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  • Survey planes recording area data

    Aug 7, 2024

    The United States Geological Survey and agencies from four states recently announced low-level airplane flights in the Central Great Plains. Scientists from Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska are partnering to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The aircraft and crews being used are currently being flown out of the O'Neill Airport. The geophysical survey will focus on the buried Spirit Lake tectonic zone, centered in the area between Sioux Fall sand Omaha. The region is...

  • Supervisors table 30 x 30 resolution

    LuAnn Schindler, Publisher|May 20, 2021

    A potential resolution denouncing President Biden's Executive Order 14008, dubbed the 30 x 30 land grab, will have to wait, after Holt County Supervisors tabled the item during Monday's meeting in O'Neill. The executive order, titled "Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad," directed the secretary of the interior, secretary of agriculture and other senior officials to devise and submit a plan, by April 27, to conserve 30% of lands and waterways in the United States by 2030. According to...