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,…
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Governor Kristi Noem announced last week that her team has updated the state website to promote “citizen-focused digital government.” Digital government means more digits: Innovation…
Former Game Fish and Parks Secretary and Commissioner John Cooper has questioned the Governor’s Nest Predator Bounty Program since its inception in 2019. Cooper summarized…
Bart Pfankuch of South Dakota News Watch goes looking for science showing that Governor Kristi Noem’s vaunted Nest Predator Bounty Program is boosting our pheasant…
South Dakota News Watch catches up with my notes on the happy face South Dakota state government is trying to put on the long-declining pheasant-hunting industry.…
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…
Another advantage of printing veggie steaks is that when a drought hits, we don’t have to decimate pheasant habitat to feed our cattle. But wildlife…
Game Fish & Parks wants to give hunters more hours and more weeks to shoot more pheasants. But South Dakotans seem to be much less…