Deadline for written comments to the SDGFP Commission June meeting

The written comment deadline for SDGFP Commission meetings is 72 hours before the day of the meeting, which normally are on Thursdays,

Sunday, June 1st just before midnight CT is the June Written comment deadline.

You go to SDGFP web site, under Commission drop down menu https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/ to the submit public comment portal https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/and submit comments there.

We are asking folks to comment on the  Northern River Otter Action Plan and ask it to plan to reintroduce river otters to western SD and to improve riparian and aquatic habitat along the major tributaries leading from the Missouri River to western SD.  We have river otter in eastern SD, but if river otter exist in western SD, they are anecdotal reports on occassional isolated individuals,  not known to be breeding.  We salo need for the corridors along the rivers to be more hospitable to otter by improving the riparian habitat along their edges or creating beaver habitat in side tributaries.   The proposed plan does not provide for these objectives. Please ask for them to be added. Please ask for the Eastern SD population to be managed to be robust enough to send migrating individuals to western SD or support capture of some otters to translocate to western SD.