Boxelder Job Corps Center
Helps Build Important Life Skills
Release Date: November 11,
2009
Description: Situated
in the Middle of the Hills by Nemo, SD, the Boxelder Job Corps
Center has been serving and teaching young people important
life skills through career technical and academic training.
Black Hills National
Forest Teams up with Norbeck Society to Build Trail Bridges
Release Date: September 26,
2009
Description: The
Black Hills National Forest recently teamed up with the Norbeck
Society to construct bridges for the Deerfield hiking and
cycling trail.
Description: The
Black Hills National Forest and its campground concessionaire,
Forest Recreation Management, Inc. (FRM), held its fifth annual
Experience the Outdoors (ETO) day at the Horsethief Lake campground
on Wednesday, September 16, 2009.
Description: Case
#1 was the first timber sale in the nation. Two trees are
cut down from the Case 1 timber area and are taken to a musuem
for historic sawsmills.
Author: Beth
Steinhauer
Running Time: 2:07
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Video
Windy Tornado near Cook
Lake, WY
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Description: Forest
Service officials cautioned the public to be extra cautious
traveling in the Cook Lake, WY, area, recently hit by a tornado,
and to not cut firewood from the broken trees.
Description: Several
tribal youth are working with the Black Hills National Forest
and National Park Service on a wide variety of natural resource
projects this summer.
Description:The
Black Hills National Forest has thousands of tons of wood
that must either be burned or used for some good purpose,
like making formula one race car fuel.
Description:The
Pack mule string team is part of Forest Service history and
this history is being kept alive today. The Rocky Mountain
Specialty Pack String, based out of Shawnee, Colorado worked
in the Black Elk Wilderness area for two weeks.
Description:The
Sundance Hazardous Fuels Reduction Plan has multiple units
identified for prescribed fire. Project size is estimated
at 1359 acres and the primary objective of this burn is fuels
reduction for public and firefighter safety and improved forest
health.
4th Annual Experience
The Outdoors Day Held For Adults With Special Needs
Release Date: September 10,
2008
Smokey Bear Takes A Picture With
One of the Participants
Description:The
Black Hills National Forest and its campground concessionaire,
Forest Recreation Management, Inc. (FRM) held their fourth
annual Experience the Outdoors (ETO) day at the Horsethief
Lake campground on Wednesday, September 10, 2008.
Firewise Aims at Building
Fire Safe Communities in the Black Hills
Release Date: August 20, 2008
Firewise Project Manager Talks About
Fire Safe Homes
Description:The
Firewise Communities Program mission is to get communities
involved in protecting their natural surroundings and homes
from fire danger.
Youth Natural Resource
Program helps Forest and Parks
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Youth Build Fence Around Sensitive Willow
Species
Description:Eighteen
young people from across the state and region participated
in the Youth Natural Resource Program this summer, assisting
the U.S. Forest Service and National Park Service in conservation
projects.
Passport In Time Volunteers
Restore Historic Fire Tower
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Passport In Time
Description:Volunteers
with the Passport in Time (PIT) program worked with the Black
Hills National Forest to repair portions of the Custer Peak
fire tower near Deadwood.
Off Road Riders Association
Clean Up Centennial Trail
Release Date: July 18, 2008
ORA Member Spreads Gravel on Trail
Description:The
Off–Road Riders Association (ORA) volunteered with the
Black Hills National Forest last Saturday to repair a damaged
area of the motorized section of the Centennial Trail. The
trail damage was caused by heavy precipitation and excessive
off-road travel.
Description: Aerial
photography taken from a helicopter in the Black Hills National
Forest Sunday and Monday, August 19 and 20, 2007 shows the
devastating march of beetles across many areas of the Black
Hills. Particularly hard hit areas include upper Spring Creek
near the Medicine Mountain Boy Scout Camp, the entire forested
area around Harney Peak, the Norbeck Wildlife Preserve, parts
of Custer State Park, and a large area around Deerfield Lake.
Ponderosa pine forests that have been thinned, prescribed
burned, and logged are shaking off worsening pine beetle attacks
and increasingly difficult wildfires, officials say.
Lakota Reburial Ceremony
in the Black Hills National Forest
Release Date: October 17,
2007
Lakota Reburial Ceremony in the Black
Hills National Forest
Description: On
May 15, 2007 the remains of four tribal ancestors were reburied
in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota during
a Lakota Ceremony.
Rev. Robert Two Bulls, a retired Episcopal
priest, laid the remains to rest at a spot chosen by a Lakota
spiritual leader. The four people, including two young girls
and an adult male, are about 150 to 200 years old.
At one point, the remains of one of the girls
was on public display. Her bones were sitting in museums and
other collections until Donovin Sprague of First Nations Heritage
Association stepped in to repatriate them.
Description: The
Nursery maintains 46 acres of irrigated seedbeds, along with
a controlled environment greenhouse. The Nursery also maintains
the U.S. Forest Service's Region 2 Seed Bank. The Nursery
extracts, cleans, and stores seed obtained from cones and
berries supplied by its customers. The seed is used to grow
seedlings for customers requesting seedlings or shipped to
customers who want to directly sow the seed.
