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SUMMARY:Deadline to comment to SD DOT on the planned rebuild of Highway 85
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to comment to SD DOT on the planned rebuild of Highway 85 from Cheyenne Crossing to Wyoming border is Sept 4th\, 2026 \n  \nHwy. 85 Cheyenne Crossing to Wyo. Line project: https://dot.sd.gov/ushighway85towy \nQuestions or comment to the SD DOT about Hwy. 85 project: Mark.Malone@state.sd.us \nDavid Miller is one of the people organizing opposition to the project or concerns to mitigate it. \nDavid Miller: dvdm4321@gmail.com. Here is a link to David Miller’s flyer. https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/Highway-85-flyer-7.20.26.pdf \nThis is not written by PHAS\, we have concerns about the project and sent in a comment letter. If you want a copy of that\, ask Nancy at nhilshat@rapidnet.com. \n 
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/deadline-to-comment-to-sd-dot-on-the-planned-rebuild-of-highway-85/
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SUMMARY:Deadline to submit written  comments for SDGFP Sept Commission meeting
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to submit written comments for SDGFP Sept Commission meeting is Sunday night just before midnight Central Time.  You can attend the Commission meeting on the 10th by Zoom\, teleconference or in person in Winner. \nWRITTEN — due Sunday\, September 6\, 2026\, before midnight Central Time. Submit at https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/. Comments must include your full name and city of residence to enter the public record. \nThursday\, September 10\, 2026\, at the public hearing. You get three minutes to testify on each rule change and three minutes at the open forum. The meeting is at Winner\, but you can testify by Zoom or teleconference without leaving home. Connection details and the agenda are posted at gfp.sd.gov/commission/information closer to the date. \nInformation on the issues is in our July  Commission notice on the rule making proposals that are being finalized in Sept. \nOf concern to us is the proposal to delist the interior least tern and eskimo curlew (delist from the State of SD’s T & E list)
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/deadline-to-submit-written-comments-for-sdgfp-sept-commission-meeting/
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SUMMARY:SD GFP Commission September Meeting -Sept 10th-11th\, Hybrid Winner and Zoom
DESCRIPTION:SD GFP Commission September Meeting will be Sept 10th-11th at Winner and by Zoom \nVisit this site closer to the meeting for the Agenda and Commission Book. https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/information/ \nChanges to the States list of Threatened and Endangered Species are proposed…that would be delisting the Interior Least Tern and the Eskimo Curlew and some changes to the delisting objectives for some species.  Go to July meeting to view proposals in the Commission book. Proposals from July will be finalized in September. \nWritten comments are due the Sunday before the Thursday before midnight Central Time – https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/. \nYou can attend  by Zoom and testify by Zoom or phone.
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-gfp-commission-september-meeting-sept-10th-11th-hybrid-winner-and-zoom/
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SUMMARY:Deadline to submit applications to serve on the Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to submit applications to serve on the Black Hills Forest Advisory Board \n  \nThe Black Hills National Forest is seeking nominees for the Black Hills Resource Advisory Committee (RAC). \nBlack Hills National Forest is looking for South Dakota residents— including citizens\, locally elected officials\, Tribal representatives\, and special interest group representatives —to serve on this important committee. \nApplications are due Sept. 11\, 2026 at the Black Hills National Forest Supervisor’s Office in Custer\, SD. \nThe RAC recommends projects funded through Title II of the Secure Rural Schools and Self Determination Act\, supporting fish and wildlife habitat\, natural resource restoration\, and community benefit projects on or near the Forest. \nNew members will serve four-year terms and represent one of three categories: \n\nCommunity and industry interests\nEnvironmental and recreation organizations\nElected officials\, Tribal representatives\, educators\, and the public-at-large\n\n  \nHow to Apply: \nSubmit a completed AD 755 form and a resume to: \nBlack Hills National Forest\, Attn: Todd Butler \n1019 N. Fifth Street\, Custer\, SD 57730 \nOr email: todd.butler@usda.gov \nThe AD 755 form is available at: https://www.usda.gov/…/ad-755-advisory-committee… \nFor questions\, contact Todd Butler at todd.butler@usda.gov or 605-673-9301. \nWe are not sure of the time-of-day for the deadline\, so we put COB\, but it might be midnight
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/deadline-to-submit-applications-to-serve-on-the-black-hills-forest-advisory-board/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260921T213000
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SUMMARY:Original comment deadline for Trumps proposed revocation of the 2001 Roadless Rule (deadline extended to 10/6/26)
