Black Hills Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic

Forest officials say a native insect is the culprit, and they believe the trees are still alive.

In The Moment ... December 19, 2019 Show 723 Hour 2Mark Van Every has spent nearly four decades in the forestry business. Since August of 2016, he's been…

In The Moment ... July 31, 2018 Show 390 Hour 2Last week the Black Hills Forest Service signed a post-Pine Beetle Epidemic initiative meant to strengthen…

In The Moment ... January 19, 2018 Show 259 Hour 1This weekend marks the annual Burning of the Beetle in Custer, where residents take out their…

The Black Hills National Forest has a new supervisor. Mark Van Every oversees everything on Forest Service land in the Black Hills from the effort to…

U.S. Forest Service officials want public input on a plan to make the Black Hills more resilient in the future. The goal of the Black Hills Resilient…

Can South Dakota have a healthy tourism season if the forest appears unhealthy to visitors?Dr. Ignatious Cahyanto joins Dakota Midday to discuss the…

Dr. Scott Kenner, head of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at SD School of Mines and Technology and his Grad student Brian Freed join…

Tonight at 8:00 p.m. Central, SDPB-TV airs "Black Hills Metamorphosis." The show looks at the explosion of Pine Beetles in the Black Hills and follows up…

On Saturday in Custer, a massive, 28-foot likeness of a pine beetle will be set on fire in a ceremonial response to the bug that’s ravaged forests in the…