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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Commission Meeting September 12-13, 2023 Gillette, WY The public comment period for Chapters 2, 28, and 42 (cougars) closes at 5:00 PM on August 4, 2023. https://wgfd.wyo.gov/Get-Involved/Public-Meetings Commission meeting at CAM-PLEX (Frontier Hall in Wyoming Center), 1635 Reata Drive, Gillette. Open session on Tuesday begins at about 1:30 pm and at 8 am on Wednesday. You can testify remotely by […]
A $1m EPA Climate Pollution Reduction planning grant has been awarded to Rapid City, but Mayor Salamun was going to send it to the City Council to have them vote on whether or not to accept the funding and move forward (the City Council already approved it on 4/3/23 so this is a "request to […]
Advisory Board Meeting Forest Service Office – Mystic Ranger District Office 8221Mount Rushmore Road, Rapid City, SD 57702 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – September 13, 2023 For agenda visit: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd1137280.pdf
Recording of a radio interview of Mary Zimmerman/Beth Burkhart-(of the Norbeck Society) on "Black Hills in the Balance" - SDPB https://listen.sdpb.org/rural-life-and-history/2023-09-20/black-hills-in-the-balance
Tentative BME meeting schedule for the remainder of 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:
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 […]