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Article: Open range gobblers: finding turkey-hunting gold in South Dakota's Black Hills.(PUBLIC LAND)
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- Petersen's Hunting
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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SOUTH DAKOTA'S BLACK Hills can be very cold at the end of April. But its more than 1 million public acres and hard-gobbling Merriam's can warm things up in a hurry. The Lakota Souix call it Paha Sapa ("hills that are black"), some 1.2 million acres running roughly from Spearfish south to Hot Springs and Edgemont, and flora the Wyoming border east to 1-90.
President Grover Cleveland designated the lands in western South Dakota as a forest reserve in 1897 primarily to protect valuable timber resources. In 1950, control of the reserve was handed over to the U.S. Forest Service. Two years later the property was renamed Black Hills National Forest.
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