Two straight seasons of sub-quota mountain lion hunts suggest the Black Hills puma population is declining. To keep the Hills thrill quotient high, here come bears: Wyatt McCoy lives on the banks of the Belle Fourche River. During the comings…
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Fellow Lake Herman expatriate Elisa Sand wrote this week of two 19-year-olds passing through Aberdeen on a walk from Seattle to New York City. Evidently crossing South Dakota on Highway 12 hasn't given Cameron Coupe and Zan Roman a great…
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…
Farmer and pheasant-hunt host David Gillen opines in the Pierre Capital Journal that the Conservation Reserve Program is bad for pheasants and South Dakota wealth: Full 160-acre tracts of CRP are not that desirable for young chicks. After a couple…
Larry Kurtz is right: Governor Dennis Daugaard's Pheasant Habitat Summit in Huron yesterday was an exercise in absurdity. Daugaard spent time and money gathering hundreds of South Dakotans to fret and stew over the decline of a non-native species caused…
Rep. Kristi Noem is working hard in Washington, reaching across the aisles to support her long-standing effort to tackle tough issues like naming the bison the national mammal: Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) proposed the bill, H.R. 3400, along with…
My friend, Spearfish debate coach, avid outdoorsman, and known Republican Bob Speirs writes the case for saving the historic D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery from the mindless Washington budget axe: For a budding ornithologist, there are few places in the Black…
Well, since Pat says X, I guess I have to say not-X... Dakota War College portrays the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's enforcement of rules as tyranny against a six-year-old calling for Congressional action. Six-year-old Madison Grimm from Burbank, South…