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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:20250309T090000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20251102T080000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240711T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240712T120000 DTSTAMP:20260417T062838 CREATED:20231213T070734Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240712T170143Z UID:9874-1720699200-1720785600@phas-wsd.org SUMMARY:SD Game\, Fish and Parks July Hybrid Commission Meeting DESCRIPTION:SD Game\, Fish & Parks Commission’s July Meeting is in Sioux Falls\, Thursday-Friday\,  July 11-12th\,  2024\, at  Good Earth State Park\, \nResults – Mt Lions: \nThe  GFP staff presented the Draft Mt. Lion Action Plan and a powerpoint about their mt. lion public opinion survey. The draft Action Plan did not change the population objective of 200-300. It did not recommend hound hunting in the Black Hills Fire Protection District (BHFPD) outside of Custer State Park. \nWe believe that the draft Action Plan is available for public comment and will be writing talking points on that in the future.  We wish a reduction in hound hunting of lions and a reduction in the year round unlimited harvest in the Prairie Unit (Statewide outside of BHFPD)\, with a recognition of need for sustainable populations on Oglala and Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s reservations.  Due to various Allotment Acts Tribal lands can contain checker board land ownership patterns\, with SDGFP having jurisdiction over parts of the checker board. \nResults-  Turkey \nThe Commission rejected a petition to lower the non-resident turkey hunting licenses\, but instead redid the spring turkey season proposal to reduce the non-resident turkey hunting licenses\, but with a more modest reduction in number of licenses. \n=============== \nFolks can testify for 3 minutes at 2 pm CT in person or by Zoom or phone. Visit this web page closer to the meeting date\, for more details: https://gfp.sd.gov/commission/information/\n\nAgenda https://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/nav/Commission_Agenda_-_July_2024_Public_Copy.pdf \n\n\n\n\nCommission Book –  written material discussed at the meet is in the Commission book\nhttps://gfp.sd.gov/UserDocs/nav/July_2024_Commission_Book.pdf\n\n\n\n\n\nThere are proposals for changes to bobcat hunting season\, spring and fall turkey  hunting\, antelope hunting\, air gun use\, and park entrance licenses. The proposals can be found in the July Commission Book.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe had anticipated that the SDGFP staff would bring forward a new draft Mountain Lion Action Plan for an approximate 60 day comment period\, with comments due in early Sept  (see our Sept Commission meeting event notices for Sept. 1st & Sept 5th-6th). There is a draft Mt Lion Action Plan in the Commission book and on the agenda as an information item. \nWe also anticipated that the GFP staff would be submitting a proposal for new cougar hunting season rules that would apply to the Black Hills Fire Protection District (outside Custer state Park) & would allow some small amount of hound hunting of cougars in the BHFPD – with comments due in early Sept.  They did not do so and did not propose that change in the  draft Action Plan. We don’t know what that means\, if they have dropped the idea\, will take direction from the Commission or are planning to bring it up in September. If you look at the public comments\, advocates for hound  hunting were organized to submit pro-hound hunting comments. \nWe urge people to object hound hunting of wildlife (not just cougars – bobcats are also hunting with hounds) & you can testify/comment against it at any of many Commission meetings\, but especially July 11th & September 5th. \nYou can object due to 1. animal cruelty to both  dogs and lions\, 2. not fair chase\, 3. provides huge advantage of success for hound hunters vs “boot” hunters – there are many more “boot” hunters than hound hunters  4. creates trespass risk\, 5. disturbs non-target wildlife\, livestock and other human users\, 6. contributes to commercialization of wildlife\, as folks can hire hound hunter guides to significantly increase hunting success. \n\n\n\nSD GFP normally meets on the first Thursday-Friday of the month\, unless those days are close to a holiday and then the meeting week may shift. They normally don’t meet in February and August. \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.\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. If there is rule finalization(s) you get 3 minutes per each rule you want to testify on. During the Open Forum\, you get 3 minutes to testify on anything. \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-july-commission-meeting/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR