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South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
Maggie Hart, a South Dakota School of Mines and Technology paleontology student, recently found a rare, beaked whale that washed ashore on St. Catherine's Island off the coast of Georgia.... ...At the time of her discovery in late July, Hart, a master's degree candidate from Brea, Calif., was working on the St. Catherine's Island Sea Turtle Conservation Program. In her studies of sea turtles, Har...
South Dakota windbreaks need renovation
.People aren't the only things that age. South Dakota windbreaks and shelterbelts, planted in the 1920's and 1930's are showing their age too. Today, mature trees occupy 71 percent of the timberland area in the state. In eastern South Dakota many of those stands were planted as windbreaks. North Central Research Station scientist Earl Leatherberry stated, "without replanting or renovation the...