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Hills Audubon Society — Action Alert\nThe Roadless Rule Is on the Chopping Block \nUSDA proposes to erase road and logging protections on roughly 45 million acres of national forest — including inventoried roadless areas here on the Black Hills National Forest. \nTHE ORIGINAL COMMENT DEADLINE WAS: Monday\, September 21\, 2026. It got EXTENDED till October 6\, 2026  \nComment here: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869\nFederal Register notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-16965\n91 Fed. Reg. 53\,827 (Aug. 20\, 2026) · RIN 0596-AD66 · Docket FS-2025-0001 \nBy mail: Director\, Ecosystem Management Coordination\, USDA Forest Service\, 201 14th Street SW\, Mailstop 1108\, Washington\, DC 20250-1124. Reference RIN 0596-AD66.\nIs this scoping\, or comment on a rule? It is both at once. \nThis is not scoping. Scoping already happened — USDA published its Notice of Intent on August 29\, 2025 and gave the public 21 days\, drawing more than 220\,000 comment letters on behalf of over 625\,000 individuals and organizations. What is open now is a single combined comment period on three documents released together: the proposed rule itself\, the Draft Environmental Impact Statement\, and the cost-benefit analysis. One comment can address all three\, and comments on the DEIS are the ones that build the NEPA record. This is the last public comment opportunity before a final rule. \nLinks to Prairie Hills Audubon Society’s comments are at the bottom \nRead the documents yourself\nThere are more than three. The core set is the proposed rule\, the 333-page Draft EIS\, and the cost-benefit analysis — but the agency also released a preliminary biological assessment and a Tribal consultation summary\, and both matter. \n\n\n\nProposed rule\n(easiest to read)\nFederal Register HTML version\, with a table of contents and searchable text:\nfederalregister.gov/d/2026-16965\nThe typeset PDF as filed is at public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-16965.pdf\n\n\nAll documents in one place\nThe Forest Service posted the proposed rule\, the Draft EIS\, the cost-benefit analysis and the additional supporting analyses to a public online folder:\nusfs-public.app.box.com/s/gomzq6rruwsds8rw50o3j3g429utj8f6\nThis is the fastest route to the DEIS and the cost-benefit analysis. No login required.\n\n\nRegulations.gov docket\nSame documents plus every comment filed to date\, and the comment form:\nregulations.gov/docket/FS-2025-0001\n\n\nInteractive map\nLayer the three alternatives against roads\, towns\, national forest boundaries and the wildland-urban interface. This is how you find the roadless areas nearest you.\nexperience.arcgis.com/experience/c6122042b4ae46c9b323306912e8b40e\nInstructions for reading the map are in the online folder above.\n\n\nTribal consultation summary\nUSDA’s own summary of what Tribal governments told it:\nfs.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2001-roadless-rule-rescission-summary-analysis.pdf\n\n\nRoadless area boundary data\nFor anyone who wants the actual GIS layer:\nZipped shapefile of 2001 inventoried roadless areas\n\n\nAgency landing page\nfs.usda.gov/managing-land/planning/roadless — the Forest Service hub\, updated as the rulemaking moves\n\n\n\nWhat the proposal would do \nRemove and reserve 36 C.F.R. part 294\, subpart B — the entire 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule — which has barred road construction\, road reconstruction\, and most timber harvest in inventoried roadless areas since January 2001.\nThe 2001 rule covered 58.5 million acres. Because the Idaho and Colorado state-specific roadless rules are unaffected\, roughly 45 million acres across 38–39 states are at stake.\nManagement of inventoried roadless areas would fall to individual forest plans\, where a forest supervisor or regional forester may later amend the plan to allow roading and logging.\nBy the agency’s own numbers in the DEIS and cost-benefit analysis: about 18.2 million acres (45.5%) are lands where forest plans already allow roads and only the Roadless Rule prohibits them; about 4.8 million acres become newly available for timber harvest; recreationists could lose an estimated $6.1 million per year in economic benefit; total annual impacts could exceed $100 million. \nWhy South Dakota should care \nIn our region – the Black Hills National Forest\, Custer-Gallatin National Forest \, Buffalo Gap National Grasslands\, Grand River National Grasslands\, Little Missouri National Grasslands and  Thunder Basin National Grasslands contain inventoried roadless areas.  In the Black  Hills\, roadless and wilderness areas provide protection from the endlessly aggressive logging in the rest of the forest.   Strip roadless areas out and their fate rests entirely on the Black Hills forest plan — a plan already under enormous pressure from timber-target politics\, and Plan Revisions that PHAS has been contesting since the 1997 Plan Revision appeal. Rescission also removes a nationwide backstop at exactly the moment when the Endangered Species Act’s habitat protections are being narrowed (see our companion alert) and when the Forest Service is separately proposing to open more of the forest road and trail system to motorized use.\nThe process itself is worth commenting on \nWhen the Roadless Rule was written in 2000–2001\, the agency allowed 129 days of comment and held more than 400 public meetings; over 1.6 million comments came in. When the Bush administration tried to replace the rule in 2005\, it gave two comment periods\, each over 100 days.\nThis time the agency gave 30 days and has scheduled no public hearings anywhere except Alaska (those are ANILCA section 810 subsistence hearings\, required by a different statute).