The new governor wants to put a 10 dollar bounty on skunks, coons,possum,fox and Badgers. They have not given a lot of info on it, kinda looks like it may only run April through July...Coyotes will be addressed in a different manner... Not real sure how I feel about this.

first ive heard of it ... she must be a bird hunter..

There was an article on it in todays Mitchell daily republic. Yes, it is a plan to save nesting birds.

Maybe she will kick that anti game commissioner to the curb soon too. Heck the way its going badgers are about the only thing we have anymore around here starting to look like Illinois all over again!

They cut back on the CRP and I see the wheat is planted fence row to fence row in a lot of places now and I am starting to see more slash and burning now they are just making the predators the bad guys. The GFP will just raise their fees AGAIN to pay the bounty back to us, no thanks.

Where are they going to get the money to pay a bounty...? The state never really has much extra money unless the GFP is going to pay for it by hiking license fees again.

Well they never get tired of that your new license for 2019 will cost you more even though you do the work filling it out! LOL Never ending it seems can't think of a fee or tax out great Governor has not increased.

There's your answer! There is always a pool to draw from,..ever be it so subtle ,...no one wants to question an established entity,..it is all available!

I know large numbers of people from Ohio go pheasant hunting in South Dakota. Most spend many hundreds to thousands of dollars. Increasing pheasant numbers to get more hunter/tourist dollars seems like it would make good sense.

Keith

Well the anti's will have a hay day over this...especially when badger are being on the species at risk catagory

If the state says so,..have at it!

I don't believe they have put much thought into this. First of all - there will be a wave of coon from neighboring states, plus a mad dash for roadkills. How can they limit it to certain months- we all have freezers. The answer to our dwindling pheasant numbers has always been obvious - HABITAT Why not tell every farmer who farms the right of ways they have to pay rent on those acres. OR if you want to be federally insured you have to put 10 percent of your acres in conservation. When CRP was in full swing we had countless birds - the federal govt can fix this with a stroke of a pen

I see the same thing in my area. Guys complaining about lack of game and blame it on predators. Yet this time of year you can walk for miles without hitting any grass or brush over your tennis shoes. Most every ditch around here is buzzed down a couple times a year to golf course length grass. With good habitat predator numbers don't matter.

This some it up .Seen the same in this state for how the birds was and are now. they are just make a come back around my area. Some ground is going back into CRP since grain is down. That helps some .Years ago when grain was not like it was there was alot of CRP and also birds and other wildlife ,But when grain came up so did the CRP ws taken out of the program and now grain is down so CRP is show up now more.

Thats a little overboard... maybe a relaxed season but a bounty???

Fence rows are an endangered species here. They used to connect cover to cover, state to state. Most are gone along with wildlife. CRP and KREP programs really helped...then corn went to $8 and beans over $15. Bye bye cover. Well we see where we’re at now. Not even close

Below is a link to the article in the Mitchell Daily Republic, the governor’s proposal is discussed toward the end of the article.

A love for the fur market- https://www.mitchellrepublic.com/sp...ridgewaters-potter-fur-company-sd-rarity

10 free live traps per land owner, that could be a lot of traps.

Supposedly the SD "shoulder season", mostly based on pheasants, is a 200 million $ industry with all the trickle-down and recycling of money. I may po some of my fellow state tman guys but this industry is fairly selective in who actually is getting and cycling that money. I suppose I benefit from it because the state hasn;t cranked up the sales tax burden on the citizens (I currently pay 7.5% sales tax on most of my in-state purchases, including food (state- 4.5%, my local munis 3%) and some of that 200 million may go into funding state Walk-In Areas ($1-2 an acre to the landowner) for public access, but other than that its pretty much invisible to me, especally after I moved from Sioux Falls where the pheasant-money people may do weekend spree shopping. I certainly don't have a pile of Uncle Bens to drop into the hand of good pheassy habitat landowner so I, and a lot of the resident hunters, pick off the bird crumbs on the periphery.

The federal gov isn't overly interested in a non-native species unless there are other ecosystem services, such as improved water quality with more habitat (probably) and if they could reduce their other USDA paymnets to rural South Dakotans. But the latter isn't going to happen even with much improved pheasant habitat so the selling point for pumping CRP back up to pre-2007 numbers would have to be more desired environmental consequences of increased federal land idling. I would lijke to see more CREP CRP because there must be a clause in that provision that allows public access to that land because CREP parcels are shown on the state hunting atalses published e ach year.

There is no current season on any of those species except if you are trapping within 30 feet of water, then the muskrat/mink/beaver start date is in effect.

The state pen "industry" makes very nice, large live traps. 10 per landowner would be at least a $500 gift to landowners. Sounds like a good gig. Don't know if the inmates could supply enough though...

I wonder what the criteria will be. for the live traps as it says "up to 10 traps per land owner" .I agree with this not being thought through. I think it will be a disaster.