Why is Neiman Enterprises shutting down its sawmill in Hill City? Permit me to suggest that climate change has reduced the level of sustainable timber…
Posts tagged as “Black Hills”
In its fire sale of America’s health and welfare, the Trump Administration last month approved the Powertech/Azarga in situ uranium mining plan in the Dewey–Burdock…
Back in March, the National Forest Service issued a draft technical report that said that current logging rates put us on pace to deplete the…
My morning paper yesterday brought this pointed juxtaposition of headlines showing that Kristi Noem can’t wish away the real problems facing our state: Monument Health…
Lots of school districts think they can open this fall, crowd kids in the usual numbers into the usual classrooms, and not see coronavirus break…
The Valentine Mining Company still wants to dig for gold just over the rim of Spearfish Canyon. Eight years after first seeking approval for its…
South Dakota’s Black Hills fire crews got a quick grip on that wildfire in Custer State Park, thanks in part to a fortuitous thunderstorm that…
I remember back in March reading the National Park Service’s assessment of the potential environmental impact of Kristi and Donald’s proposed fireworks show at Mount…
Back in December, Black Hills resident and wildfire expert Bill Gabbert called shooting off tons of fireworks over a ponderosa pine forest in July “literally…
My friend Joseph Nelson deserves credit for inspiring this post. Donald Trump says he’s yanking the convention from Charlotte, North Carolina. (Well, maybe not all…