“Paha Sapa”
– American Indian Use of the Black Hills
Release Date: October 16,
2007
“Paha Sapa” – American
Indian Use of the Black Hills
Description: On
May 16, 2007, Donovin Sprague, Director of Learning at Crazy
Horse Memorial and Executive Director of First Nations Heritage
Association presented to the Black Hills National Forest Advisory
Board in Rapid City, South Dakota a presentation titled “Paha
Sapa” – American Indian Use of the Black Hills.
Description: The
Black Hills National Forest and its campground concessionaire,
Forest Recreation Management, Inc. (FRM) held their second
annual "Experience the Outdoors" (ETO) day at the
Horsethief Lake campground. Approximately 60 to 80 developmentally
disabled adults attended as guests of FRM and the Forest Service
at an event held to highlight the outdoor opportunities that
can be found throughout the Black Hills National Forest.
Description: In
2005, The Black Hills National Forest Mystic Ranger District
held a clean-up for the Beretta Road area of the forest. Over
a hundred volunteers showed up for the community service project.
Volunteers included environmental groups, shooting enthusiast,
and off-highway vehicle organizations.
Black Hills National
Forest Travel Planning Update
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Description: Forest
Supervisor Craig Bobzien took some time today to record his
thoughts on videotape, and the Black Hills National Forest public
affairs staff put together the videocast. We invite you to take
a few minutes and listen to Craig's remarks. If you have questions
please contact:
Tom Willems at twillems@fs.fed.us or (605) 673-9217
Frank Carroll at fcarroll@fs.fed.us or (605) 673-9216
or contact Craig direct at cbobzien@fs.fed.us or (605) 673-9200.
Author: Gary
C. Chancey
Running Time:
8:11
Transcript
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Description: It’s
already been the best year for prescribed burning in the Black
Hills in a decade and crews have burned almost 4,000 acres since
October 1.
Tribal Youth Conservation
Corps Completes Summer Projects
Release Date: Aug 24, 2005
Description: The young
people between the ages of 15 and 22 provided over 3,500 hours
of labor to resource projects this summer during the 5th year
anniversary of the Tribal YCC program.
Author: Gary
C. Chancey
Running Time:
2:56
Press
Release
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Description: Included
Fires: Cement, Allison, Spring Draw, Hemler, Sheep Nose. The
Rocky Mountain Type II Incident Management Team with Marc Mullenix
as Incident Commander has arrived and is transitioning with
the Type III Incident Management Team today (Monday, 07/25).
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on Fire Information for more updates.
Author: Gary
C. Chancey
Running Time:
1:29
Read the latest South
Sundance Complex Fire Update
Description: 100 percent
contained. The mop-up work went well and crews made excellent
progress in the rehabilitation of the fireline. Several resources
are demobing (being released) today with the remaining resources
demobing on Tuesday morning. On Tuesday, command of the fire
will be turned back over to the Black Hill National Forest to
continue monitoring the fire.
Description: This program
includes the discussion of six key areas of proposed foundational
doctrine developed at the USDA Forest Service Pulaski Conference
held in Alta, Utah, June 6-10, 2005.
Author: Gary
C. Chancey
Running Time:
16:06
Fire Suppression: Proposed Foundational
Doctrine
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Forest Engineers Respond To Hurricane Relief Request
Release Date: May 17, 2005
Description: Black
Hills National Forest engineers and many others from forests
across the country have answered the call to help North Carolina
restore its National Forest facilities, trails, and roads in
the Appalachian Mountains.
Description: New facilities
at Horsethief Campground are making it much easier for persons
with disabilities to camp in the Black Hills National Forest.
Description: The Custer,
SD based 20-person Tatanka Hot Shot fire crew have thinned trees
to improve a view of Mount Rushmore from Iron Mountain road.
The Tatanka Hot Shot crew is using this time to prepare for
another busy fire season.
Description: The Williams
Spring site contains material spanning 8,000 years of human
occupation in the northern Black Hills of Wyoming. This project
is a long-term archaeological research partnership with the
University of Wyoming and the Forest Service "Passport
In Time" program.
Description: Estimate
full containment Today at 8:00 p.m. Estimated at 775 acres.
Location: Boulder Canyon south of Highway 14A, approximately
5 miles east of Deadwood, South Dakota.
Description: 3D mapping
technology is allowing the Black Hills National Forest to view
the forest from any angle. The pictures could be used to assist
firefighters to get a better perspective of the lay of the land.
Author: Ken
Marchand/Geographic Information System Specialist
Description: The USDA
Forest Service and several tribes came closer to understanding
one another’s concerns when the two groups met for two
days of discussion. Topics brought to the table included adopting
a Forest Service sacred sites policy and establishing a tribal
leaders advisory council.
Description: Winter
brings on a different environment for outdoor workers, and USDA
Forest Service law enforcement officers (LEOs) understand the
importance of knowing how to survive an overnight stay in the
forest in bitter cold, snowy conditions.
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