Black Hills National Forest
Last night we went to the theatre in Spearfish. We saw a show called Phantom of Mathews Opera House. It was a spoof of Phantom of the Opera. Nice little theatre…the show a bit wacky…it was a farce…which of course Americans will not call it because that is a British term…they call it slapstick! Today we traveled through the Black Hills National Forest. It is touted as being an example of the US Federal Government preserving nature. For the entire 200 kilometres that we traveled through it, we saw ‘zero’ wildlife but saw lots of other things that made us wonder exactly what nature they were preserving. We saw clear cut logging. We saw houses and more being built. We saw cattle grazing and farmers baling hay. We saw campgrounds and all sorts of other businesses. We saw a Lake, but it was actually a reservoir created by a dam built for flood protection and availability of water for Rapid City and the nearby Military...