Rep. Betty Olson (R-28/Prairie City) hates mountain lions. She also hates coherent essays, as I have the pleasure of reading each week in the pile of random observations she submits to the Black Hills Pioneer. But if you squint hard…
Posts tagged as “wildlife”
Enjoy that walleye while you can: we're losing our freshwater fish species at an alarming rate: North American freshwater fishes are going extinct at an alarming rate compared with other species, according to an article in the September issue of…
Rep. Kristi Noem voted with the House GOP majority last Tuesday in favor of HR 4089, the Sportsmen's Heritage Act, also known as the Recreational Shooting Protection Act. The bill purports to protect hunters' rights to enjoy the chase on…
The South Dakota House of Representatives came together yesterday to pass HB 1117 to allow South Dakotans to shoot muskrats. At the same time, the South Dakota Senate put its shoulder to advancing SB 114 to make the buffalo our…
The Legislature is on the hunt with a pack of bills targeting South Dakota's #1 problem: varmints! HB 1074 adds Brown, Day, Marshall, and Spink Counties to a list of areas exempted from limitations on hunting muskrats. Open season on…
Your tax dollars at work: in 2010, the United States Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Damage Management program rubbed out over five million undesirable critters nationwide. Included on the hit list: 14 alligators 452 wolves 527 badgers 586 black bears 27,219…
I speak as a South Dakotan and a graduate of South Dakota State University. Someone disgraces South Dakota State University and good outdoorspeople of all school colors by hanging a dead coyote on USD's amusingly snarky billboard in Brookings Tuesday.…
Captain Obvious takes a turn writing headlines for KELO: "KELOLand Drivers Likely to Strike Deer." My neighbors with venison on their grilles all groan in unison, "No kidding!" But the numbers from State Farm Insurance are interesting: South Dakota drivers…