Governor Dennis Daugaard's office proudly announces that the state's pine beetle initiative has treated 215,000 infested trees since last fall. Treated? Like bought 'em ice cream? Treatment techniques include removing infested trees for use in sawmills, as well as the…
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Peripatetic blogger Larry Kurtz has Black Hills dirt permanently under his fingernails. He offers a remarkable account of the 2002 Grizzly Gulch fire, which he watched from the north side of Deadwood as the town faced imminent destruction from flames…
Dakota War College offers another lesson in logical fallacies, this time in the classic false dilemma. The fake-named GOP establishment blog contends that Senator Tim Johnson's hesitance to endorse legislation proposed by Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem to…
Wrap your head around this one: an environmentalist could go to jail for trying to trick loggers into cutting down more trees: A Black Hills environmentalist who for years has fought U.S. Forest Service timber-cutting projects is facing federal charges…
On the long-standing pine beetle problem in the Black Hills, Rep. Kristi Noem has sounded a lot like Newt Gingrich's assessment of the Occupy activists who've been harassing him in Iowa: "All noise, no thought." The U.S. Forest Service and…
Rep. Kristi Noem and Gov. Dennis Daugaard complain that the federal government isn't accting fast enough to counter the pine beetle infestation of the Black Hills. Lawrence County commissioners appear to have the same gripe with Governor Daugaard. At their…
Governor Dennis Daugaard sees pine beetles as a "grave threat" to the Black Hills and has launched a state program to help landowners clear infested trees. Congresswoman Kristi Noem believes the beetles imperil health and human safety so much that…
I invite my friend Larry Kurtz, who has some remarkable perspectives on the Black Hills and pine beetles, and other environmentally sensitive readers to comment on Rep. Kristi Noem's effort to turn the current pine beetle infestation to her political…