The Black Hills National Forest is the most intensively managed in the U.S., with the highest timber sale allowance in the Rocky Mountain region and extensive livestock grazing.
These landscape assessments were created by LANDFIRE and the Conservation Data Lab.
Click on the map above to explore the LANDFIRE-Powered Landscape Assessment for the Black Hills / Pine Ridge Subregion.
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
Resources:
Black Hills Mountain Pine Beetle Strategy
Black Hills National Forest Fire Management
Subregion Representative:
Ben Wudtke, Director, Black Hills Forest Resource Association