Hunting and trapping HANDBOOK 2018 Taking a look back! The first South Dakota pheasant hunting season was a one-day hunt held in Spink County on October 3O, 1919.

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SOUTH DAKOTA GAME, FISH & PARKS HUNTING HANDBOOK CONSERVATION OFFICER DISTRICTS

GENERAL INFORMATION: 605.223.7660 TTY: 605.223.7684, email: [email protected] Aberdeen: 605.626.2391, 5850 E. Hwy 12 Pierre: 605.773.3387, 523 E. Capitol Ave. Chamberlain: 605.734.4530, 1550 E. King Ave. Rapid City: 605.394.2391, 4130 Adventure Trail Ft. Pierre: 605.223.7700, 20641 SD Hwy 1806 Sioux Falls: 605.362.2700, 4500 S. Oxbow Ave. Huron: 605.353.7145, 895 3rd Street SW Watertown: 605.882.5200, 400 West Kemp Mobridge: 605.845.7814, 909 Lake Front Drive Webster: 605.345.3381, 603 E. 8th Ave.

CONSERVATION OFFICERS *denotes District Conservation Officer Supervisor Martin Tom Beck 605.381.6433 Britton Casey Dowler 605.881.3775 Hill City Jeff Edwards 605.381.9995 Webster Austin Norton 605.881.2177 Hot Springs D.J. Schroeder 605.381.6438 Sisseton Dean Shultz 605.881.3773 Custer Ron Tietsort 605.431.7048 Webster Michael Undlin 605.237.3275 Spearfish Brian Meiers* 605.391.6023 Aberdeen Tim McCurdy* 605.380.4572

Rapid City Chris Dekker 605.390.0923 Clear Lake Adam Behnke 605.881.3780 Rapid City Jacob Hasz 605.415.6462 Watertown Kyle Lenzner 605.881.3777 Rapid City Adam Geigle* 605.390.1230 Estelline Dan Sternhagen 605.881.0018 Milbank Blake Swanson 605.881.3779 Belle Fourche Bill Eastman 605.391.1575 Clark Zach Thomsen 605.881.2260 Faith Ross Fees 605.381.3734 Milbank Jamie Pekelder* 605.881.3778 Lemmon Keith Mutschler 605.391.7364 Sturgis Ryan Pearson 605.391.0836 Plankinton Lynn Geuke 605.220.6943 Spearfish Josh Thompson 605.381.4704 Huron Trevor Johnson 605.941.4552 Spearfish Mike Apland* 605.391.1574 Howard Evan Meyer 605.553.4299 Mitchell Andy Petersen 605.770.0340 Ft. Pierre Tyler Krekelberg 605.730.3774 Salem Matt Talbert 605.360.0491 Mobridge Trevor Laine 605.845.6286 Sioux Falls Jeremy Roe* 605.940.3519 Ft. Pierre Josh Carr* 605.730.1574 Brookings Jeff Grendler 605.360.0509 Miller Jon Dunlap 605.730.1570 Humboldt Jared Hill 605.941.0181 Chamberlain Diana Landegent 605.730.1578 Sioux Falls Chris Kuntz 605.350.1669 Platte Jeff Martin 605.730.1575 Madison Cody Symens 605.480.3364 Ft. Pierre John Murphy 605.730.1571 Lake Preston Shane VanBockern 605.360.0514 Miller Cory Flor* 605.680.0003 Flandreau Chad Williams 605.530.7085 Sioux Falls Jeremy Rakowicz* 605.941.0074 Presho Spencer Downey 605.730.0774 Chamberlain Travis March 605.730.1573 Yankton Dan Altman 605.941.4549 Tyndall Todd Crownover 605.360.0497 Aberdeen Jenna Capper 605.626.3200 Olivet Brian Humphrey 605.941.4735 Aberdeen Nick Cochran 605.881.7594 Elk Point Tony Stokely 605.356.9491 Redfield Shane Pedersen 605.472.5015 Canton Josh VandenBosch 605.940.0222 Ipswich Eric Voigt 605.380.4376 Yankton Sam Schelhaas* 605.941.4540 Ipswich Joe Galbraith* 605.380.4563

SOUTH DAKOTA REGIONAL CONSERVATION OFFICER SUPERVISORS: Western – Jim McCormick, Rapid City (605.381.9500) Southeast – Marty Pennock, Sioux Falls (605.201.3001) Central – Steve Rossow, Chamberlain (605.730.1383) Northeast – Kraig Haase, Watertown (605.881.3774)

4 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 CONTENTS GENERAL LICENSE INFORMATION BIG GAME License Requirements...... 7 Big Game Seasons...... 33 General License Information...... 8 Big Game Regulations...... 34 Resident License Information...... 10 LAWS AND REGULATIONS Nonresident License Information...... 14 Hunting Public Road Rights-of-Way...... 38 SMALL GAME General Laws...... 39 Ring-Necked Pheasant...... 16 Non-toxic Shot Table...... 48 Youth Ring-Necked Pheasant...... 16 OTHER RESOURCES Resident-Only Ring-Necked Pheasant...... 16 S.D. Sportsmen Against Hunger...... 50 Prairie Chicken and Sharp-Tailed Grouse...... 17 Chronic Wasting Disease...... 50 Gray Partridge and Chukar...... 17 Plague in Wildlife...... 50 Quail...... 17 Public Hunting Areas...... 51 WATERFOWL State Game Refuges...... 52 Duck...... 18 Maps for Hunters...... 53 Canada Goose...... 19 DUCK IDENTIFICATION...... 54 Youth Waterfowl...... 20 White-Fronted Goose...... 20 MENTORED AND YOUTH HUNTING..... 60

Light Goose...... 20 SUNRISE/SUNSET SCHEDULE...... 69 Federal Laws for Migratory Game Birds...... 22 Transporting, Shipping and Storage ...... 26 SEASON DATES TABLE...... 70 OTHER SEASONS Other Seasons...... 28 Furbearer Seasons...... 29 Furbearer Regulations...... 30

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Dennis Daugaard, Governor Kelly Hepler, GFP Secretary Katie Ceroll, Parks Division Director Tony Leif, Wildlife Division Director

GAME, FISH AND PARKS COMMISSIONERS Barry Jensen, Chair, White River Russell Olson, Wentworth Gary Jensen Vice Chair, Rapid City Cathy Peterson, Salem Mary Anne Boyd, Yankton Scott Phillips, New Underwood Jon Locken, Bath Doug Sharp, Watertown

The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks’ mission is to provide sustainable outdoor recreational opportunities through responsible management of our state’s parks, fisheries and wildlife by fostering partnerships, cultivating stewardship and safely connecting people with the outdoors.

180,000 copies of this document were printed by Midstates Printing at a rate of 15 cents per copy. Printed on 30 percent PCW recycled paper. South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks receives Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1975, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior and its bureaus prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex (in educational programs). If you believe that you have been discriminated against in any program, activity or facility, or if you desire further information please write to: The U.S. Fish and Wild- life Service, Office for Diversity and Civil Rights Programs-External Programs, 4040 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 130, Southeast – Marty Pennock, Sioux Falls (605.201.3001) Arlington, VA 22203. Northeast – Kraig Haase, Watertown (605.881.3774) COVER PHOTO: © Sam Stukel gfp.sd.gov 5 WHAT’S NEW FOR 2018 GOOSE (pg. 19) • Changed the daily bag limit from 15 to 8 for the early fall Canada goose season. • Added Lawrence County to Unit 2.

DUCK (pg. 18) • Increased the pintail daily bag limit from 1 to 2. • Changed the start date of the Low Plains South zone from beginning on the second Saturday of October to the fourth Saturday of October.

DEER (pg. 33) • All deer seasons will conclude on January 1, excluding the Black Hills, Custer State Park and Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge. • Changed the start date of archery deer season from the fourth Saturday in September to September 1. • Changed the antlerless only deer season for both West and East River deer seasons to nine consecutive days beginning the Saturday following the 16th day of the East River deer season. • Require all resident and nonresident deer hunters possessing an archery deer license to obtain and possess a free access permit to hunt in the Black Hills. • Created a regulation for mandatory submission of required samples for chronic wasting disease testing for all deer harvested from any Custer State Park deer hunting season. (pg. 50)

APPRENTICE DEER LICENSE (pg. 47 & 60) • Changed the name of the youth deer season to the apprentice hunter deer season. Any resident who has not held a license to hunt deer during the previous 10 years is eligible for this license.

TRAPPING (pg. 31) • Created a regulation that prohibits the use of snares that use springs or other powering devices that hold a snare closed on all Game Production Areas and Waterfowl Production Areas above water.

OTHER • Modified regulations for possession of firearm and accompaniment while archery hunting. (pg. 34) • Removed and modified several regulations related to archery equipment restrictions. (pg. 34) • Removed, modified and created several refuges and boating restrictions. (pg. 39) • The Legislature modified provisions to hunting predators and varmints with night-vision equipment. (pg. 39) • Removed the minimum age for youth mentor program. (pg. 60-65) • Youth age 10 and older are now able to purchase preference points for all hunting seasons. • Implemented a cubed preference point system for all limited draw licenses. • Implemented regulations for the marking of closed nonmeandered bodies of water. • Removed the limit for maximum hunting party size. • Made an allowance for muzzleloading handguns with use of a .50 caliber or larger for big game hunting. • Removed the requirement for bowhunter education certification for all ages and hunting seasons.

6 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 LICENSE REQUIREMENTS Game Species Resident Nonresident Ring-Necked Pheasant, Grouse, One of the following: One of the following: Gray Partridge, Chukar, Quail, - Small Game License - Nonresident Small Game License Cottontail Rabbit, Tree Squirrel, - 1-Day Small Game License - Nonresident Youth Small Game Mourning Dove u, - Any combination License License u u - Youth Small Game License Snipe , Sandhill Crane Mourning Dove, Snipe and Sandhill Mourning Dove, Snipe and Sandhill Crane also require State Migratory Crane also require State Migratory Bird Certification Bird Certification *NOTE: State Migratory Bird Certification alone does not entitle nonresidents to hunt migratory waterfowl. Waterfowl (includes Ducks, One of the following: - State Nonresident Waterfowl Geese u, Coot u, - Small Game License License (fall licenses by application Tundra Swan v, - 1-Day Small Game License only) Sandhill Crane u) - Any Combination License - State Migratory Bird Certification - Youth Small Game License (included in license purchase) PLUS PLUS - State Migratory Bird Certification - Federal Waterfowl Stamp - Federal Waterfowl Stamp (ages 16 and older) (ages 16 and older) Coyote w, Red and Grey Fox, Hunting - One of the following: Hunting - One of the following: Skunk - Predator/Varmint License - Nonresident Predator/Varmint - Furbearer License License - Any resident hunting license - Any Nonresident Hunting License - No license required for other than Nonresident Shooting youth under age 16 Preserve Trapping Hunting or Trapping - Furbearer License - Nonresident Furbearer License - No license required for youth under age 16 Raccoon, Badger Same as above Hunting or Trapping - Nonresident Furbearer License Bobcat, Opossum, Mink, Weasel, Hunting or Trapping Hunting or Trapping Beaver, Muskrat - Furbearer License - Nonresident Furbearer License (see Furbearer Regulation - No license required for section for muskrat shooting) youth under age 16 Prairie Dog, Gopher, Crow, One of the following: One of the following: Jackrabbit, Ground Squirrel, - Predator/Varmint License - Nonresident Predator/ Porcupine, Marmot - Any Resident Hunting License Varmint License - Furbearer License - Any Nonresident Hunting - No license required for youth License other than Nonresident under age 16 Shooting Preserve - Nonresident Furbearer license Licensed Private Same licenses required to hunt that One of the following: Shooting Preserve species off a preserve - Shooting Preserve License; or - Same licenses needed to hunt that species off a preserve Big Game Resident Big Game License and Nonresident Big Game License (including Wild Turkey) Tag and Tag u Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not required for Spring Light Goose, Canada Goose August Management Take, Coot, Sandhill Crane, Mourning Dove or Snipe. v Only hunters who applied for and received a Tundra Swan License in the lottery are eligible to hunt. w In addition to a valid resident license, a free access permit is required for coyote hunting in Custer State Park.

gfp.sd.gov 7 2018 GENERAL LICENSE INFORMATION No license may be refunded or transferred after officer. A licensee who is 16 years of age or older being issued. who holds the license authorization, shall exhibit and provide for inspection a driver’s license, a Border Waters state-issued identification card or another form of On border waters with adjacent states, other valid identification for the purpose of verifying the than Nebraska, individuals with a valid South identity of the licensee. Dakota hunting or trapping license may only take Persons hunting, fishing, trapping or engaged wild animals on South Dakota’s side of the border. in any recreational activity on private land shall However, on the South Dakota-Nebraska border upon request exhibit their license to hunt, fish waters a hunter holding a resident South Dakota or or trap. If unlicensed or engaged in another a resident Nebraska license may enter and leave recreational activity, that person shall provide their the water from either state’s shore. Individuals first and last name, town/city and state/province of holding a nonresident license must enter and leave residence as shown on their driver’s license, state- the water from the shore of the state in which issued identification card or other form of valid they are licensed. Deeded islands in the Missouri identification to any person with legal authority River require the license of the state in which they to control access to the private land where the are deeded. South Dakota islands are: James hunting, fishing, trapping or other recreational River Island, Gunderson Island and Jones Island. activity is occurring. Nebraska islands are: Mayfield Island and Elk/ Hunters can use their smartphone to display a Rush Island. Sandbars and islands not deeded and copy of their license in lieu of a paper copy. not attached to either state and Lake Yankton are open to hunting by licensed hunters from either Delinquent Child Support state. South Dakota law prohibits the issuance of any The Springfield Bottoms are open only to South license or permit issued by GFP if an individual Dakota licensed hunters and the Bazile Creek Area owes $1,000 or more in past-due child support, is open only to Nebraska licensed hunters. unless the individual enters into a repayment Hunters licensed by either state may hunt agreement with the Department of Social Services anywhere in the flowing Missouri River as long as (DSS) for payment of the delinquent child support. water separates the hunter from the mainland of For more information, contact the Division of Child the other state. Support at 605.773.3641.