\nEarthjustice\, on behalf of the Wilderness Society\, Sierra Club and roughly a dozen other groups\, formally asked USDA to extend the comment period to at least 120 days — to December 21\, 2026 or later — and to hold hearings around the country. The agency has responded with an extra two weeks for commenting.\nUSDA’s own Tribal summary reports that the majority sentiment among Tribal governments consulted is opposition\, and that Tribes raised the failure to fulfill trust responsibilities through adequate government-to-government consultation. Several requested alternatives the agency did not analyze\, including a strengthened roadless rule and a Traditional Homelands Conservation Rule. \nPre-written comment tools from national groups \nEach of these lets you add your own words. Please do add them. Form letters get counted; substantive\, personal\, place-specific comments must be individually addressed by the agency and are what hold up in court. If you can only do one thing\, personalize the first paragraph.\nNational Audubon Society act.audubon.org/a/save-roadless-areas-2026\nSierra Club sierraclub.org/save-roadless-rule-protect-our-forests\nNRDC action.nrdc.org/letter/5017-roadless-rule-052826\nDefenders of Wildlife defenders.org/roadless-rule\nNational Wildlife Federation support.nwfactionfund.org/page/101819/action/1\nRoadless.org roadless.org — comment-drafting tool plus a library of two dozen peer-reviewed studies with DOIs and key findings you can cite directly\nEarthjustice statement earthjustice.org/press/2026/conservationists-blast-federal-proposal-to-bulldoze-forestlands \nAlso call your delegation \nThe durable fix is legislative. The Roadless Area Conservation Act (H.R. 3930 / S. 2042\, 119th Congress) would write the Roadless Rule into federal law so that no administration could repeal it by regulation. Ask Senator Thune\, Senator Rounds and Representative Johnson to cosponsor it\, and to press USDA for a longer comment period and public hearings in the West. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.\nCompanion action — the other half of the one-two punch \n=============== \nTwo days after the roadless proposal\, the Forest Service opened a second national rulemaking: a rewrite of the Travel Management Rule (36 C.F.R. parts 212 and 261). It would drop the national “minimization criteria” that currently require the agency to minimize damage to soil\, water\, wildlife and habitat when designating motorized routes\, and replace them with a presumption that existing roads\, trails and areas are open unless the agency documents a reason to close them. It expressly reaches section-line access on the national grasslands. Comments due Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026.\n91 Fed. Reg. 54\,686 (Aug. 24\, 2026) · Docket FS-2026-0100\nFederal Register: federalregister.gov/d/2026-17211 · \nComment: regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2026-0100-0001 \nPrairie Hills Audubon Society · P.O. Box 788\, Black Hawk\, SD 57718 · 605-787-6466 · phas.wsd@rapidnet.com · phas-wsd.org \n+++++++++++++++++++++++++\n======================\nHere are links to the PHAS comments on the Roadless Rule Revocation.\n\nLETTERS\n1)The first is our unique original letter\, \n\n    2) the second a “sign-on” letter from John Muir Project we joined. \n\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/PHAS_Roadless_Rule_Comments_FINAL_V7.pdf \nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/John-Muir.Stop-the-Roadless-Rescission.-Close-the-Loopholes.-5Oct26.pdf\n\n\n\nATTACHMENTS\nThe PHAS original letter had 19 attachments. I have learned that just giving a bibliography or giving links/URLs to references\ndoes not get them into the Administrative Record\, so I have started doing attachments.  I had notice the professional\ngroups doing this and did not understand why…now I do\n\n\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/PHAS_Roadless_Attachments_Submission1_of_3_A01-A08.pdf\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/PHAS_Roadless_Attachments_Submission2_of_3_A09-A14.pdf\nhttps://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/PHAS_Roadless_Attachments_Submission3_of_3_A15-A19.pdf
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/comment-deadline-on-trumps-proposed-revocation-of-the-2001-roadless-rule/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260923T215000
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SUMMARY:Deadline for scoping comments on rewrite of the Forest Service's Travel Management Rule
DESCRIPTION:Deadline for scoping comment on DEIS and rewrite of the Forest Service’s Travel Management Rule\n\nWednesday\, September 23 @ 9:50 pm – 9:59 pm\nHere is a link to our alert on this issue – https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/PHAS_Travel_Management_Rule_Alert_v4.pdf\nScroll down for links to pre-fab letters.\n\n\n\nQuote from the Forest Service at:  https://www.fs.usda.gov/​visit/​recreation/​programs/​off-highway-vehicle-program.\n:\n “The U.S. Forest Service published a notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for amending the existing Travel Management Rule (36 CFR 212). This proposed revision simplifies the regulatory requirements to enhance quicker local decision-making and increases access for motorized vehicles\, including e-bikes\, and other mobility devices. The public can continue to enjoy motorized access to national forests throughout this process. Existing plans and related maps will remain in place until updated by local line officers.”