Get ready for controversy: legal eagle and Senate President Pro-Tem Lee Schoenbeck (R-5/Watertown) is lawyering into the whitecaps of South Dakota’s nonmeandered waters issue! In…
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The Legislature has decided that its 2017 Special Session resolution of the nonmeandered waters issue is good enough for the foreseeable future. Of the eight bills…
Should State Take Responsibility for Roads to Nonmeandered Lakes? My neighbor to the north Herb Schaunaman got legislators at Saturday’s Aberdeen crackerbarrel talking about House…
Senate Bill 24, Governor Dennis Daugaard’s proposal to extend last summer’s stopgap nonmeandered waters bill for three years, through June 2021, goes before Senate Agriculture…
The 2017 Legislature held a whole special session to deal with nonmeandered waters (Rep. Kevin Jensen appears to call them “rogue lakes“—sounds like a job…
Under what Game Fish and Parks calls the “Open Waters Compromise,” landowners have closed nine nonmeandered lakes to public access. GF&P appears to think the…
At its meeting this week Thursday and Friday in Sioux Falls, the Game Fish and Parks Commission hears its first petition to close a portion…
Attorney General Marty Jackley has signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief with Nevada and eight other states challenging a U.S. Ninth Circuit decision that federal…
Game Fish & Parks has issued the form landowners can file to petition for the closure of “Section 8” nonmeandered lakes, the recently formed bodies…
Anyone wishing to shift any grief over the Legislature’s stopgap action on nonmeandered waters to the Department of Game Fish & Parks should note GF&P’s…