BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Prairie Hills Audubon Society - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Prairie Hills Audubon Society X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://phas-wsd.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Prairie Hills Audubon Society REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20220313T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20221106T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20230312T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20231105T080000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20240310T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20241103T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20231005T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20231006T120000 DTSTAMP:20260417T065526 CREATED:20230424T211912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T185702Z UID:6922-1696510800-1696593600@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:SD Game\, Fish and Parks Commission October 2023 Meeting DESCRIPTION:SD Game\, Fish and Parks Commission October Meeting was in Deadwood and occurred on Thursday 5th and Friday the 6th of October 2023. It will be hybrid and Zoom links will be available.  More details will be posted later\, but as it gets close to the meeting – for details watch: https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/information/ \nWritten comments are due before midnight on the Sunday night before the meeting. \nYou can testify in person or by Zoom\, at 2 pm MT. \nGo to past event calendar alerts on Commission meetings for more notes on general  Commission meeting procedure. \nThe finalization for Mountain Lion season (public hearing and Commission vote on proposal) that was planned for October\, did not occur in October. The Commission killed the rule proposal from public petition at September meeting. \nVisit PHAS  Mountain Lion alert or our alert in events calendar for the July & September Commission meeting for details. \nWe still ask people write or testify in opposition to hound hunting of  cougars and raccoons\, as the Commission seems to want to allow hounding hunting in the Black Hills Fire Protection District by a different & future action.  There was a petition for rule making presented and considered on allowing hound hunting of raccoons for out-of-state hunters.  This petition was denied – it seemed that the vocal Commissioners wanted a rule to allow out-of-state hound hunters\, but were not happy with how the petitioner designed the rule to permit this. \nYear-round hunting of raccoons by hounds\, boot hunt or traps is currently allowed in SD by residents.  Non-residents can only kill for a few months in the winter (Dec-March) when fur pelts thick\, and can’t use  hounds. SDCL https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/41-6-23   Administrative rules – https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules/Administrative/41:08:01:08.02 \nSDGFP’s raccoon web page at SDGFP https://gfp.sd.gov/raccoon/    \nSDCL on hounds can’t be used for big game\, except Mt Lions as allowed by the Commission:\, SDCL 41-8-15\, https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/41-8-15 \nMountain lion hunting restrictions https://sdlegislature.gov/Rules/Administrative/41:06:61:06 \nSee our alert on NPBP.  Nest predator bounty program (NPBP) applies to raccoons\, which are species most frequently killed by NPBP bounty hunters. https://phas-wsd.org/sd-nest-predator-bounty-program/ \nREPORT ON ACTIONS \nThe Commission modified the licenses offered through the Hunt for Habitat raffle package (Custer State Park Bison\, Any Deer and Any Deer/Elk). The any antelope licenses were removed from the previous three license packages\, and two any deer licenses were added to provide an opportunity for two additional license options\, with a total of nine licenses issued.. \nThe Commission tabled action on this topic of getting rid of one day fishing license until the November meeting to allow for additional public comment opportunity. \nThe Commission killed  petition for rule making to allow  out-of-state hound hunters of raccoons\, but this was not opposition to the general concept\, but objection to how the proposed rule was written. \nYou can go to the archives to listen to audio of past Commission meetings – https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/archives/ \nIf you have a Macintosh\, you may need to download free audio files translation software for Macs\, to open PC audio files. \nAgenda of Oct 5th-6th \nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/nav/October_2023_Commission_Agenda_[Public_Copy].pdf \nHound hunting of raccoons by non-residents petition: \nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/nav/Petition_203_-_Nonresident_Raccoon_Hunting_with_Hounds.pdf \nFinalization – Free admittance at Parks some days\, Hunt for Habitat rules \nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/nav/FINAL_Mothers_Fathers_Day_PEL_Exemption_Repeal.pdf \nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/nav/FIN_2023_Hunt_for_Habitat.pdf \nTo find public comment web page \nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/ \nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/commission/information/ \nWritten comments can be submitted at https://gfp.sd.gov/forms/positions/. To be included in the public record of the next 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 record of the next meeting.  Go to our November Calendar for alerts on November Commission meeting – https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-game-fish-and-parks-commission-november-2023-meeting/ \nYou can testify at GFP meetings which are held in person and by Zoom\, generally at 2 pm on the Thursday of the meeting\, in time zone of the meeting. \nUnless you want to communicate directly with each Commissioner  (those comments will not be in the public record)–  https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/members/  (no deadline). You can see phones and home address at this link.  Here are likely e-mails for them.\n“Stephanie.Rissler@state.sd.us” \, “Jon.Locken@state.sd.us” \,  “Travis.Bies@state.sd.us” \, “Robert.Whitmyre@state.sd.us” \, “Julie.Bartling@state.sd.us” or Julia.Bartling@state.sd.us\, “charles.spring@state.sd.us”  \,\nThe two new commissioners  e-mails likely are:\nJim.White@state.sd.us or James.White@state.sd.us\, Bruce.Cull@state.sd.us URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/sd-game-fish-and-parks-commission-october-meeting/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20231006T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20231006T235900 DTSTAMP:20260417T065526 CREATED:20231003T164109Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T165435Z UID:9018-1696635000-1696636740@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:Spruce comment deadline is extended DESCRIPTION:Comment deadline on Spruce project  was extended until Friday\, October 06\, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. MT. This is because the webpage for the project (including the commenting portal) was not working  for part of Friday\, all of Saturday and Sunday and part of Monday\, when comments were due on Monday the 25th. This was a  nation wide issue for Forest Service  for some of their web pagess.\n\nToni Strauss\, Deputy Forest Supervisor of the Black Hills National Forest and the Responsible Official for the Spruce Vegetation Management Project (Spruce Project)\, has decided to offer a four-day\, additional period to comment on the draft environmental assessment (EA) for the project due to a temporary outage of the Forest Service’s project website.\n  \nThe Black Hills National Forest is proposing management activities on approximately 3\,614 acres in mixed conifer stands. Proposed treatments include approximately 493 acres of overstory removal with reserves\, 831 acres of shelterwood\, 888 acres of commercial thinning\, 720 acres of group selection\, and 682 acres of precommercial thinning restoration. Associated road activities being proposed include approximately 41 miles of temporary road construction/closure\, 22 miles of road reconstruction\, and a couple hundred miles of road maintenance \nThe Spruce Project draft EA and supporting documents are available on the project webpage: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/blackhills/?project=61599. \nYou can read comments already submitted here both during scoping and on the draft EA (the project was larger at scoping).: https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//ReadingRoom?Project=61599 \nPHAS  has submitted comments as has the Norbeck Society. \nThe following options are available for submitting comments: \n\nEmail comments to: matthew.daily@usda.gov\nHardcopy comments can be mailed\, or hand delivered (Tuesday through Friday\, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. mountain time\, excluding holidays):\n\nToni Strauss\, Deputy Forest Supervisor \nBlack Hills National Forest \nAttn: Matthew Daily (Spruce Project) \n1019 N. 5th Street \nCuster\, SD 57730 \n(605) 673-9200 \n\nFax comments to (605) 673-9350. Cover page needs to include “Comments for Spruce Project\, Attn: Matthew Daily.”\n\nThank you for taking time to review the proposed Spruce Project and submitting comments. Additional information can be obtained from: Matthew Daily\, Natural Resources Staff Officer\, (605) 673-9313\, matthew.daily@usda.gov. URL:https://phas-wsd.org/event/spruce-comment-deadline-is-extended/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR