We are so fortunate in the Black Hills and surrounding areas to have an abundance of public lands for recreation and education. As a non-profit public land partner, Black Hills Parks & Forests Association (BHPFA) is looking for photos and video of visitors...
News Release Media Contact: Cyd Janssen, Forest Public Affairs Officer 308.432.0300 cdjanssen@fs.fed.us Prescribed Broadcast Burns Scheduled to Begin March 25 at the Nebraska National Forests & Grasslands, Bessey Ranger District Halsey, NE- March 13, 2019- Fire...
Looking for a 2019 summer adventure? Considering a career as a park ranger or interpretive guide? Want to explore to determine whether this is the career for you? Have you taken a Certified Interpretive Guide course with the National Association for Interpretation,...
Wind Cave National Park News Release Release Date: February 12, 2019 For Immediate Release Contact: Tom Farrell, tom_farrell@nps.gov, 605-745-1130 Wind Cave Surpasses 150 Miles in Length WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. – Cave explorers from Colorado recently surveyed...
News Release Media Contact: Cyd Janssen, Forest Public Affairs Officer 308.432.0300 cdjanssen@fs.fed.us Grouse viewing blinds available April 1 for free use Nebraska and South Dakota, March 18, 2019 – Across our entire region, a spectacular avian display will soon be...
WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. – Fifteen students and two faculty from the University of Northern Iowa, along with a NASA scientist, spent their spring break in the depths of Wind Cave as part of a simulated astrobiological field expedition. The undergraduate students...
Jewel Cave 200 Mile Celebration & Reunion JUNE 28 – JUNE 30, 2019 Join Jewel Cave National Monument, their non-profit partner Black Hills Parks & Forests Association and the members of Paha Sapa Grotto in celebrating all of the discoveries at Jewel Cave...
After a wildlife biologist ignited hay spread across a tilted, grated metal slab outside a lab in south Rapid City on Thursday, the fire traveled uphill along the table, eventually lighting the grassy top of a large soil sample. Inside the cylinder-shaped core sample...
by Jennifer Moore Myers, SRS Science Communications • September 27, 2018 Climate change is here. In southern forests, it takes the form of novel disturbances – different frequency and severity of drought, fire, wind storms, insect outbreaks, even ice storms – or a...
Northern Research Station Research Wildlife Biologist Sybill Amelon, University of Missouri scientists, and scientists in the Czech Republic began with a research question: why is white-nose syndrome (WNS) decimating hibernating bat populations in North America but...
Megafires, Wildland Fires, and Prescribed Burns Fire impacts on U.S. freshwater resources by Patty Matteson, SRS Public Affairs • May 10, 2018 Healthy forests are important for clean and abundant water supplies. A recent USDA Forest Service study examined how wildland...
Bark beetles have ravaged 85,000 square miles of forest in the western United States since 2000, including this area in California as seen in 2016. U.S. FOREST SERVICE A forester in Poland’s Bialowieza Forest points to larvae of spruce bark beetles. WOJTEK...
