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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - A resolution promoting more forest management in the Black Hills National Forest has cleared the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. The resolution would ...

A timber project in the Black Hills National Forest. (Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service) SPEARFISH, South Dakota. —The owner of a Spearfish sawmill is laying off 50 people and alleges the U.S ...

The 367-acre fire, located within the Black Hills National Forest, is being held in the containment lines. 90 fire personnel from South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Wisconsin, and Colorado were ...

In 2023, the Black Hills National Forest undertook an intensive Light Detection and Ranging, or LIDAR, project, flying over to map the land at public expense.