Forest Nurseries -- South Dakota

Scope and Contents This series contains Big Sioux Nursery legal papers, history, correspondence, and supporting documentation. Game, Fish & Parks administered Big Sioux Nursery until the early 1980s, when it was transferred to the Department of Agriculture. The nursery struggled financially, so the Department of Agriculture turned administration over to a nonprofit organization on June 1, 1996. Big Sioux Nursery Vol. 1...

Scope and Contents This series contains Big Sioux Nursery press releases, newspaper clippings, tree sales reports and inventories, statistics, staff lists, meeting notes, building appraisals, and correspondence. Game, Fish and Parks administered Big Sioux Nursery until the early 1980s, when it was transferred to the Department of Agriculture. The nursery struggled financially, so the Department of Agriculture turned administration over to a nonprofit organization on June 1, 1996. Although the...

Scope and Contents From the Record Group: This record group consists of records created and/or maintained by the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish, and Parks between 1857 and 2013 and includes administrative records such as annual reports, audits, budgets, property inventories, and correspondence; Game, Fish and Parks Commission meeting minutes and audio recordings; abstracts of title, deeds, and technical reconnaissance reports for lands purchased by the department; agriculture and grazing lease agreements; forest inventory...

Scope and Contents Consists of a single folder containing memoranda, correspondence, and copies of news clippings concerning public reaction to the use of prison inmate labor at Sioux Conifer Nursery near Watertown, S.D. between 1983 and 1985.