Bison, SD

The Coordinator for the Tatanka Resource Conservation & Development Council (RC&D) has met with eight county weed boards over the past 4 months in an effort to form a collaborative group to address the control of invasive/noxious weeds. The Dakota Border Weed Management Partnership, as they are now called, is intended to bring together those responsible for weed management within Adams, Bowman, Corson, Dewey, Harding, Perkins, Sioux and Ziebach counties to develop common management objectives, set realistic management priorities, facilitate effective treatment, and coordinate efforts along logical geographic boundaries with similar land types, use patterns and problem species. Assisting in this effort is South Dakota Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service (Grand River District), South Dakota Cooperative Extension Service, South Dakota School & Public Lands, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, among others. The group recently met in Bison and signed a Cooperative Agreement. This Agreement will provide an efficient means of controlling and communicating about noxious and invasive weed management. The sharing of knowledge, and in some cases resources, will achieve better control of weeds while improving working relationships with the partners and members of the publics served by each. The next step for this group is to develop a management plan which includes four elements: Education/Awareness, Prevention/Early Detection, Inventory Treatment (including physical, biological, cultural and chemical methods) and Monitoring.  

Bison area residents have been working fervently for some time now.  The results are starting to show.  Our big Celebration Event was a success!  The night was put together to share with community members, what the Bison Strategic Planning Committee has been up to.  Members of this committee were well diversified with young adults, as well as young and older parents and teachers that included:

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If you want to learn how to surf, e-mail, chat what ever it may be, come join us on Wednesday nights.  We will have a lot of fun and you will be learning new and exciting things!   We will continue to meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month in the Bison Bar (where we have free wireless internet). Hope to see you there!!!!

The Horizons II has brought to us more of an understanding of the situation of run down buildings in Bison.  We no longer look at run-down buildings, and think that it is completely from a lack of care.  We have come to the realization that a lot of this is due to our economy and the situations that some of our citizens are in.  When there is an elderly person in town living on $500/month, that has to save to buy herself a new $15 remote control……it makes you think about it a little more.  We are looking into the “South Dakota Paint” project, setting up clean-up days, and coordinating local people with their resources to Clean up the town.  Let’s not dwell on the negative….let’s get busy and help them to clean up our town!  Check back with us to see how we are coming along.

The 2nd of 3 Strategic Planning committee meetings met at the Main Street Bakery on Tuesday, November 13th at 5:00.  We completed our Vision and Mission Statements.  We had a very diverse group working together on our Vision and Mission Statements.  We wrote this to show what we envision Bison to be in 2008.  We also wrote our goals.  All this after a wonderful meal that was, again, provided by Theo Larson.

Dan Kvale, PA-C, Bison Community Clinic

Bison Community Clinic was selected as the one and only recipient (NATIONWIDE) of the 2007 National Health Service Corps Award of Excellence.

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Tonya drove me down to Sturgis in her wonderful van. What a great person she is for volunteering to drive me anywhere I want to go. But, we ended up here…in Sturgis…at the extension office….learning how to blog from our wonderful Horizons group.

On Saturday, October 27, at 5:30 p.m. HORIZONS will be joining the Bison Volunteer Firemen at the Bentley Building during their annual pancake supper.

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