The 66th annual motorcycle rally is being ushered in by controversy about two new entertainment venues rising from grasslands north and south of Bear Butte State Park.
Native Americans who consider the butte sacred are joined by area ranchers who have seen livestock sicken and die from inhaling dust continually kicked up by motorcycles cruising gravel roads.
Their coalition also includes townspeople who contend their community is being strip-mined by rally vendors who make millions of dollars from hundreds of thousands of rallygoers but leave little of that money in Sturgis and Meade County, where municipal services are strained to host all the bikers every August.
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