I suppose this story from Spearfish is no more than a postscript to the ecocide of Manifest Destiny, but housing development in the Northern Hills has killed the three buffalo that used to roam the grounds of the High Plains…
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Here's one part of Governor Dennis Daugaard's budget proposal that I like: the Governor wants to spend a half-million dollars to connect the Mickelson Trail with Mount Rushmore. ...Daugaard wants $500,000 in state money to be used for an 18-mile…
On every side now the prairie stretched away empty to a far, clear skyline. The wind never stopped blowing, waving the tall prairie grasses. —Laura Ingalls Wilder, By the Shores of Silver Lake, 1939 Mary Garrigan reports that the South…
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday against Hill City sculptor Peggy Detmers in her appeal of a contract dispute with actor Kevin Costner. Back in the early 1990s, riding high on the success of Dances with Wolves and…
Nathan Johnson posts brilliantly on the importance of preserving a community's history and its landmarks. He celebrates the conversion of Yankton's Meridian Bridge into a unique pedestrian trail: ...while there are a few people who still complain it is a…
Spring has sprung early! I can spend my Sunday mornings in two-wheeled bliss again. This morning led me east to the hills of Crook City, then north through Whitewood, and on to that Francophone paradise, St. Onge. View Larger Map…
Oh, and did I mention that Dan Lemme has a heck of a good idea? The Madison developer would like to turn the old gravel pit on the Lake County Poor Farm land into a campground. Put in 80 campsites,…
On the heels of state approval of Wharf Resources' expanded mining near Terry Peak, state officials are now talking with Valentine Mining about gouging out another chunk of the Black Hills. Miners would like to make the Ragged Top Mountain…