The Black Hills National Forest is the most intensively managed national forest in the country, has the highest allowable timber sale quantity of any forest in the Rocky Mountain region, and supports extensive livestock grazing.
Hot Topics
- Timber production
- Mountain Pine Beetle
- 4 million tourists annually
- Standing dead and down wood
- Biomass processing
- Prescribed fire and fuels management
- Large private sector presence
- WUI
- Long-eared bats, black-backed woodpeckers
Subregion Representative:
Ben Wudtke, Director, Black Hills Forest Resource Association
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