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Post by sd51555 on May 2, 2019 17:38:29 GMT -6
www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/05/south-dakota-begins-predator-bounty-program-despite-opposition-questions-pheasant-hunting/3366306002/**The state will pay $10 per tail for raccoon, striped skunk, opossum, badger and red fox. The program is open from April 1 to Aug. 31 or until the cap of $500,000 is reached, whichever occurs first. The program is open to only South Dakota residents and each household can receive a maximum of $590 for the tails.
**The program is part of Gov. Kristi Noem's "Second Century Initiative" to boost pheasant and duck hunting in the state. GFP Secretary Kelly Hepler told the Commission that the program's success will be determined by the "heartwarming stories" of families getting outside to trap rather than focusing on a specific number of tails as a metric of success.
**(The liberals got ass hammered on this one and didn't like it. That's what happens when the wrong political party controls the land.) Julie Anderson of Rapid City questioned whether her opinion or the public hearing mattered when the state had already begun the program. "Public land is not yours or the governor's to do with as you please, but yet again, you do," Anderson said during Thursday's public hearing.
**In addition to the $500,000 for the predator bounty program, the GFP Department also gave away 16,500 live traps at a cost of about $900,000 on March 1 and is offering 13 trapping education classes across the state that began Wednesday as a way to increase trapping while reducing nest predators in the state. This is in addition to the $1 million in funding that the Legislature narrowly approved to boost pheasant habitat as part of the Second Century Initiative.
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Post by sd51555 on May 2, 2019 17:55:18 GMT -6
gfp.sd.gov/second-century-initiative/Habitat Approaches
**Expand existing saline soil program.
Build upon the existing saline and sodic soil program currently implemented by Pheasants Forever and SD Corn to further market the program and enroll additional landowners. Five-year agreements include a one-time incentive payment per acre basis and free seed to plant the conservation cover. The program allows flexible management alternatives by allowing grazing and haying after the primary nesting season until March 1. Moving forward, the state will work with these conservation partners to expand program availability across a broader geographic area within the state. Under this approach, each additional $1 million could enroll approximately 5,000 acres of marginal saline and sodic soils and provide habitat for upland nesting birds and other wildlife. That works out to $40/acre/year.
**Provide incentive for landowners enrolling in SHIPP.
Under the new Farm Bill, the Soil Health and Income Protection Program (SHIPP) will be a 50,000 acre pilot program to be enrolled by the end of 2020, available in Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) states. It is uncertain how those acres will be enrolled or distributed across the ?ve states within the PPR.
GFP cost-share incentive will be made available for those lands enrolled in a 5-year agreement to help cover the cost of seed to be planted to a conservation cover.
The cost-share incentive excludes haying and mowing in 2 of the 5 years.
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