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R APID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - The Buzzards Roost area and trail system in the Black Hills near Hisega will be closed Monday ...
It’s not surprising that a guy with a gold-gilded New York City apartment would want to decorate a forest with 250 statues.
The Forest Service spent the last years doubling the amount of field data it normally collects on the condition of the Black Hills National Forest. The findings, produced by the service’s Forest ...
The Black Hills National Forest Service has currently set a goal of 175,000 CCF in timber sales by the end of the 2021 fiscal year in September, ...
Driving into the Black Hills National Forest, as the road gains elevation, raindrops hitting the windshield slow down and start swirling in the air. It’s snowing in late April, a welcome sight ...
Get Outside Black Elk Peak, the highest peak between the Rocky Mountains and the Swiss Alps. Photo courtesy of Travel South Dakota. If you leave Denver early in the morning, you will make it to Black ...
PIERRE, S.D. — The Black Hills forest could be cut clean of "suitable sawtimber" in 60 years, if logging keeps at its current pace and the forest's mortality rate remains low, report the ...
Craig Bobzien, the man in charge of the Black Hills National Forest for the past 11 years, has a “barrel list” of trips and projects for his retirement.
S.D. forest waits its turn on summer wildfires. By Marc Heller | 07/20/2021 01:34 PM EDT . The Black Hills region eyes wildfires farther west, wondering when its own bouts with fire will return.
Black Hills National Forest Fire Management Officer Dean Berger compares the 2000 Jasper Fire to a "time-released nuclear explosion." "If it had gone off in a split second, it would have killed ...
Did you know that South Dakota forest products companies directly employ about 1,500 people in the Black Hills region and pay more th ...