Fact sheet describing state-specific impacts that global warming will have on the people, ecosystems, and wildlife in South Dakota.

Document outlining state-specific goals for carbon dioxide emissions and energy efficiency through 2030 for the state of South Dakota.

Community Correspondence - Letter from Frank E. Blasingame, Lt. Col (Ret) to the BRAC Commission regarding Ellsworth AFB.

Community Input - Substantial Cost Savings in Closing Ellsworth and Transferring the B-1s to Dyess - Ellsworth Air Force Base -

Executive Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/22/05 to Chairman Principi from SD Senator John Thune enclosing for the Commission’s review a savings analysis document refuting the projected savings claimed by DoD regarding the proposed closure of Ellsworth AFB.

Community Correspondence – Letter dtd 08/16/2005 to Chairman Principi and all Commissioners from John Michael Loh, General, USAF (Ret) as a follow-up to sworn testimony of June 21 at Rapid City, the General writes to provide a succinct summary of his logic and set of arguments supporting the retention of Ellsworth AFB and its B- 1 bombers.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from South Dakota Sen. Johnson, Sen. Thune, Gov. Rounds, Rep. Herseth to Chairman Principi dtd 17 Aug 05 regarding Ellsworth AFB. Letter from retired USAF Gen. Loh is enclosed.

Letter regarding a recent legal challenge to a bombing initiative on an Air Force base, mentioning BRAC closures as well.

Community Correspondence - Letter from a concerned citizen in regards to Ellsworth AFB

Base Summary Sheet - Ellsworth Air Force base South Dakota

28th BW is global attack -- putting bombs on targets

I am deeply troubled by the Defense Department's proposal to consolidate the entire B-1 bomber fleet. The B-1s stationed at Ellsworth have been integral to our national defense and have completed combat missions in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq.

Executive Correspondence - Letter from South Dakota Governor M. Michael rounds to Chairman Anthony J. Principi regarding Ellsworth Air Force Base.

Interview with Robert Edward Sieker, a pilot from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Sieker discusses his grandfather's immigration from Germany. In addition to his stories from his extensive flying career, he also talks about his service in the military during World War II, his various occupations throughout the years, and his work against the screwworm infestation.

Interview with John Hargrove, a Army Air Corps WWII veteran from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hargrove discusses growing up and his family background, being drafted into the Air Corps, training, assignment to the 18th Reconnaissance Squadron, 22nd Bomb Group at Langley Field as a radio operator, life and work at Langley, transition to the B-26, the start of the war, submarine patrol, deployment to Townsville, Australia via Hawaii, flying his first mission, liberty and recreation, bombing and close air support missions, the crew being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, losses, returning to the US, work as a radio instructor, meeting his wife, postwar service, and reflections on the atomic bomb. In appendix is a manuscript for an autobiography written by Hargrove, an addendum to the interview, and a letter to Ron Marcello making corrections to the interview.

Founded in 1879 by John L. Hinners, the Hinners Organ Company developed a number of stock models of small mechanical-action instruments that were advertised throughout the Midwest. Operating without outside salesmen, the company was one of the first to conduct all of its affairs by mail, including the financial arrangements, selection of the basic design, and custom alterations where required. Buyers first met a company representative when he arrived by train to set up the crated instrument that had been shipped ahead of him. Tracker organs with hand-operated bellows were easily repaired by local craftsmen, and were suited to an area that, for the most part, lacked electricity. In all, the company constructed nearly three thousand pipe organs during its sixty years of operation. Rapid decline of the firm began in the decade prior to 1936 during which the company sold fewer than one hundred instruments, and closed in that year when John's son Arthur found himself without sufficient financial resources to weather the lengthy depression. The studies of the original-condition Hinners organs in the Dakotas include extensive photographs and measurements, and provide an excellent cross section of the smaller instruments produced by the company. They are loud, excellently crafted, …

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Buffalo-Lignite detail area.

Documentation outlining characteristics of field data samples taken in the Buffalo-Lignite detail area.

Data gathered at stream sediment sites in the Buffalo-Lignite detail area, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity) and elemental analyses.

Data gathered at well water sites in the Buffalo-Lignite detail area, including applicable water chemistry measurements (e.g., pH, conductivity, alkalinity), physical measurements (e.g., temperature, well description, scintillometer readings), and elemental analyses.

The following report gives detailed results of the geochemical survey taken in Buffalo-Lignite, South Dakota. Field and laboratory data are presented for 163 groundwater and 660 stream sediment samples collected within the Custer and Slim Buttes project areas.

From abstract: Results of a reconnaissance geochemical survey of the Alliance Quadrangle are reported. Field and laboratory data are presented for 543 groundwater and 523 stream sediment samples.

Data collected as part of a report on the Alliance Quadrangle in Nebraska and South Dakota including laboratory data on well water and stream sediments as well as field data.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about film furnished by companies, public relations firms and other organizations which are outside of the new gathering business.