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George Vandel, a former wildlife director for Game, Fish and Parks, said the brood count was a more accurate way of estimating the pheasant population. "It wasn’t barbershop biology,” Vandel said.
State wildlife officials are not bringing back a popular method of estimating South Dakota’s pheasant population, despite requests from the public to do so. South Dakota is one of the top states for pheasant hunting in the nation, with millions of birds and millions of dollars in economic impact from the hunters that flock to […] The post Commission dismisses calls to reinstate annual pheasant count appeared first on South Dakota Searchlight.
In response to hundreds of opposition comments, the Game, Fish and Parks Commission curtailed a proposal to expand waterfowl licenses for hunters from other states.
The amended proposal increases the number of nonresident waterfowl licenses by 105, rather than the previously proposed 315.
South Dakota’s multi-year drought and wetland drainage practices are resulting in fewer and smaller wetlands. That can result in less opportunity during this year’s duck hunting season.