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Rapid City Journal
GF&P 50-lion limit proposal higher than staff recommends
Kevin Woster, Journal staff
For the second straight year, the state Game, Fish & Parks Commission is proposing a mountain lion season that would kill more cats than its staff recommended.
Meeting in Aberdeen on Friday, the commission proposed a 2011 lion season that would allow hunters to [...]
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Rapid City Journal
Kevin Woster Journal staff
The biological staff of the state Game, Fish & Parks Department is recommending a 2011 mountain lion season that will allow a total of 45 lions to be killed, including five in Custer State Park.
That would be an overall increase of five from the 40-lion limit for the 2010 season [...]
The Black Hills cougar population is extremely important to the recovery of cougar populations in the Midwest. It’s likely that a high percentage of the scattered subadult male dispersers now showing up in states such as Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois originated in the Black Hills. If the Black Hills population is drastically reduced, it [...]
Why cougars in the Black Hills are not significantly reducing the deer herd
Posted in Hunting, Preservation, S. Dakota on Jul 18th, 2010
JohnLaundre reports on the true positive of having predators in the system
In a blatant attempt to use fear, South Dakota “sportsmen” are trying to influence cougar management by raising the specter of a bloodthirsty predator killing all THEIR deer and elk. In South Dakota is where cougars are making a valiant attempt to re-establish themselves [...]
More on proposed increase in South Dakota cougar hunting quota
Posted in Control, Government Agency, Hunting, S. Dakota on Jul 7th, 2010
Here is the link to the South Dakota Five-Year Plan – http://gfp.sd.gov/wildlife/docs/SDmountainLionmanageplan2010-2015.pdf
http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/event/article/id/44492/
GF&P releases five-year mountain lion management plan
In 2005, the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department instituted the state’s first-ever open mountain lion season. Since then, 112 mountain lions have been taken in five seasons by hunters specifically pursuing the carnivorous mammal, which is [...]
South Dakota GF&P to slash cougar population–deadline for comments is July 26
Posted in Control, Government Agency, Hunting, S. Dakota on Jul 7th, 2010
http://www.bhpioneer.com/articles/2010/07/05/breaking_news/doc4c320050a3c86556472049.txt
GF&P to slash lion population
By Mark Watson
Black Hills Pioneer
BLACK HILLS – State wildlife managers want to lower the mountain lion population in the Black Hills by 80 animals.
According to the South Dakota Game, Fish and Park’s recently released lion management plan, by 2015 managers want to see the population in the Black Hills lowered to 170 [...]
Men accused of illegally killing cougar in Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota
Posted in Hunting, Preservation, S. Dakota on Jul 3rd, 2010
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Rapid City Journal
Local men accused of illegally harvesting mountain lion
Andrea J. Cook Journal staff
Two local men are accused of illegally killing a mountain lion near Mount Rushmore National Memorial in January.
Tyler Krebs, 21, of Rapid City and Shannon Homan, 39, of Box Elder have pleaded not guilty in federal court to violating the Lacey Act [...]
South Dakota Game Fish & Parks Dept seeks public input on draft cougar management plan for 2010-2015
Posted in Control, Monitoring, S. Dakota on Jul 2nd, 2010
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20100701/UPDATES/100701012/-1/DATABASE0201
ArgusLeader.com
Public input sought on state’s mountain lion management plan
Staff report
The state Game, Fish and Parks Department is offering citizens an opportunity to review a draft of a new five-year management plan for mountain lions.
The South Dakota Mountain Lion Management Plan 2010-2015 describes how state authorities propose to manage mountain lions in South Dakota. The draft [...]