Gaia targets Black Hills towns including one named for a war criminal

Dendroctonus ponderosae or mountain pine beetle predates by thousands of years Pinus ponderosa in the Black Hills which only reached that region less than four thousand years ago. Native Douglas fir, limber and lodgepole pine have been mostly extirpated from He Sapa, The Heart of Everything That Is. And, because of Republican failures and greed the Island in the Plains has been broken for decades but the collapse of select Black Hills ecosystems has been evident since at least 2002 so after a century of subsidized livestock grazing and destructive agricultural practices invasive grasses infest most of western South Dakota. 

So, to honor Hulett, Wyoming-based Devils Tower Forest Products the South Dakota town named for a war criminal conducts a ritualized bark beetle burning—but not today.

The burning [of] the beetle has been postponed due to dry weather and forecasted wind. Organizers say the rest of the events will proceed as planned and the actual beetle burn will proceed as soon as some snow falls.

Buffalo, Camp Crook, Ladner, Ludlow, Redig, Reva, Belle Fourche, Newell, Vale, Fruitdale, Belle Fourche Reservoir, Hoover, Faith, Mud Butte, Red Owl, Howes, Opal, Folsom, Box Elder, Caputa, New Underwood, Wasta, Wall, Scenic, Quinn, Ardmore, Edgemont, Provo, Rumford, Sturgis, Piedmont, Black Hawk, Summerset, Tilford, Ellsworth AFB, Union Center, Elm Springs, Enning, White Owl, Usta, Bison, Sorum, and Zeona are all at risk of weaponized wildfire Thursday and Friday.