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Posts tagged as “conservation”

Werner Promotes Waterfowl Hunting Privileges for Folks with Family in SD

While we debate why there aren't enough pheasants to shoot, Rep. Dick Werner (R-22/Huron) wants to turn more guns on our ducks. Rep. Werner plans to sponsor legislation that would expand non-residents' ability to get waterfowl licenses. Right now, we…

Corn vs. Cottonwoods: SD Must Plow More Acres to Meet Global Demand

The Missouri River dams, riverside development, and changing land use are eliminating our prairie cottonwood forests. The Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs conservation plans could protect those cottonwood stands, among other things. But growing global demand livestock could clobber cottonwoods…

Niobrara-Ponca Conservation Areas Would Improve Adjoining Land Values

Boyd County (Nebraska)'s resolution of opposition to the Niobrara/Ponca conservation plan and to government land ownership and conservation in general declares this public goal: ...to discourage land use development or use that will lower or impair the value of the…

Lederman, Boyd County Oppose Niobrara-Ponca Conservation, Want Higher Taxes

Senator Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) continues to peddle his malarkey about the pretty cool and totally voluntary Niobrara/Ponca conservation plan being a "federal land grab." In his latest propaganda, Senator Lederman posts a resolution from the clearly misguided Boyd County…