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…
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Spearfish residents and visitors will enjoy at least one more year of feeding trout and ducks in one of the prettiest spots in South Dakota. The D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery, a historic haven nestled in the outlet of Spearfish Canyon…
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…
State Senator Dan Lederman got his friends Senator John Thune and Rep. Kristi Noem to join him in his hyperbolic, government- and environment-loathing lie that the perfectly sensible Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs conservation area plan is a dangerous federal…
Rep. Kristi Noem has signed on with Republican colleagues in Nebraska to gripe and moan about the Niobrara Confluence and Ponca Bluffs Conservation Area. Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska griped back in June that his constituents hadn't had enough time…
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…
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…
Senator Dan Lederman (R-16/Dakota Dunes) is hollering about outsiders taking away South Dakotans' and Nebraskans' property rights. No, he's not finally getting his property-rights ducks in a row and protesting TransCanada's use of eminent domain to seize land for its…