\nFor full description visit the Federal Register Notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/24/2026-17211/travel-management-national-forest-system-lands\n \nTwo days after the Administration proposed the revocation of the 2001 Roadless Rule\, the Forest Service started another national rulemaking: a rewrite of the Travel Management Rule (36 C.F.R. parts 212 and 261). It would drop the national “minimization criteria” that currently require the agency to minimize damage to soil\, water\, wildlife and habitat when designating motorized routes\, and replace them with a presumption that existing roads\, trails and areas are open unless the agency documents a reason to close them. \n\n\n\n\nComments due Wednesday\, September 23\, 2026\,  before midnight Washington DC time\n\n\n\n\n91 Fed. Reg. 54\,686 (Aug. 24\, 2026) · Docket FS-2026-0100\nFederal Register: federalregister.gov/d/2026-17211 · Comment: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2026-0100-0001\nAdditional information\, including the eventual publication of the environmental impact statement and record of decision\, can be found on the following website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/​visit/​recreation/​programs/​off-highway-vehicle-program.\n \nComments must be submitted via one of the following methods:\n\nElectronically (preferred): Through the Federal eRulemaking Portal\, https://www.regulations.gov\, identified by docket number FS-2026-0100. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.\n\n\nMail: Hardcopy letters must be submitted to the Director\, Public Benefits\, 201 14th Street SW\, Public Benefits Office\, Washington\, DC 20250.=\n\n\nWe assume the time-of-day deadline is just before midnight in Washington DC.\n\============\nEarth Justice’s pre-fab comment letter: https://earthjustice.org/action/tell-the-administration-keep-our-forest-protections?ms=web\n========\nHere is a link to sign a petition written by WildEarth Guardians – https://action.wildearthguardians.org/page/102401/petition/1?ea.url.id=5998640\n===========\nHere is a link to their letter: https://pdf.wildearthguardians.org/support_docs/travel-management-rule-letter-rollins-schultz-202609.pdf\nHere is a quote from that letter:\n“The changes outlined in the Forest Service’s Notice of Intent would dismantle core elements of\nthe current protective framework and replace them with an “open unless closed” presumption\,\nessentially creating a motorized free-for-all. The proposal would put greater pressure on land\nmanagers to justify closures and repeatedly reconsider those protections\, eliminate existing\ncriteria for minimizing resource damage and conflicts among recreational uses and with other\npublic land users\, and potentially expand cross-country motorized use through new exemptions.\nThe result would be more uncertainty\, conflict\, and resource damage”\n\n\n\n\n\nQuote from Federal Register Notice:\n\nSUMMARY:\n“The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is initiating an environmental impact statement and rulemaking to revise the Forest Service’s travel management regulations\, 36 CFR part 212. The proposed action would establish a uniform national policy favoring increased access while simplifying regulatory requirements and preserving local decision-making. The proposed access rule would establish a national policy with a presumption that existing roads\, trails\, airfields\, trailheads\, and other access routes and points on National Forest System lands are open to appropriate public use unless closure or restriction is required by applicable law\, valid existing rights\, or another governing instrument\, or supported by specific\, documented and justifiable reasons based on science-based resource conditions\, public safety\, conflicts among uses\, or maintenance and administrative capacity. Commonly available public data sets\, including aerial imagery\, may be used as evidence that a physical route or airfield exists or existed at a time relevant under the definition adopted in the proposed rule\, but would not by themselves establish that the feature is part of the forest transportation system\, that the Forest Service has jurisdiction or sufficient legal access\, or that it is open to a particular public use. The proposed access rule would require annual review of all trails\, roads\, airfields\, trailheads\, and other access routes and points that are closed or highly restricted. The proposed access rule would establish processes and conditions for limited off-route motor vehicle use and other motorized equipment for\, among other things\, downed big-game retrieval\, firewood collection and dispersed camping\, and for designating areas for over-snow and other motorized recreation. \nThe presumption embodied in the national policy would guide future decisions and would not itself change the legal status of any road\, trail\, airfield\, trailhead\, area\, or other access route or point. Any change in lawful use resulting from a vehicle- or use-specific exemption would be limited to the scope and conditions expressly provided in the revised regulations. Existing motor vehicle use designations and maps would remain in effect until revised under the amended regulations. The environmental impact statement will evaluate the impacts of the proposed rule revisions and study alternatives for managing public access\, including the motorized and other forms of access addressed by the proposed rule\, on National Forest System lands in the context of multiple-use resource management. USDA invites written comments on alternatives\, effects\, and relevant information\, studies\, or analyses related to the proposal.”
