Uh oh: looks like Rep. Kristi Noem is going to have to ask for more federal government spending. With climate change expanding the wildfire season, Congress hasn't been allocating enough money to fight wildfires. This year the Forest Service ran…
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The U.S. Forest Service released its final Environmental Impact Statement for its Mountain Pine Beetle Response project Thursday. The current decade-plus pine beetle infestation has killed trees on a third of the 1.2 million acres of the Black Hills National…
The Governor Dennis Daugaard's "Beat the Beetles" program just won recognition from the Council of State Governments for innovative state policy. One of the major selling points of South Dakota's pine beetle mitigation program as been to reduce the risk…
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…
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…
Black Hills Power wants to build about 150 miles of new power line from Wyoming to South Dakota. The Teckla-Osage-Rapid City Transmission 230 kV Project would bring (probably) coal-fired power from the Teckla and Osage Substations in northeastern Wyoming to…
MPBRP—that's the sound I made last night after eating salads made with bacon, sausage, and salami. MPBRP is also the Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project the Forest Service is proposing to take care of those pesky pine beetles in the…