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State Crews Wrap Up Mountain Pine Beetle Surveys
2/14/2012
State crews will end their surveying and marking of mountain pine beetle infested trees on private lands on Feb. 17.
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Partners Team Up to Reduce Mountain Pine Beetle in the Northern Hills

2/9/2012
Northern Hills Ranger District recently signed a participating agreement with Lawrence County to reduce the mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic in the Northern Hills.
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Education is the Key in Funding Pine Beetle Fight
2/7/2012
Spearfish Canyon Foundation president Susan Johnson got the opportunity to see firsthand on Friday how the seed money donated by the Foundation toward the mountain pine beetle project is helping in the fight. Read More...

Lawrence County Conservation District and State Attack MPB

2/1/2012
The Custer, Lawrence and Pennington County Conservation Districts, through the South Dakota Association of Conservation Districts (SDACD), have teamed with the state's Division of Resource Conservation and Forestry to respond to an exploding mountain pine beetle infestation in the Black Hills. Read More...



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Black Hills Forest Initiative- MPB Program Action Plan


Landowner Cost Share Information

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