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/deadline-to-comment-on-rewrite-of-the-forest-services-travel-management-rule/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260926T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260926T180000
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UID:23242-1790434800-1790445600@phas-wsd.org
SUMMARY:"Save Public Lands" Postcard Drive- September 26\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:“Save Public Lands” Postcard Drive- September 26\, 2026 \n3-6 pm Dakota Point Brewing\, Rapid City\, \nSupporting organizations – BH Bike Hub\, Black Hills Environmental Coalition and other groups\, \nFor info. contact Jeff Anderson at jandy5750@gmail.com
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/save-public-lands-postcard-drive-september-26-2026/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260930T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260930T200000
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SUMMARY:Virtual Teach- Wednesday night - "Stop Craven Canyon Uranium Mining" - NDN Collective
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNDN wants your help to protect Craven Canyon\, a sacred site< from destruction. Join NDN Wednesday\, September 30th at 6 pm MT/7 pm CT for a virtual teach-in.  LINK TO REGISTER – https://ndncollective.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n9SehlvST5Gx0fFSC_4C8Q#/registration \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuote from NDN alert:\n“FACTS ABOUT THE PROJECT: \n\nThe Chord Project alone seeks to drill 38 holes up to 750 feet deep.\nViolations of treaty rights of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 and religious freedom apply here.\nThe vibrations from the drilling could risk the petroglyphs fracturing off the canyon wall.\nEach hole is a potential conduit of pollution to the watershed\, forever\n24-hour lights\, noise\, and dust\, 5-7 days a week\nLoss of recreational\, historical\, and ceremonial lands\nClear-cutting of trees and vegetation at each of the 17 drill pads is required for this project\nDrilling mud pits are full of barium\, toxic to all life forms\nIn March 2026\, thousands of people in the Ȟe Sápa submitted public comments in opposition to this uranium mining project.\nArchaeological and paleoenvironmental investigations in Craven Canyon indicate that there is still much to be learned about post-Pleistocene deposits and human activities.\nMuch of the area north of Craven Canyon along what is known as Long Mountain has yet to be surveyed and likely contains additional archeological discoveries.”\n\n\n\n\n\nQuote from NDN alert: \n\n\n\n\n“This Canadian company is coming from thousands of miles away to destroy our earth and threaten our water\, with no consequence to their own homelands – we need to keep them out of our sacred Black Hills\,” said Alex White Plume\, Grandfather and former vice president and president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. “The Black Hills legally belong to the Sioux through a treaty that has never been respected because they thought they could buy us off. Well\, we’re here to say the Black Hills are not for sale. We will continue to fight for Craven Canyon and all our land so we can practice the ceremonies we’ve had since time immemorial.” \nWe don’t know how long the webinar lasts but guessed at 2 hours \nWHO IS NDN? \nThe Protect the Ȟe Sápa Campaign\, of NDN Collective\, fights to protect the land\, water\, and people of our Sacred Black Hills (Ȟe Sápa). In Lakota\, the Black Hills are known as\, “The Center of Everything That Is.” Ȟe Sápa is connected to origins of Lakota people\, who emerged from the sacred site of Wind Cave into the world. Learn more about NDN campaign by visiting the website.– https://ndncollective.org/protect-the-he-sapa/
URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/virtual-teach-wednesday-night-stop-craven-canyon-uranium-mining-ndn-collective/
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