Dakota Free Press Podcast Episode #5 is up and ready for your earbuds! This week, Spencer Dobson and I talk March for Science, pine beetles, online…
Tag: Black Hills
Just like San Francisco city employees and insurance execs, the mountain pine beetle is staying away from South Dakota. The beetle epidemic that turned much of…
South Dakota agriculture relies on immigrant workers to bring in the crops, cattle, and milk. Another big South Dakota industry, tourism, relies on foreign labor to cook, clean, and…
KOTA-TV notes that Governor Dennis Daugaard lost his appeal of the Bureau of Indian Affairs decision to place the Pe’ Sla grassland in the middle of…
The Whitetail Fire in Custer State Park this month is one tiny flare-up in a long-term increase in wildfire driven by climate change. The Trump budget…
Governor Dennis Daugaard just finished his penultimate (Lori Walsh used that word—bless you, dear lady!) State of the State Address to the 2017 Legislature. The three biggest…
Black Elk Peak isn’t as tall as we thought it was. Black Hills photographer Paul Horsted enlisted Nebraska surveyor Jerry Penry to remeasure the mountain and…
Azarga Uranium (formerly Powertech) opened December telling its investors they were a step closer to finally mining uranium in the Dewey Burdock region north of Edgemont. But…
Seth Tupper reports that the U.S. Forest Service opposes a bill sponsored by Senator John Thune to speed a land swap between South Dakota and Uncle Sam…
John Tsitrian celebrates Black Elk Peak as a better name for South Dakota’s highest point than its prior colonialist name, Harney Peak. He looks the Governor’s projected…