The Rifle You Have Always Wanted Nov 12, 2009
I was shooting Black Hills. 357 s loaded with a 158 grain jacketed hollow point bullets. (Human Events Online)
SD Gambling Town Considers Adding Roulette, Craps Oct 29, 2009
Deadwood, gambling town in South Dakota's Black Hills, considers adding roulette, craps ... Deadwood is focusing now on celebrating the 20th anniversary of legalized gambling in the historic Black Hills town where Wild Bill Hickok was gunned down in 1876. (ABC News -- Wire)
Top ready-made autumn adventures Oct 22, 2009
Biking South Dakota's Black Hills. Operator. (CNN)
Cold snap may have killed some pine beetles, but most likely survived Oct 14, 2009
The air got fairly frigid last weekend in the Black Hills ... For example, beetles in Montana can withstand even colder temperatures than Black Hills beetles ... A super cold winter likely would kill some beetles, but maybe not enough to affect an outbreak like the one that has spread throughout many areas of the Black Hills, Schaupp said. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Affordable fall adventures Oct 10, 2009
Thats why Austin-Lehman Adventures is one of the first outfitters to offer a trip into South Dakotas pine-covered Black Hills, a strikingly isolated mountain range rising from the heart of the Great Plains. Bicyclists navigate the hairpin turns of the otherworldly Needles Highway, passing through a landscape of granite spires, then looping around herds of huge animals. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Setting off to find America Oct 7, 2009
Which is rather a long way of explaining how we came to be in Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota one June afternoon, sharing the inside of our van with the startlingly large head of a living, breathing, snorting buffalo ... Swell, I thought: Only seven more mountain ranges to cross: the Wasatch Mountains, the Black Hills, the Bighorns, the Wind Rivers, the southern extension of the Canadian Rockies, the Cascades and the Siskiyous. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
On the Arizona Trail: Black Hills Sep 12, 2009
In his "Guide to the Arizona Trail," Tom Jones (not the singer) describes the walk on the Black Hills stretch, 28 miles from just north of Oracle to Freeman Road, as moderate ... With Antelope Peak in the background, Mike and Maureen are just a couple hours' walk from the end of the Black Hills segment of the Arizona Trail ... This month, they tell of tackling the scenic Black Hills segment north of Oracle. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Stevens graduate runs the Rockies Sep 9, 2009
I d like to come back to the Black Hills to do the Mickelson Trail Marathon. As a Raider, Delude was part of a cross country and track program that dominated South Dakota. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Some love the family rides ATVs provide... Aug 16, 2009
He used to go to the Black Hills National Forest, but a couple of years ago his favorite area was closed to motorized vehicles ... The Black Hills used to be a good place to ride all year because it didnt get the same severe weather as the Big Horns ... The Black Hills National Forest Service is in the process of approving an alternative to their motorized travel management plan that could open trails in the Sand Creek area of the forest, said Steve Kozel, Bearlodge District ranger. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Help plan our vacation Aug 5, 2009
Robby Aug 3, 2009 9:37 AM South Dakota Black Hills for sure just not during Sturgis ... Dan Aug 4, 2009 11:50 AM The Black Hills are awesome, especially if you have kids. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
Why should you see America first? Ask Kitty Jul 28, 2009
We moved on through the Black Hills. We were in the West now, an entirely different world than my little hometown in eastern Pennsylvania or my adopted home of Buffalo. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Tester unveils forest plan Jul 19, 2009
logger wrote on Jul 18, 2009 9:24 AM:" The Pine beetle just killed 750,000 acres on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge. For the last five years,the Forest Service has logged an average of 500 acres/year. You're not going to mitigate any fire hazard with that. The 70,000 acres the Partnershep proposes to harvest in 10 years is just 2.5% of the 2,500,000 "forested acres" on the BDNF. No rational person can think that's too much. There's a wonderfull oportunity here to "restore" by thinning the low elevation... (Missoulian, MT)
Tranquilized bear relocated to Big Horns Jul 15, 2009
The bears journey back toward the Black Hills had taken it more than 300 miles if hed gone in a straight line, OBrien pointed out. The Game and Fish had received a couple of reports about the bear before Fridays incident, when it was frightened and climbed the pole as spectators gathered below it. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
Tornado destroys 2 NE Wyoming homes, no injuries Jul 15, 2009