Buying Licenses Disabled Hunter Permits Resident and nonresident over-the-counter A Disabled Hunter Permit allows a qualified licenses may be purchased at many retail stores in hunter to lawfully shoot game animals from a South Dakota and at a few County Treasurer offices. stationary motor vehicle. This includes big game When purchasing licenses over the counter you must animals such as deer, antelope, elk and turkey have your state-issued ID with you. Licenses can as well as small game animals such as grouse, also be purchased online at gfp.sd.gov, or with the pheasants, partridge, rabbits and waterfowl. The GFP mobile app. Disabled Hunter Permit is free to qualified hunters, Big Game Licenses (including turkey licenses) valid for a four year period and may be renewed and Nonresident Fall Waterfowl Licenses are issued after the expiration date. A temporary permit can be by lottery and can also be completed through the issued for no more than 12 months for temporary online licensing application system. The tag/license ambulatory injuries. is then mailed to individuals who draw a permit. A NOTE: The disabled hunter permit is intended paper version of the application for mailing can be for use only in situations where an applicant’s obtained online as well as at GFP regional offices physical or medical condition makes it impossible and through local licensing agents. or causes severe pain or physical hardship on the applicant to walk while hunting. Carrying/Exhibiting Licenses Qualifying individuals must have at least one A licensee shall exhibit the licensee’s license of the following physical disabilities or medical or license authorization issued by the Department conditions: of Game, Fish and Parks upon request by a • Has lost one or both legs or who has temporarily conservation officer or other law enforcement or permanently lost the use of one or both legs;

8 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 GENERAL LICENSE INFORMATION 2018 GENERAL LICENSE INFORMATION • Requires a wheelchair for mobility; Revoked Licenses • Is physically unable to walk without the If a person is convicted of certain wildlife assistance of another person, prosthetic aid, violations, the person’s hunting or trapping brace, crutch or other device that is intended to privilege shall be automatically revoked for one support or assist the person while walking; or more years and that person is prohibited from • Is on portable oxygen; buying or applying for another license during that • Is unable to walk a distance of more than 300 time. feet without assistance or rest due to arthritic, Some violations are: knowingly trespassing, neurological or orthopedic condition; violating the artificial light law, substantially • Has been diagnosed with a neuromuscular exceeding daily or possession limits, illegally disorder (such as muscular dystrophy or multiple shooting big game from road rights-of-way, sclerosis); shooting certain animals from a motor vehicle, • Has been diagnosed with a Class III cardiac violating any rule pertaining to hunting or disease resulting in marked limitation of physical possessing game without a license or during a activity; closed season or violating a wildlife law punishable • Has been diagnosed with a Class IV cardiac as a Class 1 misdemeanor or felony. disease resulting in the inability to carry on any Any person whose hunting or trapping privileges physical activity without discomfort; are currently revoked or suspended in any other • Is restricted by lung disease to such a degree state or country may not purchase a license or that the person’s forced expiratory volume in exercise the same privilege in South Dakota during one second, when measured by a spirometer, is the period of revocation or suspension. less than one liter; or the arterial oxygen tension No person who has an unpaid and unsatisfied is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at rest. judgment issued for wildlife civil damages may In addition: hunt, fish or trap or purchase, attempt to purchase • Persons who have lost an arm or permanent or possess any South Dakota hunting, fishing or use of an arm or use a wheelchair for mobility, trapping license. may be eligible for a crossbow/draw-lock permit. • Persons classified as legally blind or Restrictions quadriplegic may be eligible for a Designated No one may at any time apply for, procure or Shooter Permit. possess a license or preference point under an Applications may be requested from: assumed name or in which an address other than GFP Disabled Hunter Permits; 20641 SD Hwy the person’s regular place of residence is given or 1806; Ft. Pierre SD 57532; gfp.sd.gov/disabled- make any false statement whatsoever in securing hunter; or any Wildlife Division office. a license or preference point, lend a license or tag to another or knowingly issue or aid in securing Licensing Agent Fee a license or preference point for any person not The maximum fee for hunting, fishing or trapping legally entitled to it. licenses sold by a license agent or online is $4 per item; except the maximum fee for issuing all Social Security Number Nonresident Small Game Licenses is $8. The All U.S. residents are required by federal and agent’s fee may not be charged for issuing the state law (SDCL 25-7A-56.2) to provide their Social State Migratory Bird Certification. Security Number when purchasing and applying for Lost Licenses a license; online or via paper application. The State Lost general hunting and fishing licenses may of South Dakota continues to maintain the highest be replaced by any local licensing agent. Agents level of online security standards through the may charge a standard agent fee ($4 or $8) for Payment Card Industry (PCI) to ensure customer replacing general hunting and fishing licenses. In safety when processing online transactions. addition, licenses may be reprinted at home by the licensee at any time. Tribal Information Big Game Licensees should contact State hunting licenses are valid on private, 605.223.7660 for information on replacing lost big deeded lands within the exterior boundaries of game tags. Big Game Licenses are replaced for reservations. $20 a license, plus a $4 agent’s fee for residents and a $8 agent’s fee for nonresidents. gfp.sd.gov 9 2018 RESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION State hunting licenses are not valid on tribal state licensing requirements, seasons and bag trust lands and tribal licenses are not valid on limits apply. private deeded lands within a reservation. Persons Ownership of the former U.S. Army Corps planning to hunt on tribal lands should contact the of Engineers lands on the Lower Brule Sioux appropriate tribal office: Cheyenne River (Eagle Reservation and Cheyenne River Sioux Butte), Crow Creek (Ft. Thompson), Flandreau Reservation has been transferred to the respective Santee (Flandreau), Lower Brule (Lower Brule), tribes. All tribal and federal laws apply down to the Pine Ridge (Kyle), Rosebud (Rosebud), Sisseton/ water’s edge. Please contact the appropriate tribal Wahpeton (Agency Village), Standing Rock (Ft. office for specific information. Yates, ND), Yankton (Marty). However, if hunting on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lands adjoining the Crow Creek or Standing Rock Reservations,

Resident Licenses and Fees 2018 licenses are valid Dec. 15, 2017 through Jan. 31, 2019 2019 licenses will be valid Dec. 15, 2018 through Jan. 31, 2020 Combination (small game and fishing)*...... $55 Senior Combination, ages 65 and up (small game and fishing)*...... $40 Junior Combination, ages 16-18 (small game and fishing)...... $27 Small Game*...... $33 One-day Small Game...... $12 Youth Small Game, ages 12-15...... $5 State Migratory Bird Certification...... $5 Predator/Varmint...... $5 Furbearer...... $30 * Fee includes a $6 surcharge mandated by state law. Revenue derived from this surcharge is dedicated to hunting access, wildlife damage management and animal damage control programs.

Residency this state who is absent due to business of the To be eligible for a resident license, a person United States or of this state or is serving in must meet all of the following criteria: the armed forces of the United States or the • Have a domicile within this state for at least spouse of an active duty military person; 90 consecutive days immediately preceding • Any person who previously had a domicile in the date of application for purchasing or this state who is absent due to the person’s attempting to purchase any hunting, fishing or regular attendance at a post high school trapping license/permit. A domicile is a person’s institution as a full time student or in a medical established, fixed and permanent home to or dental residency program; which the person, whenever absent, has the • Any person in the active military of the United present intention of returning; States, or that person’s spouse, who is • Make no claim of residency in any other state or continuously stationed in this state; foreign country for any purpose; • Any person who is a patient in any war • Claim no resident hunting, fishing or trapping veterans’ hospital within this state; privileges in any other state or foreign country; • Any person who is an employee of the • Prior to any application for any license transfer veterans’ administration or any veterans’ to this state the person’s driver’s license and hospital in this state; motor vehicle registrations. • Any person residing on restricted military EXCEPTIONS: The following persons are deemed reservations in this state; to be residents of this state as long as they • Any person attending regularly a post- high continue to meet any of the conditions set forth school institution in this state as a full time below: student for 30 days or more immediately • Any person who previously had a domicile in preceding the application;

10 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 RESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION 2018 RESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION • Any foreign exchange student over 16 years of Military General Fishing and Hunting License age attending a public or private high school Any resident who is on active duty in the who has resided in the state for 30 days or armed forces of the United States and who is more preceding the application; stationed at a location outside the state may • Any foreign exchange student between fish and hunt small game without payment of a the ages of 12 and 16 who has completed fee or the applicable hunting and fishing license a hunter safety education course and has authorizing the activity. However, if the resident is been issued certificate of competency upon hunting migratory birds, the resident shall obtain completion of instruction and who has resided a State Migratory Bird Certification permit and in the state for 30 days or more preceding Federal Waterfowl Stamp (when necessary). While application for a license; engaged in the permitted activity, the resident shall • Any person who is a minor dependent of a possess and display appropriate military orders resident of this state; indicating the resident is on active duty stationed • For the purpose of acquiring resident small outside of South Dakota and a valid military game and fishing licenses, any person who identification card. This section does not apply does not reside in South Dakota, but who is a to any person who is serving on active duty for member of the South Dakota National Guard training as a member of the armed forces reserve or of any other unit of a reserve component of or National Guard. the armed forces of the United States located in South Dakota. Military Big Game License - Active Duty Any person in the armed services of the United Proof of Residency States who is absent from this state on active To buy a license, a resident age 16 or older duty during the entire time for making application needs a valid South Dakota driver’s license or a and is otherwise qualified and a resident of South state-issued and expiration-dated South Dakota Dakota, may apply for and shall receive deer, ID card. Either can be obtained at a state driver’s turkey and antelope licenses. In addition, any license office. Youth hunters under age 16 are spouse and any minor dependent child of such a required to provide a certificate of completion from person in the armed services who are also absent a hunter safety education course. from this state during the entire time for making application and are otherwise qualified, may apply Termination of Residency for and shall receive deer, turkey and antelope A person (other than a person who fits into one licenses. of the above EXCEPTIONS) is deemed to have terminated their South Dakota resident hunting, fishing and trapping status if the person does any Big Game License of the following: Resident big game (including turkey) licenses • Applies for, purchases or accepts a resident are issued by application and a drawing. Big Game hunting, fishing or trapping license issued by Licenses also allow the licensee to hunt prairie another state or foreign country; dog, jackrabbit, gopher, ground squirrel, crow, • Registers to vote in another state or foreign porcupine, marmot, red fox, grey fox, coyotes, country; skunks and other unprotected species through • Accepts a driver’s license issued by another Jan. 31. For a Big Game License to be valid to state or foreign country; hunt these species, the licensee must retain the • Moves to any other state or foreign country and top portion of the Big Game License. makes it the person’s domicile or makes any claim of residency for any purpose in the other Combination License state or foreign country. However, a person All Combination Licenses grant the same who has lawfully acquired a resident hunting, privileges as the Fishing License and Small Game fishing or trapping license and who leaves License. They do not include the State Migratory the state after acquiring the license to take up Bird Certification. residency elsewhere may continue to exercise all the privileges granted by the license until Disability License the license expires if the person’s respective The following residents may apply to the privileges are not revoked or suspended. License Office to receive a $10 Disability Card that is equivalent to the Fishing License and Small gfp.sd.gov 11 2018 RESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION Game License and is valid for four years: badger, bobcat, opossum, mink, weasel, beaver, • Persons who are paraplegics, or otherwise muskrat and skunk; and when and where allowed permanently physically unable to walk; is required to hunt bobcat, opossum, mink, weasel, • Persons blind or visually impaired; beaver and muskrat. However, a Furbearer • A person who has a developmental disability License is not required for residents to trap (fishing only), contact the GFP License Office raccoon, skunk, badger, jackrabbit, red fox, grey at 605.223.7660, or visit gfp.sd.gov fox and coyote from April 1 - Aug. 31. No license is • Resident veterans can qualify by one of four required for resident youth under age 16. ways: Predator/Varmint License (1) If they receive a veterans allotment for a forty The Predator/Varmint License is needed to percent or more disability which is deemed a hunt coyote, red fox, grey fox, skunk, raccoon, service-connected injury. badger, prairie dog, gopher, crow, jackrabbit, (2) If they have received the Department ground squirrel, porcupine and marmot. Other of Veterans Affairs “K” Award. licenses that may be used in lieu of the Predator/ (3) If they have served on active duty in the Varmint License include any valid resident South armed forces of the United States or have Dakota hunting license or furbearer license. For a served as a member of the armed forces Big Game License to be valid, the licensee must reserve or national guard, and the resident retain the top portion of the Big Game License. No is forty percent or more disabled for the license is required for resident youth under age 16. purposes of receiving social security benefits. (4) If they were a Prisoner of War. State Migratory Bird Certification A person must apply on forms provided by Except for landowners hunting on land that GFP and provide proof of South Dakota residency they own or lease, residents (including all Junior with the application. Details and applications are Combination License holders and Youth Small available from: GFP Licensing Office; 20641 SD Game License holders) hunting migratory birds Hwy 1806; Ft. Pierre SD 57532; or call 605.223. and/or waterfowl must complete and purchase this 7660 for details. certification. Migratory birds that require this certification Federal Waterfowl Stamp for hunting include ducks, geese, tundra swan, This stamp is an additional requirement for Sandhill crane, mourning doves, snipe and coot. those ages 16 and older to hunt ducks, geese, This certification should not be confused with the tundra swan and merganser. To purchase this Federal Waterfowl Stamp. stamp, check with your local U.S. Postal Office and/or local licensing agent. The stamp is part of the waterfowl hunting requirements in all states. However, hunters are required to purchase only Mentored Hunters (Under age 16) one stamp as long as the stamp is signed in ink Residents who are less than 16 are not required across the face and carried at all times while to possess a hunting license in order to hunt if hunting relevant species. GFP recommends that accompanied by a hunting mentor. hunters leave the stamp on the original backing A hunting mentor can be the mentored hunter’s on which it is issued. A lost or destroyed Federal parent or guardian or any other competent Waterfowl Stamp can be replaced only by adult (at least 18 years old) who has the written purchasing a new one. consent of the child’s parent or guardian. The NOTE: A Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not hunting mentor must be a resident, must be needed to hunt Sandhill crane, mourning dove, legally licensed for the game being hunted, snipe and coot or to take light geese during must be unarmed (may possess a permitted the Spring Light Goose conservation order and concealed pistol) and must have successfully Canada Goose August Management Take; completed a recognized hunter safety education however, a State Migratory Bird Certification is still course. Mentors must possess the hunter safety required for these species. education certification card on their person while accompanying a mentored hunter. For more Furbearer License information on Mentored hunting, refer to pages The Furbearer License is required to trap 60-65 of this publication. coyote, red fox, grey fox, jackrabbit, raccoon,

12 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 RESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION 2018 RESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION Youth (12-15) the State Migratory Bird Certification. The Junior Residents who are at least 12 years of age Combination License is valid through the end of or who will turn 12 by Dec. 31, may apply for or the license year even if the licensee turns 19. buy licenses and may hunt in any open season Landowners beginning Sept. 1 provided they have successfully Resident landowners and their immediate family completed a hunter safety education course and (husband, wife and children residing at home or on possess a course certification card and present land owned or leased by the landowner) may trap it at time of purchasing the license(s). A parent furbearers and hunt their property for small game or guardian must accompany the youth when (pheasant, grouse, partridge, quail, cottontail obtaining the license(s). rabbit, squirrel, mourning dove and snipe), Residents under age 16 are exempt from furbearers (opossum, muskrat, beaver, mink, buying the Furbearer License, Predator/Varmint skunk, raccoon, badger, red fox, grey fox, coyote, License and Federal Waterfowl Stamp. However, bobcat, weasel and jackrabbit) and predators/ they must buy the Youth Small Game License for varmints (prairie dog, gopher, crow, chipmunk, small game, migratory birds and waterfowl and ground squirrel, porcupine and marmot) without the State Migratory Bird Certification if hunting obtaining a hunting or Furbearer License. migratory birds and waterfowl. The Youth Small Landowners are also exempt from state Game License is valid through the end of the licensing requirements for waterfowl hunting license year even if the youth turns 16. However, on their property but must purchase a Federal upon turning 16 the youth must purchase the Waterfowl Stamp if they hunt ducks, geese, swans Federal Waterfowl Stamp if hunting migratory birds and mergansers. All laws and rules (season dates, and waterfowl. bag limits, etc.) pertaining to hunting and trapping Junior (16-18) must be followed. Residents age 16 through 18 are required to Shooting Preserves purchase the Junior Combination License (grants Residents hunting small game on licensed the same privileges as the Annual Fishing License shooting preserves must possess a South Dakota and Small Game License). It does not include license valid to hunt small game.

HUNTER SAFETY AND FIREARMS EDUCATION HUNTSAFE CLASS INFORMATION

HuntSAFE courses are designed for persons age 12 - 15. Eleven year olds may participate, but will not be issued a Hunter Safety certification card until their twelfth birthday. Adults are also welcome and invited to attend. Your HuntSAFE certification does not serve as bowhunter education certification. Class schedules vary from community to community. Once class schedules are finalized by local instructors, information is posted at gfp.sd.gov/hunter-education and on the agency’s social media platforms.

