Events

SD Advocacy Network for Women is doing a training series on the SD legislature Did you miss the January 7th video conferencing presentation?  Here’s your link to the recording of Betty Oldenkamp’s session on “How to Use the LRC Website and MyLRC+” It is about an hour long. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11WzjCEkgh4oAsQYB5xvT666JiA_Qtfqe?usp=drive_link  

Sunday night just before midnight CT is the deadline to send written comments to SDGFP Commission for their January 9-10, 2025 meeting. Go to our event calendar for January 9-10 to learn more about the upcoming meeting.   The Commission normally meets on the first Thursday of the month, unless holidays interfere (they normally skip […]

Meeting at which organizers of referendum on Lawrence County Zoning changes (to put Conditional Use Permits (CUPs)  under authority of Board of Adjustments, not the Commission)  will speak. An informational meeting is being held this Thursday (1/9) at the VFW in Spearfish starting at 5:30pm.  The VFW is located at 3102 E Fairgrounds Loop - […]

     Sundance, Wyo., — The Black Hills National Forest is proposing treatments on National Forest land eight miles northwest of Sundance, WY, and eight miles southeast of Huelett, WY through commercial timber harvest, small-tree thinning, mastication, tree planting, watershed improvements, and prescribed fire. The Fort project area includes Blacktail Creek, Lytle Creek, Taylor Divide, Hershey […]

SD Advocacy Network for Women is hosting a series of webinars in January 2025 on how to engage with the legislature Legislative Essentials,-,All you need to know to increase your advocacy impact is at your fingertips in the three-part Legislative Essentials training series.  Each session is one hour long and begins at 7:00 PM Central and […]

This is the date the National Audubon Society will start and also will have announced its' rules for its' 2025 photography competition. The contest is open to photography and video submissions From January 15th  until March 5, 2025 at 12 p.m. (noon) U.S. Eastern Time; 11 a.m. CST; 10 a.m. MST; and 9 a.m. PST. […]

March for Democracy, January 18th, 10 am -12 am, Meet at the Bandshell in Memorial Park off Fifth St and Omaha, March begins at 10:15 am MT  - for about a 1 mile walk Guest Speakers TBA Signs are encouraged - promoters say:  "Stand for Something Rather Than Being Against Something"

Sierra Club meeting on the 2025 legislative session and environmental bills   The Black Hills Group of the South Dakota Sierra Club is hosting a program with Seth Tupper, Editor in Chief of South Dakota Searchlight, at 6 p.m., Thursday, January 23, 2025 at the Outdoor Campus West. Tupper will speak on environment topics in […]

March for Democracy Rescheduled Date is  Saturday Jan 25th The March for Democracy, scheduled for previous week was postponed due to weather. It will be held  Saturday, Jan 25, at 10am.  Meet at the Rapid City Memorial Park band shell at 10am. March begins at 10:15 am MT- approximately 1 mile walk. Signs encouraged, - organizers suggest […]

Webinar on Keystone Effects of Prairie Dog Ecosystem on Grassland Birds at 12 pm MST For info on webinar: https://plainsconservation.org/keystone-effects-of-prairie-dogs-on-grassland-birds-current-knowledge-and-future-directions/ "Keystone species are central to the ecology and conservation of grassland birds. But although the role of fire and bison has been well-studied, less is known about how prairie dogs affect grassland birds. In this […]

Prairie Hills Audubon Society (PHAS) Our  members Zoom Meeting January  2025 Wednesday, January 29th, 6:30 pm MT Joshua Lefers and other Audubon Great Plains  staff will be talking about National Audubon Society's programs in SD, ND and NE.  The Audubon Great Plains staff will update us on National Audubon Society’s  (NAS)  "working lands” program and  National […]