dates […]
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission has a June 20-21st 2024 meeting at Ogallala RESULTS: https://outdoornebraska.gov/about/press-events/news/commissioners-approve-a-2025-mountain-lion-season/ Meeting at Petrified Wood Gallery, 418 E 1st St.,Ogallala, NE, 69153 Visit this web site when close to the date for the agenda. At this site the Commission agenda is posted online before each meeting. and minutes from previous meetings […]
This year’s annual GPCN Steering Committee Meeting will take place on June 20-21 at Heartland Ranch in southeastern Colorado. Heartland is a 43,000-acre nature preserve protected by the Southern Plains Land Trust (SPLT). Located 35 miles southwest of Lamar in Bent County, Heartland is home to a growing conservation herd of American bison, as well […]
Documentary shown - "On Common Ground" at the Dahl Fine Arts Center, Rapid City, This movie is a screening of a new documentary about regenerative farming. Event presented by Isaak Walton League, supported by Citizen's Climate Lobby, Black Hills Environmental Protection. Social at 6 pm, movie at 7 pm MT. We are not sure how […]
DANR develops an annual ambient air monitoring network plan which is a review of the ambient air monitoring network each year. The 2024 Annual Plan is open for public comment through June 22, 2024. Link to proposed Ambient Air Monitoring Annual plan, https://danr.sd.gov/Environment/AirQuality/AirMonitoring/docs/Annual%20Plan%202024.pdf Link to submit comments https://danr.sd.gov/public/comment.aspx?d_comment=06/22/2024&name=South%20Dakota%27s%202024%20Ambient%20Air%20Monitoring%20Annual%20Plan&pntype=aq_nplan&description=DANR%20develops%20an%20annual%20ambient%20air%20monitoring%20network%20plan%20which%20is%20a%20review%20of%20the%20ambient%20air%20monitoring%20network%20each%20year.%20%20The%202024%20Annual%20Plan%20is%20open%20for%20public%20comment%20through%20June%2022,%202024. We are not sure of the time […]
Quote from DANR public notice: https://danr.sd.gov/Press/docs/publicnotices/MineralsMining/BPMSecurityNOF2.pdf "Bentonite Performance Minerals, LLC, 554 US Highway 212, Belle Fourche, South Dakota 57717, hereby gives notice that an application for a permit to mine bentonite has been filed with the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources for its proposed Security Project. ... The application is available for review […]