DEADWOOD, S.D. (AP) - State agriculture officials are co-hosting two workshops this month on how to identify and treat mountain pine beetles in the Black Hills.
The workshops will focus on the benefits and methods of treating trees to protect them from mountain pine beetles. Presenters will also address how forests can be managed to reduce the impacts of future mountain pine beetle outbreaks.
Workshops will be held April 21 in the Lodge at Deadwood, in Deadwood, and April 23 in the Custer County Annex, in Custer.
Agriculture officials say the preventative spraying portion of the workshops will address techniques and chemicals used to treat trees.
Brian Garbisch with the state’s Resource Conservation and Forestry Division says the movement of mountain pine beetles onto private lands has increased the interest in having pines sprayed.
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