If a student’s 12th birthday falls on or between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31, they may be issued a card and eligible to obtain a license and hunt beginning Sept. 1 of that year.

gfp.sd.gov 13 2018 NONRESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION Nonresident Licenses and Fees 2018 licenses are valid Dec. 15, 2017 through Jan. 31, 2019 2019 licenses will be valid Dec. 15, 2018 through Jan. 31, 2020 Small Game (two 5-day periods)*...... $121 Youth Small Game, ages 12-15 (two 5-day periods)...... $10 Waterfowl (valid 10 days, lottery application only)*...... $121 Waterfowl (valid 3 days, lottery application only)*...... $86 Early Fall Canada Goose (lottery application only)*...... $50 Spring Light Goose Conservation Order*...... $50 Youth Spring Light Goose Conservation Order, ages 12-15...... $26 State Migratory Bird Certification...... $5 Predator/Varmint...... $40 Furbearer (application only)...... $275 Shooting Preserve (annual)*...... $121 Shooting Preserve (5-day)*...... $76 Shooting Preserve (1-day)*...... $46 * Fee includes a $6 surcharge mandated by state law. Revenue derived from this surcharge is dedicated to hunting access, wildlife damage management and animal damage control programs. Big Game Licenses bobcat, opossum, mink, weasel, beaver, muskrat Nonresident Big Game Licenses (including and skunks; and when and where allowed turkey) are issued by application and a drawing. is required to hunt raccoon, badger, bobcat, Big Game Licenses also allow the licensee to hunt opossum, mink, weasel, beaver and muskrat. prairie dog, jackrabbit, gopher, ground squirrel, Applications are available at local offices or online crow, porcupine, marmot, red fox, grey fox, at gfp.sd.gov. coyotes, skunks and other unprotected species through Jan. 31. For a Big Game License to be Landowners valid to hunt these species, the licensee must State law limits landowner license privileges retain the top portion of the Big Game License. to South Dakota residents only. Nonresident landowners must purchase the appropriate Federal Waterfowl Stamp nonresident licenses. This stamp is an additional requirement for Predator/Varmint License those ages 16 and older to hunt ducks, geese, Nonresidents may hunt prairie dog, jackrabbit, tundra swan and merganser. To purchase this gopher, ground squirrel, crow, porcupine, marmot, stamp, check with your local U.S. Postal Office red fox, grey fox, coyotes and skunks if they and/or local licensing agent. The stamp is part of possess a Predator/Varmint License or any valid the waterfowl hunting requirements in all states. South Dakota Hunting or Furbearer License (other However, hunters are required to purchase than nonresident shooting preserve). only one stamp as long as the stamp is signed in ink across the face and carried at all times while Shooting Preserve License hunting relevant species. GFP recommends that South Dakota permits private shooting hunters leave the stamp on the original backing preserves to offer hunting from Sept. 1 - March on which it is issued. A lost or destroyed Federal 31. Nonresidents hunting on a licensed shooting Waterfowl Stamp can be replaced only by preserve need the Nonresident Shooting Preserve purchasing a new one. License, Nonresident Small Game License or a NOTE: A Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not Nonresident Youth Small Game License. needed to hunt Sandhill crane, mourning dove, The Shooting Preserve License is valid through snipe, coot or to take light geese during Spring Jan. 31 only on licensed shooting preserves and Light Goose Conservation Order - a State allows the hunter to take only the game for which Migratory Bird Certification is still mandatory. the preserve is licensed. The license is valid to take Predator/Varmints on preserves through Furbearer License March 31. The Nonresident Furbearer License is required The Small Game License is valid outside to trap coyote, red fox, grey fox, raccoon, badger, the shooting preserve for the two 5-day periods 14 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 NONRESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION 2018 NONRESIDENT LICENSE INFORMATION specified on the license and valid on licensed 11A are valid for 10 consecutive days; Unit 00A is shooting preserves through Jan. 31 for the species valid through the entire season; and Units 00V, 00X, for which the preserve is licensed. 00Y and 00Z are valid for three consecutive days. Licenses are valid on private and public for Units Small Game License 00A, 00B, 11A, and 00Y. Licenses are valid only The Small Game License or Youth Small Game on private land for Units 00V, 00X and 00Z; these License is valid for two periods of five consecutive licenses are not valid on private property leased days. Starting dates must be chosen for BOTH by GFP for public hunting or on public highways or periods when the license is purchased. Both dates other rights-of-way otherwise open to hunting. must be filled in on the license even if the two The Nonresident Early Fall Canada Goose 5-day periods run consecutively. Nonresidents License is valid Sept. 1 - Sept. 30. Nonresidents may buy more than one Small Game License. may not hunt geese during this season in Units The start date for each 5-day period may be 2 and 3 or in the following counties: Beadle, changed prior to the start date. The change may Brookings, Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, be made online or at any license agent. License McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, agents may charge a fee of up to $8. This license Turner and Union counties. also allows nonresidents to shoot coyotes, red and On all limited-days Waterfowl Licenses, grey fox, skunks, prairie dogs and other unprotected successful applicants must provide a start date species through Jan. 31 and to hunt on licensed before the license will be issued. The dates can shooting preserves through Jan. 31. be changed prior to the start date; either online State Migratory Bird Certification or through the licensing office. These Waterfowl Nonresidents who hunt Sandhill crane, snipe Licenses also allow nonresidents to hunt coyotes, and mourning doves with a Small Game License red and grey fox, skunks, prairie dogs and other also need to purchase the State Migratory Bird unprotected species through Jan. 31. Certification (those hunting Sandhill crane with Youth License a Waterfowl License have met the requirement Nonresidents who are at least 12 years of with this license). Certification for migratory bird age or will turn 12 by Dec. 31, may apply for or seasons hunted with the Nonresident Waterfowl buy licenses and may hunt in any open season Licenses is included in the purchase process for beginning Sept. 1. Those younger cannot hunt in those licenses. South Dakota. Waterfowl Licenses To buy a license, nonresidents under 16 need A South Dakota Waterfowl License is required for a copy of their hunter safety education certificate nonresidents to hunt migratory waterfowl. Licenses or a copy of a current or previous hunting license for the fall seasons are issued by lottery. Licenses issued to them from any state. for the Spring Light Goose Conservation Order can be purchased through a local licensing agent Units 00B and 11A are valid for 10 consecutive days or online. Nonresident Youth Waterfowl Licenses are only valid during the two-day youth waterfowl Unit 00A is valid through the entire season season. Licensed waterfowl hunters may only hunt Units 00V, 00X, 00Y, and 00Z are valid for three within the unit designated on their license. consecutive days. The fall Waterfowl License for Units 00B and Licenses are valid on private and public for Units 00A, 00B, 11A and 00Y. Licenses are valid only on private Nonresident waterfowl hunting units: land for Units 00V, 00X and 00Z.

Campbell Campbell McPherson McPherson Marshall Roberts Corson Marshall Roberts Corson Harding Harding Brown Brown Perkins 00V 00Y Perkins Walworth Edmunds Walworth Edmunds Day Day

Grant Grant Dewey Dewey Potter Faulk Potter Faulk Codington Codington Butte Spink Butte Spink Clark Ziebach Clark Ziebach Deuel 00 Sully Deuel 00B Sully Hamlin Hamlin

Hyde Hand Hyde Hand Meade 00 Meade Stanley Beadle Lawrence Stanley Beadle Lawrence Hughes Kingsbury Brookings Hughes Kingsbury Brookings Haakon Haakon 00 Buffalo Buffalo Jerauld Jerauld Lake Sanborn Miner Lake Moody Sanborn Miner Moody Pennington Jones Lyman Pennington Jones Lyman Davison Davison Brule Hanson Jackson Brule Aurora Hanson Custer Jackson Aurora McCook Minnehaha Custer McCook Minnehaha Mellette Mellette

Oglala Tripp Douglas Oglala Tripp Douglas Hutchinson Lincoln Hutchinson Lincoln Lakota Turner Lakota Turner Fall Charles Fall Charles River Bennett Todd Gregory Mix River Bennett Todd Gregory Mix

Bon Yankton 11A 00A Bon Yankton Union Union Homme Homme Clay Clay

gfp.sd.gov 15 2018 SMALL GAME HUNTING INFORMATION RING-NECKED PHEASANT DATES: Oct. 20 - Jan. 6 OPEN AREA: All of South Dakota except: • Renziehausen Game Production Area and Game Bird Refuge in Brown and Marshall Counties, Gerken Game Bird Refuge in Faulk County and White Lake Game Bird Refuge in Marshall County are open Dec. 1 - Jan. 6. • Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Brown County is open Dec. 10 - Jan. 6. DAILY LIMIT: 3 rooster pheasants. POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 rooster pheasants, taken according to the daily limit. The limit accrues at the rate of 3 birds a day and 15 birds may not be possessed until after the fifth day of hunting. SHOOTING HOURS: 12 Noon, Central Time, to sunset Oct. 20 - 26; 10 a.m., Central Time, to sunset the rest of the season. NOTE: Central Time is used for opening shooting hours statewide. YOUTH RING-NECKED PHEASANT DATES: Oct. 6 - 10 OPEN AREA: Youth season is open statewide on private and public land. All road rights-of-way are closed to pheasant hunting during the youth pheasant season, except for the one-half of the road rights- of-way next to and part of public hunting lands. DAILY LIMIT: 3 rooster pheasants. POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 rooster pheasants, taken according to daily limit SHOOTING HOURS: 10 a.m. (Central Time) to sunset. ELIGIBILITY: Resident and nonresident youth hunters must be 12 (or turn 12 by Dec. 31) through 17 years old and properly licensed to hunt during the youth pheasant season. Those under age 16 must possess a valid hunter education certificate. If participating in a Resident Mentored Hunt, the youth hunter must be less than 16 years of age. See pages 64-65 for the requirements for “Mentored and Youth Small Game Hunting.” SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: All youth hunters must be accompanied by an unarmed adult. It is advisable that all wear at least one exterior garment of fluorescent orange. RESIDENT-ONLY RING-NECKED PHEASANT DATES: Oct. 13 - 15 OPEN AREA: Public lands, statewide, which include the following: • Hunting on road rights-of-way is limited to those contiguous to and a part of public hunting lands open for hunting. • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production Areas. • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land adjacent to the Missouri River. • U.S. Forest Service National Grasslands. • U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Land. • SD School and Public Lands. • State parks, recreation areas and lakeside use areas. • GFP managed or leased property otherwise open to public hunting, including Game Production Areas open during the regular pheasant season. • GFP managed and leased property designated as Walk-in Areas and land enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). • Non-toxic shot is required to hunt small game on most public lands. DAILY LIMIT: 3 rooster pheasants. POSSESSION LIMIT: 9 rooster pheasants, taken according to the daily limit. Limit accrues at the rate of 3 birds a day; 9 birds may not be possessed until after the third day of hunting. SHOOTING HOURS: Noon (central time) to sunset.

16 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 SMALL GAME HUNTING INFORMATION PRAIRIE CHICKEN and SHARP-TAILED GROUSE Includes ruffed grouse. DATES: Sept. 15 - Jan. 6 OPEN AREA: Statewide. DAILY LIMIT: 3 (any combination). POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 (any combination) taken according to the daily limit. Limit accrues at the rate of 3 birds a day; 15 birds may not be possessed until after the fifth day of hunting. SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset statewide.

Attention Prairie Chicken and Grouse Hunters Prairie chicken and sharp-tailed grouse hunters are requested to voluntarily submit wings at wing box collection sites found on the Ft. Pierre, Grand River and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands, with additional locations found across the state. This data is used to assist biologists in monitoring prairie grouse populations. Your cooperation to collect this information is greatly appreciated. View a listing of all wing box collection locations at gfp.sd.gov/maps/#7

GREATER SAGE-GROUSE SEASON CLOSED

GRAY PARTRIDGE AND CHUKAR DATES: Sept. 15 - Jan. 6 OPEN AREA: Statewide. DAILY LIMIT: 5 (any combination). POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 (any combination), taken according to daily bag limit. SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset statewide.

QUAIL DATES: Oct. 20 - Jan. 6 OPEN AREA: Statewide. DAILY LIMIT: 5 (any combination). POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 (any combination), taken according to daily bag limit. SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset statewide.

Attention Dog Owners Hunters who hunt public lands and road rights-of-way should understand their dogs may encounter fences, barbed-wire, posts, old machinery or other materials that may cause injury. In addition, most public lands allow trapping and snaring, dog owners should be aware they are sharing these lands with other users and may encounter these activities. Landowner permission is required for trapping on lands leased for public hunting such as: Walk-In Areas, Controlled Hunting and Access Program (CHAP) and Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) areas, however, the same potential risks may exist on these lands as well. Visit gfp.sd.gov to view an informational video.

gfp.sd.gov 17 2018 WATERFOWL HUNTING INFORMATION DUCK HIGH PLAINS: Visit: gfp.sd.gov/maps/#7 to view an interactive map. • Oct. 13 - Jan. 17 • The area west of Boundary

L P i A (see Boundary Definitions) A N

LOW PLAINS - NORTH ZONE: • Sept. 29 - Dec. 11 i B • The area east of Boundary A

and north of Boundary B H P

LOW PLAINS - MIDDLE ZONE: L P • Sept. 29 - Dec. 11 M • The area east of Boundary

A, south of Boundary B and i

north of Boundary C A LOW PLAINS - SOUTH ZONE: C i

• Oct. 27 - Jan. 8 L P • The area within Boundary C S BOUNDARY DEFINITIONS: • Boundary A - A line beginning at the SD-ND state line and extending south along U.S. 83 to U.S. 14, east on U.S. Hwy 14 to Blunt, south on the Blunt-Canning Road to SD Hwy 34, east and south on SD Hwy 34 to SD Hwy 50 at Lee’s Corner, south on SD Hwy 50 to I-90, east on I-90 to SD Hwy 50, south on SD Hwy 50 to SD Hwy 44, west on SD Hwy 44 across the Platte-Winner Bridge to SD Hwy 47, south on SD Hwy 47 to U.S. 18, east on U.S. Hwy 18 to SD Hwy 47, south on SD Hwy 47 to the SD-NE state line. • Boundary B - A line beginning at the junction of U.S. Hwy 83 and U.S. Hwy 212, then east on U.S. Hwy 212 to the SD-MN state line. • Boundary C - A line beginning at the junction of SD Hwy 47 and the SD-NE state line, then north on SD Hwy 47 to SD Hwy 44, then east on SD Hwy 44 to SD Hwy 50, then south on SD Hwy 50 to CFAS 6198 (Geddes Hwy) at Geddes, then east on the Geddes Hwy to U.S. Hwy 281, then south on U.S. Hwy 281 to SD Hwy 50, then east on SD Hwy 50 to I-29, then south on I-29 to the SD-IA state line. DAILY LIMIT: • Ducks: 6 - The daily duck limit may be comprised of no more than: • 5 mallards, which may include no more than 2 hens • 3 wood ducks • 3 scaup • 2 redheads • 2 canvasback • 2 pintail • 2 - bonus blue-winged teal (first 16 days of the season only) • (Low Plains North and Middle Zones: Sept. 29 - Oct. 14. Low Plains South Zone: Oct. 27 - Nov. 9; High Plains: Oct. 13 - 28). • Mergansers: 5, which may include no more than 2 hooded mergansers. • Coots: 15. POSSESSION LIMIT: Three times the daily limit; taken according to the daily limit. SHOOTING HOURS: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset. NON-TOXIC SHOT: Approved non-toxic shot is required to hunt waterfowl. See the “Non-Toxic Shot Regulations” section for more information. ANTELOPE ISLAND RESTRICTIONS: The Antelope Island area on Lake Sharpe (the area within the water’s edge from a north-south line across Lake Sharpe through the dredged channel at the east end of Hipple Lake, downstream to a north-south line across the reservoir 100 yards east of the eastern-most emergent vegetation on Antelope Island) has the following restrictions - No waterfowl decoys or hunting blinds may be left in the area between sunset and 5 a.m.; and no waterfowl decoys may be left unattended between 5 a.m. and sunset. 18 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 WATERFOWL HUNTING INFORMATION CANADA GOOSE Includes brant geese. Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset. Non-toxic Shot: Same as under Duck Regulations (pg. 18). Antelope Island Restrictions: Same as under Duck Regulations (pg. 18).

AUGUST MANAGEMENT TAKE: Aug. 18-31 Daily Limit: 15 geese Possession Limit: Unlimited Open Area: That portion of Pennington County west of the Cheyenne River. Federal migratory waterfowl stamp is not required. (SEE UNIT BOUNDARY MAP) UNIT 1: Sept. 1 - Dec. 16 Daily Limit: 8 geese from Sept. 1 - 30 8 geese from Oct. 1 - Dec. 16 Possession Limit: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit.

