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...
Lethal fungus that causes white-nose syndrome may have an Achilles` heel, new study reveals Madison, WI, January 2, 2018 – The fungus behind white-nose syndrome, a disease that has ravaged bat populations in North America, may have an Achilles’ heel: UV...
More Room for South Dakota Bison to Roam The Nature Conservancy has signed a new agreement with the National Park Service to help conserve one of its most genetically valuable bison herds. Like Yellowstone National Park, bison from Wind Cave National Park in western...
Black Hills Parks & Forests Association has long anticipated our new website. We are so excited to now release it! The new website will be more content driven than commerce driven. We will be able to keep you up-to-date on upcoming events and accomplishments with...
