Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war… but don’t be siccing your pooches on the mountain lions, says the Game Fish and Parks…
Tag: hunting
A couple weeks ago, Governor Kristi Noem made a big whoop-de-whoo about National Travel and Tourism Week. Last week she evidently celebrated international tourism by…
For all her celebration of hunting in South Dakota, Governor Kristi Noem isn’t listening to South Dakota hunters. Her Game Fish and Parks Commission evidently…
Governor Kristi Noem conflates Freedom™ with guns and hunting. But an essay by Iowa researcher and author Chris Jones gets me thinking about how much…
President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is also a Prairie Pothole Restoration Act. South Dakota will benefit from $23 million of Inflation Reduction Act money…
Aggressive marketing, a second year of extending the pheasant season through January, and a third year of paying South Dakotans to trap raccoon, skunk, fox,…
Last year the House rejected House Bill 1112, which sought to expand the no-shooting zone around occupied buildings, churches, schoolhouses, and livestock from 660 feet…
Long-time Minneapolis Star Tribune outdoors writer Dennis Anderson loves South Dakota, or at least our hunting. He refers to us as the “Helen of Troy” of…
The Governor and Game Fish and Parks last week posted the final numbers for the Nest Predator Bounty Program. In our third year of offering…
We can’t count pheasants, but we’ll sure count pheasant hunters. Bob Mercer describes the 62,289 nonresident pheasant-hunting licenses we sold last year as a modern…