Pactola Reservoir is located 15 miles west of Rapid City. It is the largest and deepest reservoir in the Black Hills National Forest, boasting 14 miles of shoreline and 150-foot depths on 800 acres.

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After two hours in executive session, the Pennington County Commission voted unanimously to consult legal advice on the board's December 2023 reprimand of District 3 Commissioner Deb Hadcock and ...

South Dakota’s Pactola Reservoir, and Colorado’s Highline Lake. Mussels can be highly deleterious to an ecosystem by smothering native species’ food resources and resulting in toxic algae ...

The project’s location is in the Jenney Gulch area of the Black Hills National Forest, within a mile of Pactola Reservoir. The man-made mountain lake is the largest and deepest reservoir in the Black ...

Some of Montana’s neighbors have dealt with invasive zebra or quagga mussels in recent years, including the Snake River of Idaho, the Pactola Reservoir in South Dakota and Highline Lake in Colorado.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland last week signed an order to block new mining in the Pactola Reservoir and Rapid Creek Watershed in the Black Hills National Forest. The order removes 20,510 ...

The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of South Dakota’s Black Hills. The ban covers 32 square miles of federally owned land ...

SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) — More than 20,000 acres of land and water in the Pactola Reservoir will be safe from any possible drilling or mining for the next 20 years, according to a news release ...

The project’s location is in the Jenney Gulch area of the Black Hills National Forest, within a mile of Pactola Reservoir. The man-made mountain lake is the largest and deepest reservoir in the ...