Monday, February 10, 2014

Item # 3, , Deadlines and Events that recycle



  DEADLINES AND EVENTS That Recycle

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This section is sometimes somewhat redundant with earlier section

INDEX TO THIS SECTION

1. Past Events & Deadlines - THAT RECYCLE

Next  a chronological list of events and deadlines that will recycle each year.,


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RECYCLING EVENTS & DEADLINE LIST STARTS

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Christmas Bird Counts, Dec-Jan
The CBC occurs in later half of Dec and first week of January every year
PHAS will post a list of CBCs in SD and
 locations in other states near borders of Western SD


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SD LEGISLATURE WILL  MEET NEXT YEAR

 SD Legislature will start in early January, 2017

How to contact legislators
If  you scroll down to PHAS January archives for 2014 you will find some info on contacting the legislature and which environmental 
groups lobby and send alerts, that may still be of use. 
Please note we had an election in 2014 and the list of SD legislators will have changed. 

These links to bill tracking services are refreshed 2015 links 

SD Legislative Research Council has lots and lots of info, functions and links:

link to SD Game Fish & Parks (GFP)  bill tracking list/service 2015 is 

link to get SD Department of Environment & Natural Resource's  (DENR) bill tracking list/service 2015 is

link to SD Wildlife Federation's Camo-Coalition bill tracking service 2015

Dakota Rural Action's bill tracker 2015

Dakota Rural Action's legislative blog
http://legislation.dakotarural.org

SD Division of the Izaak Walton League ( contact: Paul Lepisto <PLepisto (at) iwla.org>) 
and SD Chapter of the Sierra Club (contact: Dana Loseke <dana.loseke (at) gmail.com>)
 also follow the legislature and engage in bill tracking, contact leaders if you want more info on their efforts on bills
they follow.
We shelter e-mail addresses by replacing @ with (at) 



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PHAS will post a list of cracker barrels in the state after the legislature starts

Cracker Barrel in Piedmont, SD, February
Every year Prairie Hills Audubon Society is the co-sponsor of a cracker barrel in Piedmont SD.
This normally occurs on the 2nd Saturday of February, in the afternoon at the Piedmont Legion Hall.

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likely a Thursday,  in early March likely at the Outdoor West Campus in Rapid City. 
 Black Hills Area Botany and Ecology Workshop 
 A free, no-registration-required, all-day event open to all involved and interested
 in the management of natural resources in the Black Hills and surrounding plains area.  

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THIS EVENT RECYCLES EVERY YEAR WATCH NEXT APRIL 2016


 Western South Dakota Hydrology Meeting 
likely will be held in Rapid City at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center , likely in April .
Meeting Web site 

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Weekend in early May
Prairie Hills Audubon Society hosts a field trip to La Creek National Wildlife Refuge

An Early Weekend in May is normally the West River Migration Count

2nd Saturday in May,
This is normally the weekend Ideawild has it's auction event in Rapid City, SD
normally at the Journey, Museum


A weekend in later half of May is normally the SDOU spring meeting 

3rd Friday in May
Endangered Species Day,
PHAS and other groups normally have a meeting on Friday eve.

Summer
Annual Bat Festival by SD Bat Working Group



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