The counties of Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Butte, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Davison, Day, Deuel, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Haakon, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Harding, Hutchinson, Jackson, Jerauld, Jones, Kingsbury, Lake, McCook, McPherson, Marshall, Meade, Mellette, Moody, Miner, Oglala Lakota, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Todd, Turner, Walworth, and Ziebach, that portion of Dewey County north of Bureau of Indian Affairs Road 8, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Road 9, and the section of U.S. Highway 212 east of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Road 8 junction, that portion of Potter County east of U.S. Highway 83, that portion of Sully County east of U.S. Highway 83, portions of Hyde, Buffalo, Brule, Charles Mix, and Bon Homme counties north and east of a line beginning at the Hughes-Hyde county line on State Highway 34, east to Lees Boulevard, southeast to the State Highway 34, east 7 miles to 350th Avenue, south to Interstate 90 on 350th Avenue, south and east on State Highway 50 to Geddes, east on 285th Street to U.S. Highway 281, north on U.S. Highway 281 to the Charles Mix-Douglas county boundary, that portion of Bon Homme County north of State Highway 50, those portions of Yankton and Clay counties north of County Highway 585 (306th Street) to U.S. Highway 81, then north on U.S. Highway 81 to 303rd Street, then east on 303rd Street to 444th Avenue, then south on 444th Avenue to 305th Street, then east on Bluff Road (305th Street) to County Highway 19, south to State Highway 50 and east to the Clay/Union County line, and that portion of Perkins County west of State Highway 75 and south of State Highway 20, that portion of Lincoln County west of State Highway 17 and south of County Highway 116 (Klondike Road), and that portion of Minnehaha County north of a line beginning at the junction of the South Dakota-Minnesota state line and County Highway 122 (254th Street) west to its junction with County Highway 149 (464th Avenue), that portion west of County Highway 149 (464th Avenue) to Hartford, that portion west of County Highway 151 (463rd Avenue) to State Highway 42, that portion south of State Highway 42 to State Highway 17, and the portion west of State Highway 17 to the Minnehaha-Lincoln county boundary.

NOTE: Nonresidents may not hunt Canada Geese from Sept. 1 - 30 in the counties of Beadle, Brookings, Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, Turner and Union.

UNIT 2: Nov. 5 - Feb. 17. Those areas not included in Unit 1 or Unit 3. Daily Limit: 4 Possession Limit: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit. UNIT 3: Jan. 12 - 20. Bennett County. Daily Limit: 4 Possession Limit: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit.

NOTE: Bennett County is open to Canada goose hunting Oct. 20 - Dec. 23 by lottery license ONLY. All goose limits apply, but Canada geese must be tagged immediately upon possession of the bird. gfp.sd.gov 19 2018 WATERFOWLEarly Fall GHUNTINGoose Proposal -INFORMATION 2018

U 2 CANADA GOOSE UNIT BOUNDARY MAP

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Visit: gfp.sd.gov/maps to view an interactive map of these units.

YOUTH WATERFOWL SEASON DATES: Sept. 22 - 23 HUNTING UNIT: Statewide. SHOOTING HOURS: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset. DAILY LIMIT: • Ducks - Same as regular duck season. (Bonus blue-winged teal not allowed during youth season). • Canada Geese - The daily limit is 8 in Unit 1. The limit is 4 in Units 2 and 3. POSSESSION LIMIT: Twice the daily limit, taken according to daily limit. NON-TOXIC SHOT: Approved non-toxic shot is required to hunt waterfowl. See the “Non-Toxic Shot Regulations” section for more information. OTHER REQUIREMENTS: • Open to residents and nonresidents. • The youth hunter must be properly licensed to hunt waterfowl in the state, unless participating under a Resident Mentored Hunt scenario as described in the “Mentored and Youth Hunting” section. pg 66-67 Youth may not have reached age 16 by the first day of the season. • An adult (18 or older) must accompany youth. The adult may not hunt ducks but may participate in other open seasons, including the Canada Goose Season. • All other restrictions are the same as during the regular waterfowl seasons. • Nonresident youth must have a Nonresident Waterfowl License with valid dates during Sept. 22 - 23 or a Nonresident Youth Waterfowl License to participate in this hunt. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE SEASON DATES: Sept. 29 - Dec. 23, statewide. UNIT: Statewide. DAILY LIMIT: 2. POSSESSION LIMIT: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit.

LIGHT GOOSE SEASON DATES: Sept. 29 - Jan. 11, statewide. UNIT: Statewide. DAILY LIMIT: 50. POSSESSION LIMIT: Unlimited.

20 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 WATERFOWL HUNTING INFORMATION Recreation AN DRespect

Visit: gfp.sd.gov/maps to view an interactive map of these units. Photo © Sam Stukel © Sam Photo Ask before you access. Many areas of South Dakota are true hunting treasures, but gaining access to them will take an investment of time and an honest, respectful approach.

gfp.sd.gov 21 2018 FEDERAL LAWS FOR MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS Definitions of common terms used in federal species permitted to be taken by one person in regulations: any one day during the open season in any one specified geographic area for which a daily bag Aggregate daily bag limit limit is prescribed. The maximum number of migratory game birds permitted to be taken by one person in any one Gift of migratory game birds day during the open season when such person No person may receive, possess or give to hunts in more than one specified geographic another, any freshly killed migratory game birds as area and/or for more than one species for which a gift, except at the personal abodes of the donor a combined daily bag limit is prescribed. The or donee, unless such birds have a tag attached, aggregate daily bag limit is equal to, but shall signed by the hunter who took the birds, stating not exceed, the largest daily bag limit prescribed the hunter’s address, the total number and species for any one species or for any one specified of birds and the date such birds were taken. geographic area in which taking occurs. Illegal Hunting Methods Aggregate possession limit Migratory birds on which open seasons are The maximum number of migratory game birds prescribed in this part may be taken by any of a single species or combination of species taken method except those prohibited in this section. No in the United States permitted to be possessed persons shall take migratory game birds: by any one person when taking and possession • With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel occurs in more than one specified geographic area gun, shotgun larger than 10-gauge, punt gun, for which a possession limit is prescribed. The battery gun, machine gun, fish hook, poison, aggregate possession limit is equal to, but shall drug, explosive or stupefying substance; not exceed, the largest possession limit prescribed • With a shotgun of any description capable of for any one of the species or specified geographic holding more than three shells, unless it is areas in which taking and possession occurs. plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of removal without disassembling the gun, so its Baited area total capacity does not exceed three shells; Any area on which salt, grain or other feed has • From or by means, aid or use of a sink-box or been placed, exposed, deposited, distributed or any other type of low floating device, having scattered, if that salt, grain or other feed could a depression affording the hunter a means of serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game concealment beneath the surface of the water; birds to, on or over areas where hunters are • From or by means, aid or use of any motor vehicle, motor-driven land conveyance or attempting to take them. Any such area will remain aircraft of any kind; a baited area for ten days following the complete • From or by means of any motorboat or other removal of all such salt, grain or other feed. craft having a motor attached or any sailboat, unless the motor has been completely shut Baiting off and/or the sails furled and its progress has The direct or indirect placing, exposing, ceased; depositing, distributing or scattering of salt, • By the use or aid of live birds as decoys; grain or other feed that could serve as a lure or although not limited to, it shall be a violation for attraction for migratory game birds to, on or over any person to take migratory waterfowl on an any areas where hunters are attempting to take area where tame or captive live ducks or geese them. are present unless such birds are and have been for a period of 10 consecutive days prior Custody of birds of another to such taking, confined within an enclosure No person shall receive or have in custody any which substantially reduces the audibility of migratory game birds belonging to another person their calls and totally conceals such birds from unless such birds are tagged as required. the sight of wild migratory waterfowl; • By the use or aid of recorded or electrically Daily bag limit amplified bird calls or sounds or recorded or The maximum number of migratory game birds electrically amplified imitations of bird calls or of single species or combination (aggregate) of sound;

22 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 FEDERAL LAWS FOR MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS 2018 FEDERAL LAWS FOR MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS • By means or aid of any motor driven land, seed or other feed after removal from or storage water or air conveyance, or any sailboat on the field where grown. used for the purpose of or resulting in the concentrating, driving, rallying or stirring up of Marking package or container any migratory bird; No person shall transport by the U.S. Postal • While possessing loose shot for muzzle Service or a common carrier migratory game birds loading or shot shells containing other than unless the package or container in which such approved non-toxic shot; birds are transported has the name and address • By the aid of baiting or on or over any baited of the shipper and the consignee and an accurate area, where a person knows or reasonably statement of the numbers of each species of should know that the area is or has been birds therein contained clearly and conspicuously baited. marked on the outside thereof. However, nothing in this paragraph prohibits: • The taking of any migratory game bird, Migratory bird preservation facility including waterfowl, coots and Sandhill cranes, Any person who, at their residence or place of on or over the following lands or areas that are business and for hire or other consideration; or not otherwise baited areas; Any taxidermist, cold-storage facility or locker • Standing crops or flooded standing crops plant which, for hire or other consideration; or (including aquatics); standing, flooded or Any hunting club which, in the normal course of manipulated natural vegetation; flooded operations; receives, possesses or has in custody harvested croplands; or lands or areas where any migratory game birds belonging to another seeds or grains have been scattered solely person for purposes of picking, cleaning, freezing, as the result of a normal agricultural planting, processing, storage or shipment. harvesting, post-harvest manipulation or normal soil stabilization practice; Natural vegetation • From a blind or other place of concealment Any non-agricultural, native or naturalized plant camouflaged with natural vegetation; species that grows at a site in response to planting • From a blind or other place of concealment or from existing seeds or other propagules. The camouflaged with vegetation from agricultural term natural vegetation does not include planted crops, as long as such camouflaging does not millet. However, planted millet that grows on its result in the exposing, depositing, distributing own in subsequent years after the year of planting or scattering of grain or other feed; or is considered natural vegetation. • Standing or flooded standing agricultural crops where grain is inadvertently scattered solely No migratory bird preservation facility shall: as a result of a hunter entering or exiting a • Receive or have in custody any migratory game hunting area, placing decoys or retrieving bird unless accurate records are maintained downed birds. which can identify each bird received by or in the • The taking of any migratory game bird, except custody of, the facility by the name of the person waterfowl, coots and Sandhill cranes, on or from whom the bird was obtained and show: over lands or areas that are not otherwise • The number of each species; baited areas and where grain or other feed • The location where taken; has been distributed or scattered solely as the • The date such birds were received; result of manipulation of an agricultural crop or • The name and address of the person from other feed on the land where grown or solely whom such birds were received; as the result of a normal agricultural operation • The date such birds were disposed of; and • The name and address of the person to whom Manipulation such birds were delivered or The alteration of natural vegetation or • Destroy any records required to be maintained agricultural crops by activities that include but under this section for a period of one year are not limited to mowing, shredding, disking, following the last entry on the record. rolling, chopping, trampling, flattening, burning or • Record keeping as required by this section will not be necessary at hunting clubs which do not herbicide treatments. The term manipulation does fully process migratory birds by removal of both not include the distributing or scattering of grain, the head and wings.

gfp.sd.gov 23 2018 FEDERAL LAWS FOR MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS Please note these examples do not represent an Tagging requirement all-inclusive list of waterfowl regulations. For a No person shall put or leave any migratory detailed explanation, visit fws.gov/le/ or contact a game birds at any place (other than at his U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Law Enforcement personal abode) or in the custody of another Agent at: Columbia 605.885.6403, Hot Springs person for picking, cleaning, processing, 605.745.5076, Pierre 605.224.9045 or Bismarck, shipping, transportation or storage (including ND 701.255.0593. temporary storage) or for the purpose of having taxidermy services performed, unless such birds Normal agricultural planting, harvesting, have a tag attached, signed by the hunter, stating or post-harvest manipulation his address, the total number and species of birds A planting or harvesting undertaken for the and the date such birds were killed. Migratory purpose of producing and gathering a crop or game birds being transported in any vehicle as manipulation after such harvest and removal of the personal baggage of the possessor shall not grain, that is conducted in accordance with official be considered as being in storage or temporary recommendations of State Extension Specialists storage. of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Transportation Ship, convey, carry or transport by any means, Normal agricultural operation including delivery or receipt for such shipment, A normal agricultural planting, harvesting, conveyance, carriage or transportation. postharvest manipulation or agricultural practice that is conducted in accordance with official Transportation of birds of another recommendations of State Extension Specialists No person shall transport migratory game birds of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. belonging to another person unless such birds Department of Agriculture. are tagged as required. Normal soil stabilization practice A planting for agricultural soil erosion control Wanton waste of migratory game birds or post-mining land reclamation conducted in No person shall kill or cripple any migratory accordance with official recommendations of game bird without making a reasonable effort to State Extension Specialists of the Cooperative retrieve the bird and retain it in actual custody, at Extension Service of the U.S. Department of the place where taken or between that place and Agriculture for agricultural soil erosion control. either: • That person’s automobile or principal Possession limit means of land transportation; or The maximum number of migratory game • That person’s personal abode or birds of a single species or a combination of temporary or transient place of lodging; or species permitted to be possessed by any one • A migratory bird preservation facility; or person when lawfully taken in the United States • A post office; or in any one specified geographic area for which a • A common carrier facility. possession limit is prescribed. Termination of possession Possession of live birds Subject to all other requirements of this part, Every migratory game bird wounded by the possession of birds taken by any hunter shall hunting and reduced to possession by the hunter be deemed to have ceased when such birds have shall be immediately killed and become a part of been delivered by him to another person as a gift; the daily bag limit. No person shall at any time or or have been delivered by him to a post office, a by any means, possess or transport live migratory common carrier or a migratory bird preservation game birds taken under authority of this part. facility and consigned for transport by the U.S.Postal Service or a common carrier to some Take person other than the hunter. Pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture or collect; and includes attempting to do the same.

24 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 FEDERAL LAWS FOR MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS 2018 FEDERAL LAWS FOR MIGRATORY GAME BIRDS Species identification requirement each such bird at all times while being transported No person shall transport within the United from the place where taken until they have arrived States any migratory game birds unless the head at the personal abode of the possessor or a or one fully feathered wing remains attached to migratory bird preservation facility.

WATERFOWL INFORMATION: GFP creates thunderstorm maps by rating areas of each county on a scale of 1-10 regarding the current quality of waterfowl hunting opportunity. View them online at: https://gfp.sd.gov/maps/#6. Maps are updated on a weekly basis once the season begins and provides a good indicator of the duck and goose activity for the upcoming weekend. For the most current waterfowl population information, visit flyways.us. BANDED WATERFOWL AND MOURNING DOVES The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourage hunters who bag banded waterfowl and mourning doves to visit reportband.gov to report the band number and other important information. Respect the Past. Never Remove artifacts.

