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Deadline for Written Comments for the SDGFP Commission’s Oct. Meeting
September 29 @ 10:30 pm - 10:59 pm
Deadline for Written Comments for the SDGFP Commission’s Oct. Meeting is just before midnight CT on Sunday Oct 29th
We are asking folks to comment in opposition to the draft Mt. Lion Action Plan. They amended the draft plan in Sept to make it worse. Their change will allow annual killing of more lions. They continued commenting on it for another month.
For info on Mt Lion issues go to our web page on Mt Lion Alerts: https://phas-wsd.org/cougar-alert/
or the Sept 5th-6th Commission meeting notice: https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-game-fish-and-parks-commission-hybrid-meeting/
You can also comment on the proposed rule about fees for hunting various species. To see proposed rule and learn about costs of hunting licenses in SD. Cougar licenses are to go from $22 to $24. That is not enough. – https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/fees-from-gfp.Book_.CommSept.5_9_24-2-1.pdf
You can also comment on the biennial report on threatened and endangered species. – https://phas-wsd.org/wp-content/uploads/TE-status-reviews_2024.pdf
PHAS will have a discussion meeting on the mountain lion drat Action Plan on Sept 25th by Zoom at 6:30 pm. with Nancy Hilding and Joshua Rosenau of the Mt. Lion Foundation as speakers It is announced on our Facebook Page at – https://www.facebook.com/share/4HUtZLpMFijdvaBz/ and announced on our events/deadline calendar at https://phas-wsd.org/event/phas-meeting-topic-sd-mountain-lions-and-gfp-management-plans-by-zoom/ You can find Zoom codes at these links. The meeting will be recorded and video link provided at our recorded meetings web page.
Written comments can be submitted at https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/. To be included in the public record of the most immediate meeting, comments must include your complete name and city of residence and meet the submission deadline of seventy–two hours before the meeting (not including the day of the meeting) (Usually Sunday night before midnight CT or MT depending on time zone of physical meeting) If you miss that deadline it goes to the public record of the next meeting .
The three new commissioners e-mails likely are:
Jim.White@state.sd.us, , Bruce.Cull@state.sd.us, Travis.Theel@state.sd.us,
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For details on the Oct 3rd-4th meeting:
https://phas-wsd.org/event/october-game-fish-and-parks-commission-hybrid-meeting-in-huron/
You can also testify in person or remotely by Zoom at 2 pm CT . You get 3 minutes at the open forum and at each finalization hearing.