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Josh Haiar: How’s the South Dakota pheasant hunt? And EHD spreads in Dakotas

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Every fall, hunters want to know what kind of pheasant season to expect in South Dakota.
Answering that as a reporter has become increasingly silly. As with every year since the state ended its traditional scientific roadside pheasant counts in 2019, wildlife officials say pheasant numbers are incredible. The state ended the count, at least in part, because of concern that news outlets reporting low bird numbers would hurt tourism.

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Outlook optimistic as South Dakota’s Oct. 17 pheasant opener approaches

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The last month of outdoor affairs in South Dakota included a habitat license-plate program that is generating less money than anticipated, a rejected proposal to allow anglers to harvest large muskies, and an optimistic outlook for the 2026 pheasant season. That’s despite the state’s decision to discontinue its scientific brood count.

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Josh Haiar: Wrapping up a busy month on South Dakota’s outdoors scene

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August was a busy month for South Dakota: One of the state’s U.S. senators introduced a bill aiming to incentivize more grasslands that could be grazed year-round; some residents, as in all states, are reacting to the rollback of federal endangered species protections; and an outbreak of hemorrhagic disease has been reported by state officials.

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South Dakota teenager Madison Grimm rescues waterfowl one egg at a time

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Madison Grimm said her first word was “duck.”
At least, that is what her parents tell her. Grimm told Outdoor News that she said it while looking at one of her father’s wildlife paintings hanging on the wall. Now 19, the northeastern South Dakota wildlife artist has transformed her lifelong fascination into Second Chance Flight. It is a nonprofit that rescues waterfowl eggs from nests accidentally destroyed during haying and other agricultural work.

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Nine South Dakota counties lose special youth doe seasons

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Beginning hunters will lose access to special antlerless-deer seasons in nine southeastern South Dakota counties this fall as state wildlife officials try to rebuild depleted white-tailed deer populations.
The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) Commission unanimously approved the one-year closure during its June meeting. This comes after the commission, in May, reduced firearm deer licenses by 1,400 statewide and changed offered archery and muzzleloader licenses from “any deer” to “any buck.”

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South Dakota aims for more Black Hills elk while instituting liberal, open season ‘East River’

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South Dakota wildlife officials are raising the state’s elk population goal in the Black Hills, while taking the opposite approach east of the Missouri River.
The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission moved on Thursday, May 7 to revise its initial draft elk management plan, increasing the Black Hills elk population objective from 6,000 to 8,000 elk to 6,000 to 9,000 elk.

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North Dakota’s harvest season for paddlefish closes, snag-and-release open through May 15

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In North Dakota, the Game and Fish Department announced last week that the state’s 2026 paddlefish snagging season would close last Friday, May 8 at 7 p.m. to any additional harvest to provide long-term protection of the paddlefish population.

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Josh Haiar: South Dakota officials say ‘no’ to lowering walleye limits

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South Dakota wildlife officials denied a public petition to reduce early-season walleye limits on a stretch of the Missouri River, citing fisheries data indicating a healthy population.
Wes Chmela of Oacoma asked officials to shut down or lower the daily walleye limit from four fish to two fish during January, February, and March on upper Lake Francis Case. In his written petition, he also proposed either catch-and-release-only fishing or tighter size restrictions for that period on the stretch from the Platte-Winner bridge to Fort Thompson.

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