The ritual burning of the mountain pine beetle is scheduled again in a Black Hills town named for a war criminal.
2020 could be the end of the Bark Beetle Blues event as the infestation peaked last year and likely won't return for at least a decade.
The erstwhile event is driven by earth hater emotion and not by science. Water supplies are critical this year as human-caused climate disruptions reduced snowpack in the Black Hills. Insects and fire are critical to reversing the ravages of conifer overgrowth on public lands.
County commissions are infamous for rubber-stamping new homebuilding in the wildland-urban interface and like Kristi Noem's donors they are among the first blaming environmentalists for bringing science-based decision-making to forest policy.
Tribal nations trapped in South Dakota are making progress having the names of war criminals stricken from the state's geographical features.
On this date in 1989 Kevin Costner finished the filming of Dances With Wolves in western South Dakota.
2020 could be the end of the Bark Beetle Blues event as the infestation peaked last year and likely won't return for at least a decade.
The torch march, fireworks and burning of the beetle are all conducted under the supervision of the Custer Volunteer Fire Department.Read more here.
The erstwhile event is driven by earth hater emotion and not by science. Water supplies are critical this year as human-caused climate disruptions reduced snowpack in the Black Hills. Insects and fire are critical to reversing the ravages of conifer overgrowth on public lands.
County commissions are infamous for rubber-stamping new homebuilding in the wildland-urban interface and like Kristi Noem's donors they are among the first blaming environmentalists for bringing science-based decision-making to forest policy.
Tribal nations trapped in South Dakota are making progress having the names of war criminals stricken from the state's geographical features.
On this date in 1989 Kevin Costner finished the filming of Dances With Wolves in western South Dakota.
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