Grasslands just take the lead in making those available. “Those services include building soil health, sequestering carbon, improving water infiltration, enhancing flood control and drought management, along with providing hunting opportunities, to name a few. “As producers, we’ve really overlooked the value of ecosystem services grassland provides for the land,” he says. For their conservation efforts, they received in 2009 the Region VII Environmental Stewardship Award from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.įaulstich’s role as former chair and now vice chair of the South Dakota Grassland Coalition involves him in land-use issues on a broader stage. The marginal cropland that now grows grass provides managed grazing for the family’s 350-cow beef herd along with habitat for pheasants and other wildlife for their commercial hunting enterprise.
Markets Analysis Back to Markets Analysis. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Dickinson Press, nor Forum ownership. "Hope's Corner" is a weekly humorous column centered on a message of hope for residents in southwest North Dakota. Jackie Hope is the longest running Dickinson Press contributor and columnist. And I will be using the downstairs bathroom until I find out how long a spider can live in the dark. And the roll of toilet paper is nearly down to its last square, and there is no way I am changing the roll. No spider sighting, but the Charmin package did start to melt.Ī week later, the spider is still holed up in the closet. He thought he could blow away the spider with the hair dryer. My husband rummaged around behind the boxes and toilet paper, but the Itsy Bitsy Spider had gone up something or other again. I figure a thief is not gonna look behind the Irish Spring to rob me of my mama’s silver spoons, okay? Yes, I keep my good silverware in the linen closet. The spider ran under my box of good silverware. My husband finally understood my plea to mean, “Kill the spider or buy me a new house,” so he opened the closet door. It also had grown several sizes larger and probably had venomous fangs. By that time the spider had come back down the wall and crawled under the linen closet door. Katie the Wonder Puppy came running to my aid. Now, really, what could possibly be wrong when someone is screaming, “Spider!” at the top of their lungs? Could it mean that I dropped the soap? Could it mean I needed help drying off? My long-suffering spouse shouted from the kitchen to inquire what was wrong. I panicked and started screaming, “Spider! Spider!” What else is fuzzy and black and goes up the wall at 90 miles per hour? I did the only sensible thing. Could the air conditioner vent be blowing around the floor flug? Or was the floor flug really a fly? I poked at the flying flug with my wet toe, and the flug went skittering up the wall. I bent over to pick up the lint, and it moved across the floor. That evening, however, there was a piece of black lint on the floor under the towel. I stepped out of the shower and picked up my towel off the floor, just as I do every evening. I also did not have my glasses on, which led to a case of mistaken identity. Wet is not a good thing to be when you meet someone or something new. 
The creature immediately had me at a disadvantage, since I was wet. I met the spider a few nights ago, as I was exiting the shower.
I think it is the size of a dinner plate. There is a spider living in our linen closet.
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