Black Hills Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Agriculture (SDDA) will host a free workshop on the identification and treatment of mountain pine beetles…

Rapid City business owner Dave Johnson announced Wednesday his candidacy for the District 33 Senate seat now held by Phil Jensen. Johnson will challenge…

South Dakota lawmakers want to continue efforts to fight Pine Beetles in the Black Hills. Republican State Representative Mike Verchio says this is an…

The House Appropriations committee killed a bill that funds South Dakota’s fight against Pine Beetles. Lawmakers say the bill is duplicate legislation of…

The State Senate is backing two measures to fund the fight against pine beetles in the Black Hills. Senate Bill 28 and Senate Bill 135 both add extra…

SDPB's Charles Michael Ray interviewed South Dakota School of Mines researchers Jim Stone and Heidi Sieverding about new research on the impact of pine…

For nearly two decades, the mountain pine beetle has spread across hundreds of thousands of acres of the Black Hills National Forest leaving behind…

It’s cold outside. Parts of the Black Hills could see nighttime temperatures diving close to 20 below zero in the coming days.But for some people, it's…

Pine beetles, the federal budget, forest fires and climate were topics at a press conference last week at the Forest Service office in Custer. Tom…

The Chief of the United States Forest Service took a tour of the Black Hills this week . Tom Tidwell who oversees the federal agency got a first-hand view…