About five miles of roads in the Cook Lake area of Black Hills National Forest were covered with downed trees, forester Jeanette Timm said. The agency expects to have the roads cleared in the next two days. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
Dinosaur bones draw fossil hunter to eastern Wyo ranch Jul 8, 2009
In defense of the commercial side, Marion Zenker of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research argues that vertebrate fossils are everywhere. "When they say vertebrate fossils are rare, if you know, you can't help but laugh," Zenker said. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Wyoming celebrates the fur-trading era Jun 17, 2009
The most famous of those was the still-disputed Treaty of 1868, an attempt to bring peace by restricting white access to the Black Hills of Dakota and making the area part of the Sioux Reservation. The American government broke the treaty within six years and a war ensued, including the annihilation of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's Army detachment at the Battle of Little Bighorn. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Fort Laramie in Wyoming to commemorate 175 years later this month Jun 16, 2009
The most famous of those was the still-disputed Treaty of 1868, an attempt to bring peace by restricting white access to the Black Hills of Dakota and making the area part of the Sioux Reservation. The American government broke the treaty within six years and a war ensued, including the annihilation of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer s Army detachment at the Battle of Little Bighorn. (Helena Independent Record, MT)
National Parks Offer Cool Summer Nights Jun 2, 2009
South Dakota: Badlands & The Black Hills ... Plus, just a few hours west, the Black Hills rise out of the Badlands, inviting exploration of rock spires, clear lakes, cool forests, and main-street-strolling towns ... Choose from lodge rooms or creekside cabins, all with an ideal location for easy access into the Black Hills. (KERO 23, CA)
Ode to a lost era of muscle cars and mighty carmakers May 5, 2009
Search Local Business Listings. Posted by /Star-Ledger May 04, 2009 8:58PM. (NJ.com -- News)
From our past, a solution for anchoring an America that's adrift Apr 28, 2009
Search Local Business Listings. Posted by /Star-Ledger columnist April 23, 2009 8:00PM. (NJ.com -- News)
EPA: Stimulus package has $5M more for Gilt Edge Apr 16, 2009
The mine dated to the late 1870s Black Hills gold rush and became one of several in the area that was mined again with "heap-leach" technology that created mountains of crushed rock, which was soaked with diluted cyanide to leach out gold. However, Brohm Mining Corp.'s Gilt Edge venture failed, and taxpayers in 2000 had to step in to clean the site, which is at the headwaters of Strawberry Creek and Bear Butte Creek, flowing to Sturgis. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Nebraska family calls home, asks to be left alone Apr 3, 2009
Sheriff's Office asked local authorities to search areas in the Black Hills where Schade had camped in the past. On Thursday, the family called Schade's father, letting him know everyone was fine and prepared to wait out this weekend's predicted Black Hills storm, according to Knox County deputies ... Because of the uncertain motives behind the family's Black Hills camping trip, search teams included armed law enforcement officials, Evenson said. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
ND Declared Disaster Area Preceding Floods Mar 25, 2009
South Dakota got the worst of the snowfall, with 30 inches reported in the Black Hills. The storm system also generated tornadoes. (KIRO TV, WA)
Winter makes comeback Mar 24, 2009
Mount Rushmore National Memorial closed because of the icy, blinding weather in South Dakota's rugged Black Hills ... The weather service said accumulations of up to 20 inches were possible in parts of Wyoming and northwest South Dakota, but 30 to 40 inches was possible in the northern Black Hills, where Rapid City, S.D., recorded a gust to 63 mph. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Snowshoes and s'mores; camping in the cold Feb 28, 2009
With a highest peak of 1,958 feet, these are modest, Midwestern mountains the highest hills between the Alleghenies and the Black Hills. The Porkies, as they are affectionately known, are also home to one of the largest virgin tracts of hardwood forest (sugar maples, yellow birch and hemlock) in North America, despite the best efforts of loggers in the last century. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
Four score and 18 years ago, sculptor left his mark on Newark Feb 17, 2009
A sheer mountain face of South Dakota's granite Black Hills was shaped into a 60-foot-high monument to four great American presidents. Borglum, born in Idaho two years after Abraham Lincoln's death, had believed in creating art "drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement," he said in 1908. (NJ.com -- News)
