Game, Fish and Parks achieves 1.6M acres of public access, sets 2M acre goal
The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department has surpassed its goal of creating public access to 1.6 million acres……
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South Dakota ranks fourth in 2024 grassland conservation enrollments
South Dakota landowners enrolled almost 159,000 acres this year — nearly 250 square miles — into a federal conservation program…
Pickerel Lake Conservancy buys 80 acres to protect water quality
The Pickerel Lake Conservancy has purchased 80 acres of land in the Chekapa Creek Watershed to protect the quality of…
State lacks data to prove trapping program increases the pheasant population, official says
A state official said this week there is no data to show that a predator trapping program has increased the…
South Dakota ranks 4th in payments from conservation program
South Dakotans are the fourth-largest recipients this year from a federal program that pays agricultural landowners to keep environmentally sensitive…
With CRP acres dwindling nationally, Congress seeks reforms
HENRY — For nearly 20 years, Carolyn Eck and her husband rented out their pastureland for cattle grazing northwest of……
