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May 7, 2021
Leslie Millard, Marketing Communications Specialist with Black Hills Federal Credit Union, presents a check to Jeffrey Underhill, forest silviculturist for the Black Hills National Forest Service (photo credit: Black Hills Federal Credit Union)
RAPID CITY, S.D. To celebrate Arbor Day, Black Hills Federal Credit Union made a donation of $1,100 to the Jasper Fire Reforestation Project.
BHFCU teamed up with the Black Hills National Forest Service to enroll members in paperless statements; each member that switched to eStatements counted as a one dollar donation.
“Arbor Day is observed by planting trees, and this year BHFCU wanted to be a part of that in a local way,” said Leslie Millard, Marketing Communications Specialist. “With help from our members, we have funded the planting of 1,300 trees in the Black Hills. I would call that a success!”
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May 7, 2021
BLACK HILLS, S.D. In 2020, the Black Hills National Forest Service sold a record amount of ATV permits, but what does that impact bring for homeowners and residents who live along these trails?
Rod and Jan Hines live along Mystic Road and love to entertain their grandchildren, who have problems with asthma.
“We couldn’t even let the children go outside to play. It would trigger their asthma so badly that it wasn’t safe. We never open windows, haven’t used our porches at all because the dust is so horrific,” the Hines said.
Other residents, like Jan and John Humphrey, who have lived along the Castle Peak Road for 20 years, say they’ve noticed the increased dust, damage to public roads, trails, land and say they’ve seen less wildlife in the past few years, since the boom of ATVs in the area – now, they’re moving on and moving out.
Black Hills forest management plan tries to strike balance
ALEX PORTAL, Black Hills Pioneer
May 3, 2021
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SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) The question isn’t, “should commercial timber sales take place in the Black Hills,” the question is, “how many commercial timber sales should take place in the Black Hills.”
That is the crux of a conversation currently taking place among: forest officials from the National Forest Service, which regulates and manages the Black Hills National Forest; the Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board, a 32-member committee made up of stakeholders with specific interest in the Black Hills; and the Black Hills Forest Resource Association, which advocates for the forest products industry.
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April 21, 2021
CUSTER, S.D. Black Hills National Forest Service crews will be out for two-and-a-half weeks to plant more than 153,000 ponderosa pine seedlings over 400 acres in the old Jasper Fire area of the Hell Canyon Ranger District.
In 2000, the Jasper Fire burned more than 83,500 acres in the Southern Hills, leaving thousands of acres without a seed source for mature trees – meaning without aid, regrowth was impossible.
Working with the Bessey Nursery in Nebraska, forest crews began growing a pine stock to be replanted in the fire scar, and have been successful in the replanting process since in began in 2002.