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Center is operated by the Oglala Sioux Parks and Recreation Authority and staffed by tribal members. The South Unit of the Badlands, which lies entirely within the Pine Ridge reservation, sees far less visitors than the more developed North Unit.
• Bull Bear is planning a slew of activities and programs focusing on Lakota culture for the summer months to entice visitors to the South Unit, including arts and crafts for kids, demonstrations of buffalo hide tanning and song and dance demonstrations.
• "We want them to understand our way of life -- how we lived with the land and in nature," he said. "Our way of life, I suppose, is different, but to us it's natural."
• Craig Pugsley, the Visitors Service Coordinator at Custer State Park, said two staff members are planning to attend the training. He said Custer State Park officials found last year's training beneficial to incorporating the Lakota culture into programming initiatives at the park.
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• Some parts of South Dakota need moisture
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A lack of moisture is causing concern in some parts of South Dakota after another week of warm, windy weather.
• The Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop and weather report that topsoil moisture overall still is rated 81 percent adequate to surplus, and subsoil moisture is rated 79 percent in those categories.
• Range and pasture conditions in the state are rated 72 percent in good to excellent condition.
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