Cultural resources provide understanding and appreciation for South Dakota’s heritage. The removal of these artifacts from federal property violates Title 36 regulations and the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA). If you find an artifact, please leave it in its place and contact the nearest state park, recreation area or the Cultural Resource Violation Hotline 1.866.NO.SWIPE. Please provide accurate information on where the item or items have been located. help protect our cultural resources.

gfp.sd.gov 25 2018 TRANSPORTING, SHIPPING AND STORAGE Big Game Tagging and Transportation issued by GFP. However, at the conclusion of See Big Game Regulations. hunting, a licensed hunter may transport game birds, except wild turkey, legally taken by another Domicile person to a South Dakota wildlife processing A person’s established, fixed and permanent facility provided the birds are tagged with the home to which the person, whenever absent, has name of the hunter, the hunter’s address, the total the present intention of returning. number and species of birds taken, the date such birds were killed and the signature of the hunter. Game Bird Transportation and Packaging No game bird, including a wild turkey, may be Inspection of Wildlife Processing Facilities possessed, placed in public storage, transported No wildlife processing facility may prevent or accepted for shipment unless the following any GFP representative from entering the facility minimum requirements are met for each listed during normal business hours and inspecting species: any wild animal, records and the premises of the • Waterfowl shall include an attached fully facility. feathered wing or an attached head; and conform to federal requirements, including a Possession Limit tag with the signature of the hunter; The maximum number of a particular species • Pheasants and grouse, unless processed at a of game (excluding migratory game birds) that wildlife processing facility and accompanied by a person may lawfully have under their control the receipt or at the domicile of the possessor, (including those in their immediate possession, a shall include at least one of the following portable cooler in the vehicle, a home freezer, or attached: the head, a fully feathered wing or a registered in their name at a wildlife processing foot. The term, grouse, includes sharp-tailed facility/locker; or any combination thereof). Game grouse, ruffed grouse and prairie chicken; harvested during a previous season or year in • Wild turkeys, unless processed at a wildlife South Dakota and still in possession counts processing facility and accompanied by the toward the possession limit of the current license receipt, or at the domicile of the possessor, year. However, game (excluding migratory game shall include the attached leg and foot bearing birds) lawfully harvested under another state’s the tag issued with the license. Any wild license does not count towards the South Dakota turkey without spurs lawfully taken under a limit. male turkey license shall also have the visible See “Federal Laws for Migratory Game Birds.” beard attached. The leg and foot and beard if required, shall remain naturally attached to the Public Storage carcass at all times while being transported No person may place into public storage any from the place where taken until the carcass game bird, game fish or game animal unless the has arrived at the permanent residence of the game bird, game fish or game animal has attached possessor; to it a tag showing the owner’s name and address, • All other game birds, unless processed at a the number and kind of bird, fish or animal, the wildlife processing facility and accompanied by date the bird, fish or animal is placed in storage, the receipt, or at the domicile of the possessor, the date killed (for migratory game birds) and shall include the attached head or an attached hunter signature (for migratory game birds). Public fully feathered wing. storage is any business storing game birds, game If the head or wing is used for identification, it fish or game animals for a fee or a convenience shall have sufficient plumage attached to allow for and has a South Dakota sales tax license. prompt identification of the game bird. Game birds, if frozen, shall be packaged no more than two per Records Required for Wildlife package in order to facilitate identification and Processing Facilities count of species. No wildlife processing facility shall: Persons with a valid license may carry or • Receive or have in custody any wild animal transport only their own lawfully possessed game unless accurate records are maintained that birds as personal baggage. Game birds may not can identify each wild animal received by, be transported by unlicensed individuals, unless or in the custody of, the facility by the name accompanied by a valid transportation permit of the person from whom the wild animal

26 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 TRANSPORTING, SHIPPING AND STORAGE OF SMALL GAME AND WATERFOWL was obtained and show the number of each • The date of shipment; and species; the date each wild animal was • The name and address of the person to received; the name and address of the owner whom the small game or waterfowl has been of each wild animal; the date each wild animal shipped. was disposed of; and the name of the person or business to whom each wild animal was Transportation Permits delivered or A person other than the licensee may • Destroy records required to be maintained transport small game with a transportation and under this section for a period of one year shipping permit. A permit may be obtained from following receipt of each wild animal or a conservation officer or a designee without a • Allow any wild animal or parts, to leave the charge. Follow these steps to obtain a permit: facility without a receipt bearing the name • Contact a conservation officer or GFP Wildlife of the facility, number and species of wild Division office to arrange a meeting place and animals and name of the owner of each wild time. animal. • All persons involved must meet with the officer However, the provisions of this section do and bring their hunting licenses and game to not apply to any permitted bird harvested on a be transported. licensed shooting preserve and processed by the • Permits will not be issued before they are preserve permittee. needed. • Permits will not be issued as a means of Shipping/Common Carrier exceeding the daily/possession limit or A licensed hunter may carry as personal circumventing plumage, transportation or baggage any small game or waterfowl lawfully shipping requirements. taken or possessed by that hunter. No person may • See “Federal Laws for Migratory Game Birds” knowingly ship or receive for shipment by common for specific requirements for waterfowl and carrier any small game or waterfowl unless the other migratory game birds. container containing the small game or waterfowl has affixed to the outside of the container a Wildlife Processing Facility clearly visible statement containing the following A wildlife processing facility is any person or information: entity that has a South Dakota sales tax license • The name, address, and license number of the to operate a business that receives, possesses person shipping the small game or waterfowl; or has in custody any wild animal belonging to • The number and species of all small game another person for purposes of picking, skinning, and waterfowl in the container; cleaning, freezing, processing or storage.

Pheasant and Grouse Duck (or other migratory waterfowl)

Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 1 Option 2 Fully feathered Fully feathered One leg Fully feathered Fully feathered head attached wing attached and foot attached head attached wing attached

gfp.sd.gov 27 2018 OTHER SEASONS Daily Possession Species Dates Open Area Limit Limit *Mourning Dove u Sept. 1 - Nov. 9 15 45 Statewide *Common Snipe v Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 5 15 Statewide *Sandhill Crane w Sept. 22 - Nov. 18 3 9 w Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 Crow x Unlimited Statewide March 1 - April 30 Tundra Swan y Sept. 29 - Jan. 11 One per license y Prairie Dog z Year-round Unlimited Statewide z Cottontail Rabbit { Sept. 1 - Feb. 28 10 30 Statewide Tree Squirrel Sept. 1 - Feb. 28 5 15 Statewide Ground Squirrel, Gopher, Year-round Unlimited Statewide Porcupine, Marmot SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset for all species listed except mourning dove, Sandhill crane and tundra swan which is one-half hour before sunrise to sunset and crow, prairie dog, ground squirrel, gopher, porcupine and marmot, which are not restricted. * Although federal laws apply, a Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not required to hunt mourning dove, Sandhill crane or snipe. South Dakota State Migratory Bird Certification is still mandatory. uMourning Dove Restrictions. A person: • May not hunt mourning doves on or within 50 yards of a public road. • May not shoot a mourning dove unless the bird is flying. • May not hunt mourning doves with a shotgun capable of holding more than three shells. • May not hunt mourning doves in a state park or recreation area, except that portion of Angostura State Recreation Area lying west of the dam. NOTE: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourage hunters who bag banded doves to visit reportband.gov to report the band number and other important information. vCommon Snipe. Hunters must use non-toxic shot to hunt snipe. wSandhill Crane. Open area is South Dakota west of U.S. Hwy 281. Hunters must use non-toxic shot. xCrow. Electronic calls and rifles are legal to hunt crows. yTundra Swan. Only hunters who applied for and received a license through the License Office are eligible to hunt. Hunters must use non-toxic shot when hunting tundra swans. The open unit includes the counties of Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Marshall, McCook, McPherson, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Potter, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Sully and Walworth. Federal laws apply. zPrairie Dog. Prairie dog shooting is prohibited year-round in the Conata Basin and several other areas within the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands. Please contact the U.S. Forest Service for additional information regarding specific closure locations at 605.279.2125.

{Cottontail Rabbit. Landowners and their guests may hunt cottontail rabbit on the landowner’s property year- round without a limit.

28 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 OTHER SEASONS 2018 FURBEARER SEASONS FURBEARER SEASONS u Species Dates v Open Areas Mink, Weasel Nov. 3 - Jan. 31 Statewide West River except the Black Hills Fire Protection West River Year-round District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 Black Hills Fire Protection District south of I-90 and Black Hills Nov. 3 - April 30 Muskrat west of SD Hwy 79 East River Nov. 3 - April 30 East River w Shooting April 1 - Aug. 31 Statewide w West River except U.S. Forest Service land within the West River Year-round Black Hills Fire Protection District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 U.S. Forest Service land within the Black Hills Fire Jan. 1 - March 31 Beaver Protection District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 Black Hills Non-U. S. Forest Service land within the Black Hills Fire Nov. 3 - April 30 Protection District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 East River Nov. 3 - April 30 East River West River Dec. 26 - Feb. 15 West River Bobcat Buffalo, Brule, Clay, Charles Mix, Bon Homme, Hughes, East River x Dec. 26 - Jan. 20 Hutchinson, Hyde, Union and Yankton Counties. Red and Grey Fox, Badger, Raccoon, Skunk, Opossum, Year-round Statewide Jackrabbit, Coyote y Wolf z Closed

u Nonresidents may take only raccoon, beaver and muskrat from Dec. 2 - March 15, and bobcats from Jan. 13 - Feb. 15. Mink and weasel may be trapped from Dec. 2 - Jan. 31. Nonresidents may not use dogs to aid in taking raccoon. v Seasons begin at sunrise of opening day and end at sunset of closing day. w Muskrat Restrictions. • No trapping on or in muskrat houses of any size after March 15. • Only landowners and lessees, including SD School and Public land surface lease holders, on land they own or operate and state, county or township highway officials within road rights-of-way are allowed to shoot muskrats, statewide. Only rimfire cartridges of .22 caliber or smaller, muzzleloaders of .45 caliber or smaller, legal archery equipment, or shotguns with non-toxic shot are allowed.

x Bobcat. Hunters/trappers are restricted to one bobcat per hunter/trapper in the open areas in East River. y Coyote. In addition to a valid resident license, a free access permit is required for coyote hunting in Custer State Park (Season dates: Dec. 26 - March 31).

z Wolf. Wolves are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act.

NOTE: For additional restrictions see page 30-32.

gfp.sd.gov 29 2018 FURBEARER REGULATIONS Barbed Hooks Colony Traps Barbed hooks or other similarly sharpened The size of colony traps for muskrats may instruments may not be used to take furbearing not exceed 36 inches in overall length. If using a animals. round colony trap, the diameter cannot exceed 12 inches. If using a box colony trap, the height may Bobcat Carcasses not exceed 12 inches nor may the width exceed 12 Any person harvesting a bobcat must submit inches. the entire carcass, along with the detached pelt, to GFP personnel within five days of capture. Once Flagging the season has closed, an individual has 24 hours No person may flag, mark or attempt to claim to notify a conservation officer or wildlife damage a muskrat house on public lands or waters specialist of any untagged bobcats harvested before sunrise on opening day of the trapping during the season. The pelt will be inspected, season. After the season is open, marking of tagged and registered. The lower jaw will be muskrat houses is legal if the house contains an removed from the carcass. The tagged pelt will operational trap set. be returned. The carcass may be returned upon request. No person may possess, purchase or sell Furbearer Possession, Live raw bobcat pelts that are not legally tagged. Possession of live furbearers is prohibited except that no more than one live furbearer Body Grip Traps (commonly known as (either a raccoon, jackrabbit, skunk, red or grey conibears) fox or coyote) per household may be kept as Body grip traps with a jaw spread greater than a pet. In addition, the Animal Industry Board eight inches are permitted only as water sets. All requires a permit to keep mammals including of the bottom surface of these traps must remain certain furbearers. For details, contact the Animal completely below the water’s edge for beaver Industry Board at 605.773.3321. No pet furbearer year-round West River, except in the Black Hills may be physically altered except skunks may Fire Protection District. be descented. Sale or purchase of a pet wild On all public lands and road rights-of-way furbearer is prohibited. statewide, no person may set or operate a body grip trap when used in conjunction with any bait, Furbearers, Release or Killing lure, or scent with a jaw spread greater than 6 3/4 Except when kept as a pet as provided above, inches (i.e. larger than a 160 conibear) unless: a furbearer taken from the wild must either be • The trap is recessed in a plastic, wood, or metal released or immediately and humanely killed. cubby a minimum of seven inches from the front Landowners edge of the cubby to the trigger of the trap; or A resident of South Dakota may catch, trap or • The trap is set below the water’s edge of a kill furbearing animals upon land owned or leased stream, river, or other body of water. without obtaining a license to do so, during any NOTE: A single overhang on the top of the cubby period when hunting, catching, taking, trapping or does not meet this recess requirement. killing such animals is permitted. Catches Out of Season Live Mammals or Birds A trapper must immediately release any live The use of any live mammal or live bird to aid wild animal found in a trap or snare at a time when in the taking of a furbearing animal, predator or the established season is closed. Any trapper who varmint by a trap or snare is prohibited. finds a dead wild animal in a trap or snare out of season must leave the animal undisturbed in the Permission Required trap or snare and contact a GFP representative No person may attach a trap, including snares, within 12 hours. to any part of a fence along road rights-of-way adjacent to private land without permission from Closed Areas the adjoining landowner. Federal refuges, national monuments, state No person, except the adjoining landowner or game refuges, or privately owned areas within a person receiving written permission from the such lands are closed to hunting and trapping of adjoining landowner, may trap on public road furbearers. rights-of-way within 660 feet of a home, church or schoolhouse.

30 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 FURBEARER REGULATIONS 2018 FURBEARER REGULATIONS Snares may not be set within fenced pastures, attached by the swivel directly to the anchoring cropland, feedlots or fenced areas containing device or by chain or cable between the swivel domestic livestock without permission of the and the anchoring device. The swivel may not landowner or the operator. be more than four inches long and must operate A person must have a permit issued by the park freely when set. Attaching snares to a drag is manager to trap in a state park or recreation area. prohibited. Exempt from the above restriction that The free permits are valid Nov. 1 - Mar. 31. requires the use of a permanent stop are snares Permission is required from the landowner that have a lock or device with a breaking strength for trapping on private land leased for public of 350 pounds of pressure or less. Trappers who hunting in the Walk-In Area program, controlled use these types of snares must submit the snare Hunting and Access Program (CHAP) and the for breaking strength testing if requested by a GFP Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program representative. (CREP). It is unlawful to possess or transport snares not properly equipped, except manufacturers Pole Traps may obtain a free Shipping and Transportation No person may set or allow to be set any trap, Permit from a GFP conservation officer to ship snare or similar device on a pole or post in a or transport snares to another area that does not manner that a raptor may be captured, injured or require the same equipment as South Dakota. killed. Snares are prohibited May 1 - Nov. 13 on improved road rights-of-way and on all public lands Protected Animals statewide. No snare with a spring or other device No person may take wolf, pine (American) that applies pressure to the locking mechanism marten, black-footed ferret, swift fox, fisher, river (commonly referred to as: kill springs, choke otter or black bear. If any of these protected springs, compression springs, dispatch springs, species are accidentally caught the animal must ram snares, or similar devices) may be place on be released alive. If the animal is found dead, it a Game Production Area or Waterfowl Production must be left undisturbed in the snare or trap and a Area unless the snare is placed below the surface GFP representative contacted within 12 hours. of the water or ice.

Raw Furs Trap Checking Raw furs may be kept after the close of each Traps, including snares, must be checked prior respective season if the furs are checked with a to midnight of the second full calendar day (from GFP conservation officer within 10 days. the time the trap was initially set or last checked) east of the Missouri River and prior to midnight Restrictions of the third full calendar day west of the Missouri Except in Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and River. Any animal caught must be removed. Stanley counties where these laws do not apply for Traps or snares entirely submerged in the water muskrats, no person may: and remain set beneath ice must be checked and • Hunt mink or muskrats with dogs. any caught animals removed prior to midnight of • Dig or disturb a mink den or beaver house to the fifth full calendar day statewide. capture mink or beaver, or use poison, gas or smoke to kill or capture these animals. Trap Removals • Spear muskrat. If traps including snares are not being checked • Destroy a muskrat house, except that in open within the required trap check period, traps shall season a house may be opened in a manner be rendered inoperable and snares shall be closed that will not destroy or damage it as a place of to their permanent stop, or closed to less than habitation. 2-1/2 inches if not equipped with a permanent stop. All traps and snares (set or unset), stakes, Snares cables, chains, wires, or other devices used for Snares must have a mechanical lock, swivel the purpose of attaching a trap or snare must be device on the anchor end and stop device to removed from public lands and improved road prohibit the restraint loop from closing to a rights-of-way prior to May 1 of each year. diameter less than 2-1/2 inches. Snares must be

gfp.sd.gov 31 2018 FURBEARER REGULATIONS Trapping in State Parks Water Sets A person must have a permit issued by the park Traps (except any live cage trap or live box trap, manager to trap in a State Park or Recreation snares and traps designed specifically to catch Area (Custer State Park, Adams Homestead and raccoons such as coon cuffs and egg traps) cannot Nature Preserve in Union County and Beaver be placed or set in water or within 30 feet of water Creek Nature Area in Minnehaha County are from Oct. 1 to the opening of the mink season. closed to trapping). The free permits are valid Nov. However, body-grip traps may be set below the 1 - March 31. Applications can be found online or water’s edge for beaver, West River (excluding the contact any park office. A valid furbearer license is Black Hills Fire Protection District). All of the bottom required. Trappers must also be familiar with and surface of these traps must remain completely adhere to all park, firearm and vehicle restrictions. below the water’s edge at all times. No person may place any trap (set or unset), Trap Vandalism stake, cable, chain, wire or other device used No person may steal, damage or destroy for the purpose of attaching a trap or otherwise someone else’s trap, snare or animal in a trap. attempt to claim or mark a trap site on any public road rights-of-way or public lands or waters open to Visible Bait trapping within 30 feet of water from Oct. 1 to the Traps, including snares, may not be set within opening of the mink season, inclusive (please refer 30 feet of exposed bait visible to airborne raptors. to the Furbearer Season Chart for specific dates). Exposed bait is meat or viscera of any animal, bird or fish with or without skin, hide or feathers.

