Just a month ago the State Conservation Commission awarded 29 grants to 20 conservation districts to spend more than $350,000 to plant more shelterbelts. Heck of an idea, right? House Bill 1055 kills that program. The Department of Agriculture is…
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In good conservation news, the South Dakota Department of Agriculture is handing out money to six communities (including Watertown, via the Lake Area Zoological Society) to help plant more trees for us liberals to hug. But wait: is this $11,076…
Motorists cruising through Brookings on U.S. 14 will see dozens of stately trees along sylvan Sixth Street ribboned in red. The ribbons protest the state Department of Transportation's plan to widen Sixth Street from Main to Medary and remove as…
The Missouri River dams, riverside development, and changing land use are eliminating our prairie cottonwood forests. The Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs conservation plans could protect those cottonwood stands, among other things. But growing global demand livestock could clobber cottonwoods…
You think TransCanada/Keystone pipeline opponents are noisy? Try living next to one of the Keystone pumping stations, like the one near Fort Ransom, North Dakota, that's bothering its neighbors: The Keystone pump station that contains four, 5,000-horsepower electric turbines has…
According to Bob Mercer's reports, the Legislature's Ag Land Assessment Tax Force spent its time Monday hearing concerns about trees and conservation and then taking a swipe at those concerns. The committee heard that South Dakota's potential-income tax on farmers…