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nearly all of the company's efforts are currently focused on sending the storm damaged trees through the wood chipper.
• Poet Biorefining General Manager Dean Frederickson says the plant is currently burning about 700 tons of wood per week.
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Author to present book on Wounded Knee occupation
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Forty years after the 73-day occupation at Wounded Knee, there is still lots of pain and many questions about what truly happened.
• That's according to an author of a new book examining the occupation and the last meeting between all the major players.
• Stew Magnuson is a Washington-based journalist. He will be in Sioux Falls on Saturday to present his new book, "Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding," at the Dakota Conference at the Center for Western Studies at Augustana College.
• "Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding," which is published in ebook and traditional form, tells the story of the occupation and the gathering of the major and minor characters at last year's Dakota Conference.
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School of Mines names Wilson as new president
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- Businesswoman and former New Mexico congresswoman Heather Wilson has been named president of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the state Board of Regents announced Thursday.
• Wilson, 51, succeeds Robert Wharton, who died in September. She'll begin her duties on the Rapid City campus in June.
• Wilson represented New Mexico in the U.S. Congress from 1998 to 2009, serving on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and as chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence.
• Wilson, who comes from a family of pilots, is an Air Force Academy graduate and Rhodes scholar who has been a defense consultant since leaving the House. Through her Albuquerque business, Wilson has worked as a senior adviser to top-tier national laboratories such as Sandia, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, the Nevada Test Site and the Battelle Memorial Institute.
• She turned down a top management post at Sandia National Laboratories to make a second unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate last year.
• Wilson won a special election in 1998 to replace the late GOP Rep. Steve Schiff. She developed a reputation as a tough campaigner by repeatedly winning re- (Continued on page 20)
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