WOLF IDENTIFICATION Wolves are currently federally-protected under the Endangered Species Act. As of Dec. 23, 2014, harvesting gray wolves through recreational hunting or trapping across South Dakota is prohibited. However, an endangered species, such as the gray wolf, may be taken in defense of human life.

WOLF COYOTE • 2.5 feet tall • 1.5 feet tall • 5-6 feet long • 4 feet long • 70-120 pounds • 30-40 pounds • Broad snout • Narrow snout • Round ears • Pointed ears • Color light gray to black • Color light gray to brown • Track 4.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches long • Track 2.5 inches wide and 2-2.5 inches long • Claws evident • Claws evident

32 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook PITTMAN-ROBERTSON FUNDING The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with states, through their respective fish and game departments, for wildlife-restoration projects. States must meet federal standards for the conservation of wildlife; which includes a prohibition against the diversion of license fees paid by hunters for any other purpose than the administration of the state fish and game department. Funds are collected through excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, archery equipment and other hunting-related items. States must provide a 25 percent match to requested funds. The Pittman-Robertson funding allocation in 2018 totaled $13,775,104. In 2018, South Dakota allocated funds to programs listed in the below chart.

Land Management (46%)

Shooting1 Ranges (9%) 2 Hunter3 Education (8%) 4 Wildlife5 Survey | Research | Management (16%)

Walk-in Area Program (21%)

2018 BIG GAME SEASONS Big Game Licenses are issued by application. Season regulations accompany licenses. All elk, bighorn sheep, mountain lion, mountain goat and Custer State Park seasons are resident only. See gfp.sd.gov/hunt ANTELOPE ELK Archery Antelope: Aug. 18 - Oct. 31 Black Hills Firearms Elk • Closed during firearms season • Any Elk tags are valid Oct. 1 - 31 Firearm Antelope: Sept. 29 - Oct. 14 • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H1B, H4B, H7B and H9B are valid Oct. 15 - 31 and Dec. 1 - 16 DEER • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H2B, H2E, H2H, Sept. 8 - Jan. 1 Apprentice Season: H3B and H3E are valid Oct. 15 - 31 Sept. 1 - Jan. 1 Archery: • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H2C, H2F, H2I, Nov. 17 - Dec. 2 East River Deer: H3C and H3F are valid Dec. 1 - 16 • Only antlerless tags valid Dec. 8 - 16 • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H2D, H2G, H2J, Nov. 10 - 25 West River Deer: H3D and H3G are valid Dec. 17 - 31 • Unit 30A, Nov. 3 - 6 and 19 - 25 • Only antlerless tags valid Dec. 8 - 16 Prairie Firearms Elk • Unit 09A, Sept. 15 - Oct. 31 and Dec. 1 - 31 Nov. 1 - 30 Black Hills Deer: • Unit 11A, July 15 - Aug. 31

Custer State Park Deer: • Unit 11B, Sept. 1 - Oct. 19 • Any Deer and Any Whitetail Deer licenses: • Unit 11C, Oct. 20 - Nov. 30 Nov. 1 - 30 • Unit 11D, Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 • Archery only Nov. 1 - 15 • Unit 15A, Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 and Dec. 1 - 31 (see application for various Refuge Deer: • Unit 27A, Oct. 1 - 31 and Dec. 1 - 31 start dates for Sand Lake, Lacreek and Waubay • Unit 35A, Sept. 15 - Oct. 31 and Dec. 1-31 National Wildlife Refuges) Dec. 1 - Jan. 1 Black Hills Archery Elk Muzzleloader Deer: • Sept. 1 - 30 MISCELLANEOUS Custer State Park Archery Early Elk Black Hills Bighorn Sheep: Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 • Sept. 1 - 30 Badlands Bighorn Sheep: Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 Custer State Park Firearms Any Elk Black Hills Mountain Goat: Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 • Oct. 1 - 31 Fall Turkey: Nov. 1 - Jan. 31 Custer State Park Firearms Antlerless Elk Black Hills Mountain Lion (within Black • Unit CU1, Oct. 6 - 14 Hills Fire Protection District): Dec. 26 - March • Unit CU2, Oct. 20 - 28 31 or closed if the harvest limit of 60 mountain lions or 40 • Unit CU3, Dec. 8 - 16 female mountain lions is reached prior to March 31. • Unit CU4, Dec. 22 - 30 Statewide Mountain Lion: Year-round outside • Unit CU5, Jan. 5 - 13 of the Black Hills Fire Protection District. • Unit CU6, Jan. 19 - 27 gfp.sd.gov 33 2018 BIG GAME REGULATIONS The following is a synopsis of big game regulations. Other rules applicable to big game hunting may be found in other sections of this handbook. Big game regulations are also available on gfp.sd.gov Tag Definitions Decoys Any Deer - whitetail or mule deer buck, doe or fawn. Decoys may be used for big game hunting. Antlerless Deer/Elk - deer/elk of either sex without Dog Use While Hunting Big Game visible antler. No one may use a dog for hunting big game, Doe/Fawn Antelope - antelope of either sex without except for the following: horns or with horns less than three inches in length. • A dog that is leashed and under the control of a Any Turkey - wild turkey of either sex. handler may be used to track and retrieve any big Male Turkey - wild turkey with a visible beard/spurs. game animal that is wounded or presumed dead. • The use of dogs to hunt mountain lions is only Hen Turkey - wild turkey without a visible beard/spurs. allowed during those specified hunting intervals in Custer State Park that allow for the use of dogs Archery Equipment Restrictions: and outside of the Black Hills Fire Protection A person hunting with bow and arrow may not use District on private land with permission of the or possess any of the following: • Explosive, poisonous, hydraulic or pneumatic landowner or lessee. However, a pursuit of a points; mountain lion by dogs that originates on private • Crossbows and draw-lock devices that hold the land may cross over or culminate on property bow at partial or full draw except for persons owned by the Office of School and Public Lands with qualifying disabilities; or the United States Bureau of Land Management • Electronic devices mounted to the bow that other than the Fort Meade Recreation Area aid in the taking of game. However, cameras, video cameras, cell phones used exclusively Fluorescent Orange for photographic purposes, lighted sight pins Big game (excluding turkey and mountain lion) and illuminated arrow nocks may be used; licensees hunting with a firearm must wear at least one exterior garment of fluorescent orange while • Electronic arrow or electronic string releases; hunting. Garments include hat, shirt, vest, jacket, • Telescopic sights; coat or sweater. • An arrow without a broadhead (fixed or Refuge regulations require that firearm deer mechanical) that has at least two metal cutting hunters at Sand Lake and Waubay National Wildlife edges when hunting big game animals. However, an arrow tipped with any point may Refuges must wear a minimum of 400 square be possessed when used for practice; inches of visible solid fluorescent orange (not • A bow measuring less than 40 pounds pull camouflage orange) material on the head, chest when hunting an elk; and back. • A bow measuring less than 30 pounds pull when hunting big game animals other than elk. Legal Firearms No self-loading or auto-loading firearm that Bowhunter Education holds more than six cartridges may be used to All big game archery licensees under age 16 must hunt, pursue, shoot at, shoot, kill or wound any big possess a hunter safety education certificate. The game animal. No firearm that is capable of being National Bowhunter Education Foundation certificate operated as a full automatic may be used to hunt, is not required for resident or non-resident archery shoot, shoot at, wound, kill or pursue any big game licensees, however online and in person bowhunter or small game animal. Shotguns must discharge a single ball or rifled slug weighing at least one-half education is still available for those wanting to learn ounce. Buckshot is prohibited. more about archery. Deer, Antelope, Mountain Lion: Shoulder- held Concealed Pistol firearms using ammunition rated to produce at No firearm restrictions in place for any hunting least 1,000 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle season prohibit a licensee or person possessing a and handguns using ammunition that is rated to valid concealed pistol permit from carrying a pistol produce at least 500 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle, may be used to hunt deer, antelope and while hunting. mountain lion. Only soft-point or expanding bullets

34 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 BIG GAME REGULATIONS 2018 BIG GAME REGULATIONS are permitted. Shotguns must discharge a single Archery-Only Big Game Licensee ball or rifled slug weighing at least one-half ounce. No person who is licensed in a season Buckshot is prohibited. restricted to archery only may: Elk: It is illegal to use firearms that produce less • Possess a firearm in the field while hunting big than 1,700 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle game with bow and arrow, except a person and that are smaller than .243 caliber to hunt elk. who possesses a firearms big game license Only soft point or expanding bullets are permitted. that is valid for the same geographic area and Buckshot is prohibited. time of year as the archery license. Turkey: Shoulder-held firearms using • Possess a firearm in the field while hunting big ammunition which is factory-rated to produce at game with bow and arrow, except a person least 700 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle and who is carrying a pistol and possesses a valid handguns using ammunition which is factory-rated concealed pistol permit. to produce at least 500 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle may be used in the hunting of wild Personal Property on Public Land turkeys. Buckshot is prohibited. A person may not leave any property after 11:00 Muzzleloading Firearms: In seasons restricted p.m. on public lands owned, leased, or controlled to muzzleloading firearms, telescopic sights are by GFP or in the water adjoining such an area, or not allowed. Telescopic sights are those sights that within the right-of-way of the George S. Mickelson utilize magnification. No person may hunt, shoot, Trail unless that person is legally camped, lodged, shoot at, wound, kill or pursue any big game or fishing or the property is located in a leased animal with any muzzle loading rifle which is less than .44 caliber. Muzzleloading handguns must space designated for the specified use of that discharge a projectile of .50 caliber or larger. property. A person may not leave any fish houses for more than five days on lands owned, leased, or NOTE: Hunters filling big game tags that are not restricted to archery or muzzleloaders may controlled by GFP without written permission from use any of the weapons described under “Legal an authorized representative of the department. Firearms” or “Archery” or any combination of The provisions of this section do not apply to weapons. Additionally, a person who holds a Big legally placed tree stands, elevated platforms, Game License to take a big game animal during portable blinds, trail cameras, or trapping the firearm season may take the animal by using a equipment. crossbow in lieu of a firearm. The crossbow shall Except for legal tree stands, portable blinds, have at least 125 pounds pull and have a working trail cameras and trapping equipment all personal mechanical safety. property must be removed from lands managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by the end of Nonlicensees/Accompaniment each day. All Big Game Licensees Prohibited Felons No person possessing a firearm, including a An individual who has a felony conviction might muzzleloading firearm or a bow and arrow may be prohibited from possessing a firearm by state accompany a big game hunter in the field or or federal law. According to state law the term cooperate as part of a big game hunting group “firearm” now includes any antique firearm and unless the accompanying person possesses any muzzleloading rifle, muzzleloading shotgun a Big Game License that is valid for the same or muzzleloading pistol, including muzzleloading geographic area and time of year as the licensee. weapons that are designed to use black powder This restriction does not apply to any person or a black powder substitute and cannot use fixed who is carrying a pistol and possesses a valid ammunition. concealed pistol permit, nor does it apply to a person who is legally licensed to hunt small Restrictions game (or exempt from license requirements as No one may discharge a firearm, muzzleloader, provided by SDCL 41-6-2) and hunting only with a crossbow or bow and arrow at any big game shotgun using shot shells. A person hunting small animal, except turkey may be taken with a shotgun game and accompanying a licensed firearm big using shot shells or with a bow and arrow, from within the rights-of-way of an improved highway game hunter in the field may not use dogs while including gravel township roads. accompanying a big game hunter.

gfp.sd.gov 35 2018 BIG GAME REGULATIONS No one may discharge a firearm or other Tagging and Transportation weapon across or from a Black Hills National The tag you receive with your license must be Forest System road. signed, dated and securely attached to the leg No person may place any salt or salt lick of the big game animal at the time it is brought or construct, occupy or use any screen, blind, to a road or into any hunting camp, farmyard or scaffold or other device at or near any salt or salt residence or before it is placed in or on a vehicle. lick for the purpose of enticing or baiting big game The locking seal issued with each Big Game animals to the same for the purpose of hunting, License is an adhesive tag. You must sign and date watching for or killing big game. the tag by cutting out completely the month and No one may establish, utilize or maintain a bait day of the date of kill. Then you must attach the tag station from Aug. 15 - Feb. 1, inclusive and from securely around one hind leg between the hoof and March 15 - May 31, inclusive, to attract any big ankle joint of all hoofed big game animals, except game animal (including turkey). A bait station is a elk or around one leg of a turkey. location where grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, hay, Elk must be tagged by cutting a slit through the minerals (including salt) or any other natural food hide on one hind leg between the hock tendon and materials, commercial products containing natural the leg bone and securely fastening the adhesive food materials or by-products of such materials are tag around the hock tendon directly above the placed or maintained as an attractant to big game ankle joint. animals for the purpose of hunting. The use of Tagging allows a big game animal to be scents alone does not constitute a bait station. The transported and stored by the hunter or another bait station restriction does not apply to foods that person for the hunter. have not been placed or gathered by an individual No one may lend a license or tag to another and result from normal environmental conditions or knowingly issue or aid in securing a license or or accepted farming, forest management, wildlife preference point for any person not legally entitled food plantings, orchard management or similar to it. land management activities. Individuals are No person may possess in the field or transport exempt from the bait station requirements while a big game animal (including boned out meat), participating in any research or depredation except turkey, unless it is accompanied by the management activities directed by GFP. animal’s lawfully tagged leg along with either the No person may establish, utilize or maintain animal’s head or a hind quarter with the visible a bait station on lands owned by the GFP and external sex organs left naturally attached to it. on properties managed and classified by GFP Any person licensed to take any deer, any elk as Game Production Areas, State Parks, State or any antelope is exempt from transporting the Recreation Areas, State Lakeside Use Areas, animal’s head or hind quarter with attached sex State Nature Areas or State Water Access Areas. organs if the lawfully tagged leg accompanies the animal for such license. However, the provisions of Additionally, the distribution of bait and hunting this section do not apply to a Big Game Licensee over bait is prohibited on U.S. Fish and Wildlife who transports big game parts (including boned Service Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA’s). out meat) from the licensee’s domicile to another No one may use an electronic call when hunting location if the licensee possesses the big game big game (including turkey). Electronic calls are tag or Big Game License entitling the licensee to allowed for mountain lion hunting. the animal or to big game that has been cooked or No one may kill a big game animal not in cured, by means other than freezing, for personal season or kill a big game animal in season and not consumption. If a person other than licensee tag and claim the animal. transports big game animal parts (including boned meat) from the licensee’s domicile to another Shooting Hours location, the tagged leg or a transportation permit All firearms and archery big game shooting must accompany the items being transported. hours (except turkey) are one-half hour before Turkeys possessed or transported in the field, sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. Shooting shall include the attached leg and foot bearing the hours for turkey season are one-half hour before tag issued with the license. Any wild turkey without sunrise to sunset. spurs lawfully taken under a male turkey license

