Logging -- South Dakota

Scope and Contents This series contains records regarding forestry and timber lands under the authority of the Department of School and Public lands. The first box contains regarding the sale, bidding for and rights to timber plots around the state and is arranged alphabetically by plot name and thereunder chronologically as needed. Bidders and buyers of the plots included private individuals as well as larger logging companies. The second and third boxes contain scalers’ reports. The reports were recorded in...

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...