South Dakota legislation · 100th Legislature (2025)
South Dakota SCR605: Promoting a resilient and healthy Black Hills forest through active forest management and retention of the current forest products industry.
Status: Passed both chambers, February 19, 2025
What the bill says
An Act A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Promoting a resilient and healthy Black Hills forest through active forest management and retention of the current forest products industry.
From the enrolled text:
An Act A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Promoting a resilient and healthy Black Hills forest through active forest management and retention of the current forest products industry. WHEREAS, all South Dakota citizens benefit from resilient and healthy national, state, and private forests; and WHEREAS, resilient and healthy forests enable socioeconomic stability and development, forest products generation, recreational diversity, tourism trade, hunting and angling opportunities, grazing and foraging resource availability, wildlife habitat enhancement, water quality and quantity improvement, quality of life enrichment, and general community well-being; and WHEREAS, dense forests promote increasingly damaging wildfires, which can threaten and destroy homes, habitat, and natural resources; and WHEREAS, dense forests encourage destructive and costly mountain pine beetle epidemics; and WHEREAS, pine beetle populations have been expanding the last three years in the Black Hills; and WHEREAS, in the absence of increased active forest management, the Black Hills of South Dakota will experience wildfires of greater severity and further pine beetle epidemics; and WHEREAS, further reductions to the forest products industry will occur without substantially increased active forest management actions that include the harvesting of sawtimber and post-sized and pole-sized material along with pre-commercial treatments; and WHEREAS, although the United States Forest Service holds the majority of the forested land in this state, all South Dakotans benefit from well-managed forests, and all should have a voice …
Sponsors
- Randy Deibert (R, SD-031) · primary sponsor
- Mary Fitzgerald (R, HD-031) · primary sponsor
- Casey Crabtree (R, SD-008)
- Sydney Davis (R, 17)
- Mike Derby (R, HD-034)
- Helene Duhamel (R, SD-032)
- Larson, Liz (D)
- Curt Massie (R, HD-033)
- Scott Moore (R, HD-023)
- Carl Perry (R, 03)
- John Sjaarda (R, HD-002)
Latest actions
- : Concurred in Resolution
- : First read in House and referral to committee waived pursuant to JR 6D-1
- : Adopt Resolution
- : Remove from Consent Calendar
- : Certified uncontested, placed on consent
- : Adopt Resolution
- : Scheduled for hearing
- : Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources
- : First Reading Senate
Votes
- Concurred in Resolution (February 21, 2025): 63 yea, 6 nay, passed
- Adopt Resolution (February 19, 2025): 32 yea, 2 nay, passed
- Adopt Resolution (February 13, 2025): 5 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Senate Concurrent Resolution
Common questions
- What is SCR605?
- SCR605 is a bill in the South Dakota Legislature (100th Legislature (2025)): Promoting a resilient and healthy Black Hills forest through active forest management and retention of the current forest products industry.
- What does SCR605 do?
- In its own words: An Act A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Promoting a resilient and healthy Black Hills forest through active forest management and retention of the current forest products industry.
- What is the status of SCR605?
- Passed both chambers as of February 19, 2025. Latest action: Concurred in Resolution (February 21, 2025).
- Who sponsored SCR605?
- Randy Deibert (R, SD-031), with 10 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for SCR605?
- On the South Dakota Legislature website: https://sdlegislature.gov/Session/Bill/26226
Source: official South Dakota record. Tracked by Delilah, AI for legislation across all 50 states and Congress.