36 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 BIG GAME REGULATIONS 2018 BIG GAME REGULATIONS shall also have the visible beard attached. The on lands owned, leased, or controlled by GFP. leg and foot and beard if required, shall remain Portable tree stands, portable blinds, and climbing naturally attached to the carcass. devices that do not utilize nails, wire, or bolts for If someone other than the licensed hunter is attachment are allowed from Aug. 25 - Feb. 15, transporting big game parts (antlers, hide and etc.) inclusive. Portable blinds may also be used during to a taxidermist, the parts must be accompanied by the spring turkey seasons by licensed spring turkey the tagged leg or appropriate documentation that hunters. One screw-in “T” may be used to stabilize a would allow a conservation officer to determine that tree stand. Removable screw-in steps may be used the items in transport were lawfully possessed. to access a tree stand. The name and address OR Big game taken in another state or with a tribal the year and current applicable big game license license must be properly tagged when transported number of the owner or user must be on the exterior within South Dakota. If no tag was issued, the of an unoccupied portable blind and legible from person in possession of the animal must provide the ground on a tree stand. Other elevated platform proof the animal was lawfully taken. devices that are not attached to a tree must meet Trail Cameras on GFP Lands the requirements of this rule for permitted dates and Any trail camera placed on public lands owned, for labeling if left overnight or unattended. A properly leased, or controlled by GFP may be attached labeled tree stand on GFP land is privately owned to a tree, post, or other structure by utilizing no property. more than one nail, bolt, or screw. The name The use of nails, wires, screws, bolts or screw-in and address of the owner or user OR the year type steps is prohibited on National Wildlife Refuges and current applicable big game license number and Waterfowl Production Areas, both managed by of the owner or user must be on the exterior of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. an unattended trail camera. A trail camera is a Contact Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge for remotely activated device set to capture photos, specifics on placement of deer stands within the video, sound, or other evidence of activity while the Refuge. Call 605.885.6320 or visit fws.gov/sandlake. user is absent from the location. Turkey Hunting Restriction No turkey may be shot in a tree or roost. Lead Tree Stands/Portable Blinds on Public Land shot is legal for turkey hunting on all public lands. Construction or use of permanent tree stands, permanent blinds, and climbing devices is prohibited

LEGALLY TRANSPORTING DEER

How do I transport my deer from the field? The deer (including boned out meat) must be accompanied by the animal’s lawfully tagged leg along with either the animal’s head or a hind quarter with the visible external sex organs left naturally attached to it. However, a person with an any deer license must only provide the lawfully tagged leg that accompanies the animal for such license. Can I transport a deer for another person? Tagging allows a deer to be transported and stored by the hunter or for the hunter. If a person other than licensee transports deer parts (including boned meat) from the licensee’s domicile to another location, the tagged leg OR a transportation permit must accompany the items being transported. What do I need to transport my deer from my domicile to the taxidermist or processor? You must carry the big game tag or Big Game License entitling you to the animal.

gfp.sd.gov 37 HUNTING ON PUBLIC ROAD RIGHTS-OF-WAY 2018 GENERAL LAWS Hunting on Public Road Rights-of-Way NOTE: Fences are sometimes not on a rights-of- Laws and rules governing trespass and motor vehicles way boundary and sometimes there is no fence. are complex. The laws may be simplified if the hunter Most section line rights-of-way are 66 feet wide. remembers to hunt only on foot during established Some acquired rights-of-way are wider. seasons, to ask permission to enter private land and not • Hunters can take only small game (except to drive on state and federal lands. It is also advisable to mourning doves) and waterfowl within the restrict vehicular travel in wet weather when roads, trails, rights-of-way on foot. The hunter must be rangeland and cropland could be damaged and in dry within the rights-of-way and the game must conditions when fire danger is high. originate from the road rights-of-way or be flying over the rights-of-way. ATTENTION DOG OWNERS: Hunters who hunt road • The person must park or stop their vehicle rights-of-way should understand they must maintain as far to the right-hand side of the road as control of their hunting dogs at all times. Dog owners possible. who allow their animals to remain on private property • If the person who discharges a firearm is more without landowner permission for the purpose of flushing than 50 yards from the vehicle, the doors on game birds may be subject to trespassing charges. Dogs the side of the vehicle nearest the roadway may be used in the unarmed retrieval of lawfully taken must be closed, but the engine may remain waterfowl and small game birds from private property. running. However, under no circumstances may dogs be used to • If the person who discharges a firearm is less intentionally flush birds from private property to hunters in than 50 yards from the vehicle, all of the doors the road rights-of-way. of the vehicle must be closed and the engine shall be turned off. Road rights-of-way, excluding the Interstate • It is NOT legal to shoot small game and highway system, are open for the hunting of waterfowl that takes flight from rights-of-way small game and waterfowl (see Mourning Dove, over a Federal Refuge or Tribal lands. If a Youth Pheasant and Resident-Only Pheasant state-licensed hunter shoots at a bird across seasons for special road hunting restrictions). Only the fence on either of these lands, the hunter the owner of the occupied dwelling, church, or may be subject to federal arrest. schoolhouse; the owner of livestock; or a person • Small game and waterfowl taken from the who has written permission from the owner of the rights-of-way but falling onto private property occupied dwelling, church, or schoolhouse, or the can be retrieved by unarmed hunters on foot. owner of the livestock may use such highways or • No person may discharge a firearm, rights-of-way for the purposes of discharging any muzzleloader, crossbow or bow and arrow firearm or for the purposes of hunting within a 660 at any big game animal, except turkey to be foot safety zone surrounding an occupied dwelling, taken with a shotgun using shot shells or with a church, schoolhouse, or livestock. No other a bow and arrow, from within the rights-of-way person may discharge a firearm at small game of an improved public highway. within the safety zone. • A person may not discharge a firearm or The rights-of-way along a section line or other weapon across or from any Black Hills other highway are open for hunting if: National Forest system road. • The rights-of-way have been commonly • Any person who, while hunting road rights-of- used by the public for vehicular travel, as way, negligently endangers another person demonstrated by the existence of a well-worn or puts that person in fear of imminent vehicle trail. serious bodily harm, is guilty of a Class 1 • An intentional alteration or adaptation has misdemeanor. been made to the rights-of-way to enhance the natural terrain’s utility for vehicular travel or to permit vehicular travel where it was not possible before.

38 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 GENERAL LAWS Artificial Light sunrise from Sept. 1 to Jan. 31. During this time During the time from sunset to sunrise, no frame, a person who has no weapons in possession person may use or possess night-vision equipment may only use their vehicle headlights to spot or or throw or cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight, locate wild animals. Hand-held spotlights and other or other artificial light on any highway, or in any lights otherwise attached to the vehicle are not legal. field, pasture, woodland, forest, or prairie, for The three exceptions to this law are the same as the purpose of spotting, locating, or taking or those found under “Artificial Light” above. attempting to take or hunt any animal while having Boating Restrictions in possession or control any firearm, bow or other Hunters and trappers must follow all state and implement whereby any game could be killed. federal boating regulations when operating boats However: on public waters in South Dakota. Those using • A person may use a hand held light while on a boat for hunting or trapping purposes should foot, to take raccoons after they have been verify they have all required boating equipment on treed by dogs; board and their vessel is currently and properly • A landowner or occupant and no more than licensed. two guests accompanied by the landowner or The 2018 South Dakota Boating Handbook is occupant may use an artificial light and night available from regional wildlife offices and from vision equipment on the owner’s or occupant’s county treasurer offices or online at: gfp.sd.gov/ land, with a shotgun using shot shells only or a pages/regulations. firearm using a rimfire cartridge in the taking of The following list includes water bodies in South jackrabbits, coyotes, beaver during its hunting Dakota with boating or boat motor restrictions that season, foxes, raccoons, opossums, badgers, may impact hunters and trappers. On waters with skunks, or rodents; motor restrictions, boats with motors exceeding • A landowner or occupant, eighteen years of the maximum horsepower can be operated with age or older, and no more than two guests alternate motors under the maximum horsepower. accompanied by the landowner or occupant A complete listing of public water safety zones by may use night vision equipment on the county may be found online at: legis.sd.gov. owner’s or occupant’s land, with a firearm • Aurora County: Wilmarth Lake, no wake zone. using a cartridge with a bullet diameter below • Beadle County: Staum Dam, no wake zone. .225 inches, in the taking of jackrabbits, • Bon Homme County: Lake Henry, no wake coyotes, beaver during its hunting season, zone. foxes, raccoons, opossums, badgers, skunks, • Brown County: Willow Dam Wildlife or rodents; and Management Area, no motor boats or motor • A landowner or occupant, eighteen years of vehicles; Putney Slough Game Production Area, age or older, may issue written permission no boating Oct. 15 - Dec. 31 in Secs. 7, 8, 17 to no more than two guests who may hunt and 18 in T124N, R61W. unaccompanied by the landowner or occupant. • Clark County: Reid Lake, no boating Oct. 20 Any unaccompanied guest may use night - Dec. 31. vision equipment on the owner’s or occupant’s • Codington County: McKilligan Lake, no land, with a firearm using a cartridge with boating during waterfowl seasons; Horseshoe a bullet diameter below .225 inches, in Lake, no motors during waterfowl seasons; the taking of jackrabbits, coyotes, beaver Long Lake in Secs. 11, 12, 13 and 14 of T117N, during its hunting season, foxes, raccoons, R55W, no boating year-round; Blythe Slough in opossums, badgers, skunks, or rodents. portions of Secs. 27 and 28 of T117N, R55W, no Night-vision equipment includes thermal imaging boating from March 1 - Aug. 31. equipment and is an optical device utilizing light • Custer County: Sylvan and Legion lakes amplifying circuits that are electrical or battery electric motors only; Center Lake, no wake powered. zone. Recreational Artificial Light Law • Day County: Hillebrand’s and Spring lakes To minimize disturbance to wildlife and rural and Swan Pond, no boating; Blue Dog Lake on residents, state law prohibits a person from using an waters fronting the Lakeside Use Area starting artificial light other than headlights to spot or locate at east property boundary and extending 300 any wild animal between the hours of 10 p.m. and feet west along shore in a no wake zone.

gfp.sd.gov 39 2018 GENERAL LAWS • Deuel County: Lake Oliver, no wake zone. north/south section lines between Secs. 22 and • Fall River County: Cold Brook and Cottonwood 23 and Secs. 26 and 27, T106N, R66W, no reservoirs, electric motors only motors Oct. 20 - Dec. 31.

• Hand County: Wall Lake, no motors during Civil Damage Liability waterfowl seasons. Violations of most big game regulations are • Hanson County: Hanson Lake, no wake zone Class 1 misdemeanors, punishable by fine and/ when lake elevation is 12” or greater over the or imprisonment and mandatory loss of hunting spillway elevation. privileges for one year. In addition to criminal • Hughes County: Hipple Lake west of the buoy, penalties, a person taking or killing big game electric motors only. illegally may be assessed civil damages in the • Hutchinson County: Silver Lake, no boating amount of $100 for each game bird, $200 for each during fall and spring waterfowl seasons; turkey, $1,000 for each non-trophy deer, non-trophy Dimock, Tripp and Menno lakes, no wake zone. antelope or bobcat, $5,000 for each non-trophy • Lake County: Long Lake, no wake zone elk, mountain lion or buffalo and $10,000 for each except during July and August; the water of mountain goat or bighorn sheep. Sunset Harbor, including the entrance canal, no Cases involving “trophy” antelope or deer, civil wake zone. damages will be at least $2,000 and not more than • Lincoln County: Lake Alvin and Lake Lakota, $5,000 for each animal; cases involving “trophy” no wake zone. elk, civil damages will be at least $6,000 and not • McCook County: The waters of Lehrman more than $10,000 for each elk. If a person has Game Production Area, in Sec. 32, T103N, taken or is in possession of more than two times R56W, no boating during the Light Goose the lawful daily or possession limit of a regulated Conservation Order as well as any open wild animal, such person may be liable for twice season for migratory waterfowl. the civil damages. In addition, individuals charged • Meade County: Bear Butte Lake, no wake with the illegal taking of a trophy big game animal zone. are subject to loss of all preference points for the • Minnehaha County: Clear Lake, no boating lottery license drawing for that season. Oct. 20 - Dec. 31. Closed Areas • Moody County: Lake Campbell, no wake zone The following are illegal: south of Moody County Road 1; Battle Creek, • Hunting without permission of landowner on no wake zone from Lake Campbell south to the legally vacated section lines. steel bridge one mile south of Moody County • No person (except the landowner or anyone Road 2. with landowner permission) may hunt on public • Pennington County: Deerfield Reservoir, no waters that inundate private land within 660 wake zone. feet of livestock, occupied dwelling, churches • Roberts County: Secs. 20, 28, 29, 32 and or schoolhouses. 33 of T128N, R49W of Cottonwood Lake • Discharging firearms or hunting road Waterfowl Refuge, no boating zone during rights-of-way within 660 feet of a occupied waterfowl seasons; and Secs. 11, 12 and 14 of dwelling, church, schoolhouse, or livestock T127N, R48W of Mud Lake, only boats using without written permission from the owner of electric motors during waterfowl seasons. such property. NOTE: Hunters often violate • Turner County: Swan Lake, no motors on this state law when trees obscure feedlots, waters south and west of Christian Camp; and livestock, buildings and dwellings. A violation of the waters at the eastern end of Swan Lake the 660-foot law carries a one-year suspension within an area starting at a point along the of hunting privileges when the distance is shoreline approximately 60 feet south of the clearly and accurately posted concrete retaining wall that is located on the • Hunting waterfowl within state waterfowl north side of the beach on a line to a point 100 refuges or game birds (including waterfowl) feet westerly, then on a line to a point 100 feet within state game bird refuges except as southerly, then on a line in an easterly direction provided in season regulations. back to a point on shore are a no boating zone. • Hunting during the waterfowl seasons along • Yankton County: Marindahl Lake, no wake Brown County Road 16 adjacent to the Sand zone; Lake Yankton, electric motors only of the Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

