RAPID CITY - The Rapid City Trap Club will host its Hunter's League trap shooting series beginning on Aug. 5 and running through Sept. 30 at the skeet and sporting range east of the Trap Club

house three miles south of Catron Boulevard on Highway 79.

Shooting starts at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and continues until dark. There will be a total of 250 clay birds including skeet, wobbles skeet, sporting clays, poachers sporting clays and wobbles doubles.

All are welcome, but there are spaces for only 35 shooters.

For more information, call Paul Vinatieri at 391-8402, or Mike Finnegan at 391-6057, or go to www.rapidcitytrapclub.com.

Great Lakes Association offers new birding guide

PIERRE - The South Dakota Great Lakes Birding Trail Guide promotes some of the best places to view wildlife in central South Dakota.

This is the third in a series of birding trail guides developed by a group of sponsors recognizing the enormous potential to link accessible natural places with the increasing number of wildlife watchers, both residents and visitors.

To request your copy of the South Dakota Great Lakes Birding Trail contact the Great Lakes Association at 605-224-4617 or www.sdgreatlakes.org or the South Dakota Office of Tourism at (800)S-DAKOTA or by emailing at sdinfo@state.sd.us or go to www.sdgfp.info/Wildlife/Diversity/BirdingTrailRequest.htm.

Biologist earns award at the national level

PIERRE - A biologist with the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department has been selected by The Wildlife Society for a national award.

Senior wildlife biologist and wildlife diversity coordinator Eileen Dowd Stukel, of Pierre has been selected to receive The Wildlife Society's Jim McDonough Award.

Dowd Stukel has coordinated grant programs in addition to soliciting more than 150 conservation-minded organizations to endorse the Teaming with Wildlife initiative. She has written or directed action plans dealing with wildlife, bird conservation, bat management and threatened and endangered species along the Missouri River.