Climate Watch is Audubon’s biannual community science program that enlists volunteer bird-lovers across North America to tally for twelve target bird species Climate Watch – Summer Season – May 15th-June 15th, 2024 Climate Watch Climate Watch is sponsored by the National Audubon Society (NAS) & takes place during two distinct seasons—winter (January 15-February 15) and summer (May […]
SD Ornithologist Union's Spring Meeting - Custer, SD Custer SD May 31-June 2, 2024, All gatherings will be at the Custer County Annex Building*, 447 Crook St. Custer SD, in the Pine room. For more information: https://sdou.org/SDOU/NextMeeting.aspx Friday evening 5 pm- 7 pm registration/social then: 7pm-8 pm Friday with a presentation ( by well known […]
National Trails Day - is June 1st, Saturday, Many NGOs or state and federal agencies are sponsoring hiking events nationwide. At this web page you can search for an event near you: https://americanhiking.org/national-trails-day/find-an-event/ It finds 6 hikes within 50 miles and 7 hikes within 100 miles of Rapid City We assume there may be some […]
Plant sale event to be held Saturday, June 1, 10 am-3pm at The Snapper's Club in Spearfish, courtesy of Beautify Spearfish. Native plants will be sold. (sales via cash or check only)
Great Plains Native Plant Society Field Trip Bear Butte/Ft. Meade Area Participants will see most of the plants within the Bear Butte Historic Preserve, which contains a part of the grounds of the historic Ft. Meade that is currently being archeologically documented. After an introductory presentation by Ross Lamphere of the BBCHP Association, our member […]
Native Plant Road Show, Courtesy of SDSU Native Plant Initiative - Rapid City Sunday, June 2, 10 am - 2 pm at Jolly Lane Greenhouse, Rapid City Native plants will be sold. On Saturday 6/1/24, they will be in Spearfish
Midnight CT is the deadline to send written comments to SDGFP Commission June 2024 Meeting - Act to Protect Raccoons Sunday June 2nd at just before Midnight CT is the deadline to send written comments in to SDGFP for inclusion in the public record of the meeting. If comments are late they go into the […]
Review of Meade County Draft Comprehensive Plan by Planning Commission, Monday June 3rd, 2024, - a public hearing at 2 pm at the Meade County Office Building (Erskine Bldg) on 1300 Sherman St. In the earlier spring (April 1st, 2024) , the Planning Commission moved forward a Draft Comprehensive Plan to the Meade County Commission […]
SD Game, Fish & Parks Commission's June Hybrid Meeting - June 6th-7th 2024, in Yankton, at the NFAA Easton Yankton Archery Center SDGFP Commission continued with its' normal meeting policies, -- folks can testify for 3 minutes at 2 pm CT in person or by Zoom or phone. Visit this web page closer to the […]
Open House by the Great Plains Plant Society in Hermosa at their botanical garden Friday & Saturday - June 7 & 8, 9:am–4:pm Great Plains Botanic Garden is a short distance east of Hwy 79 five miles south of Hermosa SD. The physical address is 14229 Windbreak Road, Hermosa, SD. From Hwy 79 go five […]
Monday, June 10th, 6:30 pm MT by Zoom, PHAS meeting on the BLM's proposed amendments to their Resource Management Plans for the greater sage grouse. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85433920233?pwd=QmxYUDMvMGRrNW9yRmVON3VPU0dRZz09 Meeting ID: 854 3392 0233 Passcode: 534620 --- PHAS meetings are recorded and the link to the meeting recordings are posted to our recordings web page, normally […]
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 […]
Sundance, WY, May 10, 2024 – The Black Hills National Forest is proposing to reduce fire hazard in the Moskee area of the Black Hills in Crook County, WY. High fuel loading in this area poses a risk to surrounding lands and communities. The Forest Service is proposing to treat up to 1,304 acres […]
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 […]
There is actually no specific day for the deadline to comment to ND on their furbearer regulations except - "late June", so I just picked June 25th, for late June. The Department sends recommendations to the Governor who issues a proclamation about the hunting seasons in mid July. ND has a 365 day (year long) […]
This is an annual Norbeck Society event - the 15th year it happens. June 29th. 9:30 am Prepare for several hours of easy walking with many stops. Bring your own snacks, lunch, and beverages, sunscreen, good hiking footwear, and plant books. Distance 1 – 5 miles. No dogs please. Dugout Gulch is a Black Hills […]
The Deadline is before July 1st. Norbeck Society friends and members are strongly encouraged to go to Thriving Communities Initiative - Black Hills Area Community Foundation (bhacf.org) and vote for “Beautiful Black Hills” which, if chosen, gives the Norbeck Society an avenue to pursue a grant. The Norbeck Society steering committee has met with the […]
Decision Memo was signed on July 11th, 8 days after close of comment period. file:///Users/mac/Downloads/Decision_Memo_Signed_AntelopeCanyon20240711.pdf Quotes from FS scoping packet: "The Antelope Canyon project area is located approximately 15 miles south of the city of Custer, SD, and 7 miles northwest of Hot Springs, SD. The eastern boundary of the project area borders Wind Cave […]