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• Winter wheat conditions were rated 30 percent very poor, 43 percent poor, 22 percent fair, 5 percent good and 0 percent excellent.
• Calving was 60 percent complete and lambing was 78 percent complete.
• Cattle and calf conditions were rated as 2 percent very poor, 7 percent poor, 27 percent fair, 57 percent good, and 7 percent excellent.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- State prison inmates and staff from the South Dakota State Penitentiary have begun to help clean up tree limbs that fell in the Sioux Falls area during last week's storm.
• The state Corrections Department says the effort includes five crews, each with 10 minimum-security inmates and one staff member. The crews include hand laborers and trained chain-saw operators.
• Tree limbs and branches are being cut into smaller sections and then loaded into waiting trucks for removal.
• Last week's storm dumped freezing rain and heavy snow in the area, snapping tree branches and downing power lines.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Sioux Falls officials have a request: Don't park near downed trees or piles of debris.
• The trees and branches that snapped and fell during last week's winter storm need to be sorted. KELO-TV reports that arborists began arriving by the dozens early Monday.
• Sioux Falls Fire Rescue Chief Jim Sideras says that cars parked in front of the piles will slow cleanup efforts.
• As of Monday morning, most of the thousands of customers in southeast South Dakota who lost power had it restored. The National Weather Service predicts another 3 to 4 inches starting late Tuesday.
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• KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A landowner trying to sell a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in South Dakota said Monday he has three offers from West Coast-based investment groups for the land that sits adjacent to where about 150 of the 300 Lakota men, women and children killed by the 7th Cavalry in

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