The Prairie Hills Audubon Society meets Friday in the Spearfish City Park for a potluck and discussion of trapping reform and other topics. Here’s PHAS Pres. Nancy Hilding’s invite:
To Audubon members and friends
The next PHAS meeting is June 28th
Spearfish City Park, in the north shelter.PHAS’s next monthly meeting is the evening of Friday June 28th at the Spearfish City Park, in the north shelter.
It will be on current campaigns, such as trapping reform, stopping nest predator bounty program, the region’s mountain lion management, our greater sage grouse litigation and other PHAS campaigns and business.
Start times: 6:00-6:45 potluck and meeting 6:45-8:45. Public is welcome
For information – Nancy Hilding, 605-787-6466
To find the north shelter, go to intersection of N Canyon/S Canyon with West Dakota Street & walk across the Park towards Spearfish Creek [PHAS, invitation, received by DFP 2019.06.25]
Rapid City neighbors can walk to PHAS’s working meeting on Monday, July 1, at the Rapid City Dakota Rural Action office on Jackson Boulevard:
Monday, July 1st, 2019: PHAS next networking meeting on trapping reform, nest predator bounty program & mountain lions is at DRA’s office in Rapid City on July 1st, in the evening. 2650 Jackson Blvd. Rapid City 57702. Potluck at 6 pm & meeting at 6:30 pm.
The major focus of the meeting will be to discuss reform of SD’s trapping regulations, such as ending the nest predator bounty program, but other needed reforms to SD trapping rules/law will be discussed and strategies to achieve such. We will also discuss GFP’s mountain lion management plan revision, which is expected to be released for public comment in July. We also plan to discuss the Pennington County Comprehensive Plan Revision. We may discuss any other campaigns and/or other SD environmental issues needing networking, if the trapping & cougar discussions are exhausted before attendance dissolves. This will be a working meeting, where we discuss what needs to be done. All folks interested in trapping reform in SD are welcome. For info – Nancy 787-6466 [PHAS, 2019.06.25].
Current trapping count: since April 1, 28,854 tails submitted: 21,900 raccoon, 4,200 striped skunk, 2,300 opossum, 267 red fox, and 206 badger.
Nice picture. Looks like Drumpf era de-regulated mass transit. Hang on for your life.
A friend of mine recently saved a clutch of pheasant eggs from a nest in a ditch that had been mowed over and the mother killed. Luckily she managed to incubate and hatch nine out of the 11 eggs. Perhaps if the governor did something about making sure ditches weren’t mowed too early in the season we wouldn’t have to worry about killing other Wildlife to preserve a non-native species.
That’s funny Mike.
“trapping reform, nest predator bounty program & mountain lions”
What does PHAS have to say about Noem’s goofy tail plan? What’s going on with cougars?
Killing possums is dumb. They cause no harm and eat tons of ticks.
They aren’t pretty though, but they sure aren’t what I would call a varmint
Opossums are ugly indeed, much like grudznick, and both serve a purpose in the ecological balance of nature. But golly, those tails sure do give me the willies.
Grudzilla, with a ‘possum tail you and er friends could hang upside down in your evolutionary trees.
Nancy has been a leader on environmental issues for four decades in South Dakota and before that in Hawaii. She has worked to make the Black Hills a better place. She always sends me the PHAS newsletter and alerts even though I’ve been gone for two decades. In recent years she has concentrated her efforts on public lands and wildlife issues. Nancy, I think, is a genius. She always strives to bring everyone’s ideas forward. Glad to see you giving her some added publicity.