In her 2016 master’s thesis research, South Dakota State University biologist conducted the first statewide assessment of South Dakota’s freshwater mussel population. Faltys’s team found…
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Representative Trish Ladner (R-30/Hot Springs) and Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-35/Rapid City) got off their right-wing radicalism long enough last fall to talk about assessing certain…
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) updated Joint Appropriations yesterday on its effort to recruit landowners to convert 3,000 more acres of streamside cropland and…
Another advantage of printing veggie steaks is that when a drought hits, we don’t have to decimate pheasant habitat to feed our cattle. But wildlife…
Sometimes change means putting South Dakota back the way we found it before we wrecked it. Such is the good horticulturalist extraordinaire W. Carter Johnson…
Governor Noem’s well-subsidized brothers must want to grow some grass. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which the Governor can proceed to bury now…
Democratic legislator Jim Peterson tried for years to pass a plan to improve water quality with agricultural property tax incentives for grassy buffer strips along…
As coronavirus and zebra mussels ravage the prairie, our man Jon Hunter reminds us that South Dakota leaders are also failing to address an old…
Team Noem is doing a poor job of whipping hemp legislation to passage. She said she wanted to wrap up the hemp issue in the…
Good policy does occasionally make it through the South Dakota Legislature. House Agriculture and Natural Resources took its turn this morning at House Bill 1119, an…