40 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 GENERAL LAWS • Hunting within any federal refuge, National Electronic Calls Park or monument, except as otherwise The use of electronic calls is prohibited when provided for in season regulations. hunting migratory birds (except for crows and during the spring light goose conservation order) Dog Training and when hunting big game except for mountain No person may kill or capture any wild game lion. Turkeys are considered big game. birds while training or running a dog except during open seasons. Using pen-raised birds to train dogs Falconry-General is permitted with certain restrictions: A person may hunt by falconry in South Dakota • No person may train dogs on wild game birds if they have been issued a falconry permit by from April 15 - July 31 statewide. From Aug. 1 their state of residence and have obtained the through the Friday preceding the third Saturday appropriate South Dakota hunting licenses. Non- in September, a person may train a dog for the migratory game birds and game animals may be purpose of locating, pursuing or pointing wild hunted Sept. 1 - March 31. Migratory game birds game birds on publicly-owned land or on road may be hunted only in accordance with state and rights-of-way with the following restrictions: federal migratory game bird season regulations • No more than four dogs may be trained in any for 107 days beginning no earlier than Sept. 1 and one day. In addition, a person may not use or ending by Jan. 15. The daily bag limit is three and carry a shotgun or rifle during training. the possession limit is six of game species in the • The dog(s) must be owned by the person aggregate. A person may not hunt by falconry and conducting the training and not offered for sale. be in possession of a firearm or be accompanied • The owner of the dog may be assisted in the by a person carrying a firearm, except if the training if the owner is present. person is carrying a pistol and possesses a valid • No motor vehicle, horse or any other concealed pistol permit. Protected nongame birds conveyance may be used. and animals taken incidentally by a raptor may not • However, persons who otherwise qualify to be retained or possessed. train dogs on public lands may use a horse for dog training on public lands until noon central Falconry-Taking or Acquisition of Raptors time on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from No person may take or attempt to take any raptor the first Friday of August to the first Sunday of without first acquiring a raptor collecting permit September, inclusive, with authorization of the issued by GFP. Permittees must be in immediate government agency managing the public land. possession of the raptor collecting permit while • For complete rules write to Game, Fish and taking or attempting to take raptors. The fee for a Parks Permits; 20641 SD Hwy 1806; Fort nonresident raptor collecting permit is $200. Pierre, SD 57532. The trapping of passage raptors (immature • The use of dogs is encouraged for hunting raptors in their first year plumage) is permitted on federal U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service only between Aug. 1 - March 31. Only resident Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA’s). Dogs general or master falconry permittees may take are allowed for other recreational activities eyas (young, flightless birds) from a nest or aerie. only if confined to a vehicle, boat, ice house At least one eyas must be left in the nest or aerie. or on a leash controlled by the handler. Dog Eyas may be taken only May 1 - July 31. For training and dogs roaming freely on WPAs are additional information, visit gfp.sd.gov/falconry- prohibited. permit. Dog Requirements Federal Lacey Act Dogs being brought into South Dakota are No person may transport or ship to another state required to have a certificate from their local fish and wildlife unlawfully taken, possessed or veterinarian indicating that they are vaccinated sold in South Dakota. against rabies. A health certificate is not necessary for dogs traveling to this state with their owners General Restrictions for less than 30 days. Dog owners with questions No one may: concerning requirements may call the Animal • Wantonly waste game or destroy any birds or Industry Board at 605.773.3321. animals protected by the laws of South Dakota. • Possess a loaded firearm while intoxicated. • Recklessly discharge a firearm or bow and arrow. gfp.sd.gov 41 2018 GENERAL LAWS • Use a firearm in the Fort Meade Recreation regulations. See “Federal Laws for Migratory Area South Unit and the signed portion of the Game Birds” for more information. North Unit. • Take game, except by shooting it with a legal Harassment weapon or by birds trained in falconry. No person may intentionally interfere with other • Hunt game birds with a firearm other than a persons lawfully engaged in taking or attempting shotgun. Turkeys are classified as big game. to take game or fish, engage in activity specifically • Hunt game birds with a shotgun capable of intended to harass or prevent the lawful taking of being operated as a full automatic. game or fish or scare or disturb game with specific • Use rifles and handguns, including .22 caliber intent to prevent its lawful taking. rimfire firearms, to hunt upland game birds. Drones may not be used to aid in the taking of They may be used for hunting other small game. game animals such as squirrels and rabbits. • Hunt with air guns, EXCEPT air guns may be Hunting Guides on Public Lands used by licensed hunters to take cottontail No person, acting as a hunting guide, may guide rabbit, tree squirrel, coyote, fox, skunk, gopher, any hunting activity on state-owned or managed ground squirrel, chipmunk, jackrabbit, marmot, Game Production Areas, state parks, recreation porcupine, crow and prairie dog; air guns must areas and lakeside use areas, federal land leased be factory-rated to produce a muzzle velocity or under agreement to GFP and posted as a Game of at least 1,000 feet per second; only hunting Production Area and managed for wildlife purposes pellets are permitted. or private land leased or under agreement to GFP • Steal, damage or destroy someone else’s trap, for the purpose of providing public access, or on snare or animal in a trap. highways or other rights-of-way within this state that otherwise meet the requirements except that Gifting Wildlife and Fish a hunting guide or employees of a hunting guide For the purpose of this rule, gift means the may guide a hunting activity on the road rights-of- voluntary transfer of game/fish from any person to way immediately adjacent to property owned or another without fee or consideration. A licensee leased by the hunting guide. may gift game and fish or any part of game and A hunting guide is defined as a person fish, to another person if each of the following who holds himself or herself out to the public conditions is met: as a hunting guide and for compensation or • The game/fish was lawfully taken, caught or remuneration, directs or provides services to any killed; and person for the purpose of hunting any wild animals. • The number or amount of game/fish gifted Federal agencies have regulations pertaining does not place the recipient in violation of any to guiding and outfitting in addition to those listed season, daily or possession limit established here. Contact the respective agency for more for the species of game/fish being gifted. information. • If gifting to an unlicensed person the licensee shall gift the game/fish at the domicile of the Inspection recipient. Any person who possesses any game bird, • A wildlife processing facility and a person animal, or fish shall, upon the request of any who deposits lawfully taken game with the person authorized to enforce the game and fish facility for processing may agree upon a laws of the state, permit the inspection and count period of time following which the facility may of the birds, animals, or fish. Any motor vehicle, consider the game, except a migratory bird, pickup camper, camper, or any conveyance to be abandoned by the person. With the attached thereto, may be stopped for such an exception of a migratory bird, the facility may inspection and count by any uniformed law distribute abandoned game to any non-profit enforcement officer. organization or any charitable organization that distributes food or other services to individuals Motor Vehicle Restrictions in need. At no time may any abandoned game No person may operate motor-propelled be considered the property of the wildlife vehicles on: processing facility. • Lands owned, leased or controlled by GFP • Gifting of waterfowl must comply with federal except on designated roads and parking areas;

42 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 GENERAL LAWS and waters that are open to motorized boats snowmobiles or ATV’s/UTV’s on their own land (see boating restrictions). or on land they lease, but does apply to use of • Federal Waterfowl Production Areas, except on motorcycles. Additionally, this restriction does designated parking areas. not apply to unaccompanied persons at least 18 • Fort Pierre National Grasslands except on years of age hunting coyotes from a stationary designated roads and trails. snowmobile on their own land or on land they • U.S. Forest Service roads posted against lease. No more than one person may be aboard travel in the Black Hills. the snowmobile while coyotes are being hunted, • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land except on and when shooting at coyotes, the snowmobile established roads. must be stationary. The restrictions for carrying • On all waters of the Waubay National Wildlife firearms do not apply to any person who is carrying Refuge and Waubay State Game Refuge in a pistol and who possesses a permit to carry a Day County, except for designated trails. concealed pistol. • Private land without permission from the owner No person may send or receive a message by or lessee. radio, cellular telephone or other electronic form of No person who is in or on a motor vehicle, communications while in or on a motor vehicle for except those hunters with Disabled Hunter Permits, the purpose of hunting big game, small game or may discharge a firearm, crossbow or a bow migratory waterfowl. and arrow at any wild animal except, coyotes, Hunters planning to use U.S. Forest Service or jackrabbits, rodents, skunks, badgers, raccoons National Grassland public lands should contact the and red and grey fox. Forest Service or Grasslands office for details on No person may allow a firearm to protrude travel restrictions. from a motor vehicle or a conveyance attached to it while the vehicle is on a public road during a Party Hunting Daily Limits hunting season. However, a firearm may protrude Two or more legally licensed hunters who from a motor vehicle when shooting at, coyotes, mutually agree to hunt small game as a party and jackrabbits, rodents, skunks, badgers, raccoons who maintain visual and unaided vocal contact and red and grey fox. may take more than one daily limit of small game. NOTE: Trespass laws apply and landowner However, the total number of small game taken by permission is necessary to shoot from a road at the party may not exceed the aggregate daily limit these species that are on private land. for all members of the party who are licensed to No person may use a motor vehicle to chase, take and possess small game. harass, intercept, pursue or disturb big game, small This does not apply to anyone who hunts small game or migratory birds. game in more than one party in one day. No person may use any aircraft, manned or This does not apply to any Big Game License unmanned (drone), to hunt, take, concentrate, rally or any tag issued as a part of a hunting license or locate any game. nor does this section apply to hunting of migratory No person may use a snowmobile to chase, birds. harass or disturb any wild animal. Protected Animals No person may use an amphibious or all-terrain The following mammals are on the state and/or vehicle to hunt or shoot at waterfowl unless the federal threatened or endangered species lists and vehicle is at rest or being used as part of a fixed are protected: wolf, swift fox, black-footed ferret hunting blind. and river otter. No person may kill nongame birds No person may use a motor vehicle on SD except English (house) sparrows, rock pigeons, School and Public Lands for the purpose of Eurasian collared-doves and European starlings. hunting, fishing or trapping. The restriction does not Blackbirds, grackles, crows and magpies may be apply to roads, trails or parking areas designated killed when doing or about to do depredation. and signed by GFP. No one may possess a firearm while riding Non-toxic Shot on or operating a snowmobile, motorcycle or The use of non-toxic shot is required for all off-road vehicle (ATV or UTV) unless the firearm small game/waterfowl hunting on all state game is unloaded and completely enclosed in a carrying production areas, lake and fishing access areas, case. This does not apply to persons using state park system areas, U.S. Army Corps of

gfp.sd.gov 43 2018 GENERAL LAWS Engineers land, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Wildlife permitted in established campgrounds. Camping Production Areas managed by GFP, U.S. Fish and is also prohibited on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges, and U.S. Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA’s). Campfires Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production are allowed only at designated campsites and in Areas. Lead shot may not be possessed while approved fireplaces, stoves or grills on GFP lands. hunting waterfowl/small game on these areas. GFP Campfires are not allowed on U.S. Fish and Wildlife encourages hunters to use non-toxic shot for all Service Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA’s). hunting, but it is not required on U.S. Forest Service No person may use a motor vehicle for the National Grasslands, SD School and Public Lands purposes of hunting, fishing or trapping on any land or on most GFP-managed and leased property under the control of SD School and Public Lands, designated as Walk-In Areas and CREP when except for roads, trails or parking areas designated hunting small game such as pheasants, grouse or and signed by GFP. Hunting is not permitted in mourning doves. standing crops. Those hunting ducks, geese, coots, tundra swan, Only persons using a state park, state recreation Sandhill cranes or snipe may not possess lead shot area, state nature area or state lakeside use area and must use a federally approved non-toxic shot. for lawful hunting, trapping, fishing, snowmobiling, Approved non-toxic shot includes steel (iron) boating or camping may enter, use, or occupy any of shot, bismuth-tin, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix, the above areas from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. May 1 - Sept. tungsten-iron-fluoropolymer and any combination of 30 and from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. from Oct. 1 - Apr. 30. tungsten-iron-nickel-tin-copper-bismuth. See also 50 Only persons engaged in lawful hunting, CFR 20.21(j)(1) for the complete listing of federally trapping, fishing or boating may enter, use, or approved non-toxic shot types. occupy any of the following areas from 11 p.m. Coated lead shot does NOT qualify as non- to 6 a.m. year-round: Public Shooting Areas, toxic shot. Game Production Areas, Wildlife Refuges, Lake Turkeys are classified as big game and can be and Fishing Access Areas, Public Water Access hunted with lead shot. Areas and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl In addition, target shooting with shotguns using Production Areas (WPA’s) operated by the U.S. Fish lead shot is prohibited on the following state public and Wildlife Service. lands: State Game Production Areas, lake and A person hunting in a leased controlled waterfowl hunting area may hunt only in designated hunting fishing access areas, public water access areas, areas. Hunting in leased shooting zones where state park system areas and U.S. Army Corps blinds have been constructed by GFP must only of Engineers Wildlife Production Areas and U.S. occure from the constructed blinds. Hunting outside Bureau of Reclamation lands managed by GFP. of or between adjacent blinds is prohibited. Refer to Tom Roster’s Non-toxic Shot Lethality Table on page 48. No person may target shoot on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production Areas National Parks, Monuments, Memorials (WPA’s). The taking of wildlife is prohibited in Badlands The Fort Pierre National Grasslands prohibits National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, trap shooting. USFS asks hunters to use non-toxic Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Wind shot for small game hunting. Cave National Park. No person may hunt, trap Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows are or discharge a firearm within the boundaries of prohibited in all state parks, state recreation areas, these units. state nature areas and state lakeside use areas If an animal is wounded outside the boundaries of with the following exceptions: one of these units and enters within the boundaries, • Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows are the hunter should immediately notify a Park Ranger permitted on designated rifle and archery before tracking or retrieving the animal. ranges the year around; • Hunters licensed for Custer State Park Public Land and Park Restrictions hunting seasons may have uncased firearms, No person may enter, use or occupy lands crossbows and bows in Custer State Park owned or leased by GFP if it interferes with the during the season for which they are licensed; management of the area, the posted purpose for • Only shotguns using shot shells, muzzleloading which the land was acquired or if the lands are shotguns, crossbows and bow and arrow posted against such entry or use. Camping is only are permitted in Custer State Park during the

44 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 GENERAL LAWS Custer State Park spring turkey season; • From Oct. 1 - Jan. 31, inclusive, deer • Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows are hunting with a firearm, crossbow, or a permitted from Sept. 1 - May 21, inclusive, bow is permitted in all state parks, state within the Sheps Canyon Lakeside Use Area; recreation areas and state nature areas • From Oct. 1 - April 30, inclusive, uncased during established hunting seasons firearms, crossbows and bows are authorized according to the provisions and restrictions for licensed hunters in all state parks, state set forth in this section, except for Farm recreation areas, nature areas and lakeside Island Recreation Area and LaFramboise use areas during established hunting seasons Island Nature Area where archery deer with the following restrictions: hunting is allowed to Dec. 31; • Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows • A person who possesses a valid turkey are prohibited year around in all established license for Unit PST-48 is permitted campgrounds, designated day use to have an uncased shotgun using areas, and at Beaver Creek Nature Area, shot shells, a crossbow, a bow, or Lake Herman State Park, Spring Creek a muzzleloading shotgun within the Recreation Area, Spirit Mound Historic boundary of Sica Hollow State Park to the Prairie, Bear Butte State Park east of eighth day before Memorial Day, inclusive. Hwy 79, Oahe Downstream Recreation Uncased .22 caliber rimfire firearms are Area except for a hunter who possesses prohibited on all state park and recreation area a valid deer license for Unit WRD-58D or lands and on the George S. Mickelson Trail a valid turkey license for Unit PST-58B; the year around. However, uncased .22 caliber and in Good Earth State Park and Adams rimfire firearms are permitted within North Homestead and Nature Preserve except Point Recreation Area and Oahe Downstream for a resident hunter who possesses a Recreation Area the year around on rifle ranges valid archery spring turkey or archery deer designated by the GFP. license and an access permit; The discharge of firearms or bows on or • Only bows are permitted in Big Sioux State across the George S. Mickelson Trail rights-of- Recreation Area, the Forest Drive Unit of way is prohibited Richmond Lake State Recreation Area, Uncased firearms are prohibited on: Palisades State Park, LaFramboise Island, • The East Pelican Lake Access Area in Chief White Crane, Clay County Recreation Codington Co. Area and the mouth of Spearfish Canyon; • That portion of the Beilage Game Production • Only shotguns using shot shells, crossbows Area north of Christensen Drive located in and bows are permitted in West Whitlock Sec. 24 and 25, T6N, R2E, in Lawrence Co. State Recreation Area, West Pickerel • Hazel’s Haven Fishing Access Area in Moody Co. Recreation Area, Mina Recreation Area, • That portion of the Marcotte Game Production Okobojo Recreation Area, Farm Island Area in Sec. 16, T5N, R5E, in Meade Co. Recreation Area, Angostura Recreation • Kelley’s Cove Fishing Access Area in Yankton Area, Cow Creek State Recreation Area Co. and those portions of North Point State • The Hwy 38/James River Fishing Access Area Recreation Area which are situated to the in Davison Co. west of 381st Street and north of 297th • The New Underwood Lake Access Area in Ave., and situated west of 382nd Ave. and Pennington Co. except any licensed hunter north of 297th Street, and situated south of while lawfully engaged in hunting. 297th Street and west of Prairie Dog Bay; • The Rollings Game Production Area in Lincoln • Only shotguns using shot shells, crossbows Co. except any licensed hunter, using a and bows for the wild turkey hunting shotgun with shot shells only, while hunting seasons and bows for archery deer and small game or wild turkey and persons using archery wild turkey hunting seasons are the shooting range when open. permitted in that portion of Newton Hills • The Lake Henry Fishing Access Area in Bon State Park which is situated to the west Homme County except any licensed hunter, of County Road 135 and north of County using a shotgun with shot shells only, while Road 140; hunting small game or turkey.

gfp.sd.gov 45 2018 GENERAL LAWS 2018 GENERAL LAWS • Only shotguns using shot shells, crossbows, public areas, road closures and recreation fees and bow and arrow are permitted on lands that might apply in certain areas. owned and operated by the Otter Tail Power Railroad Rights-of-Way Company and leased as a Game Production Railroad rights-of-way are not considered to be Area in Grant County and the Lake Andes units the same as road rights-of-way for purposes of Game Production Areas in Charles Mix County. hunting. Some rail lines expressly prohibit hunting Centerfire rifles are prohibited on the on their owned or leased railroad rights-of-way. Lechtenberg Game Production Area in Hand Those routes include: County and on the Cottonwood Lake Hatchery Game Bird Refuge in Spink County. Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad No person may use any firearm on the Fort • Belle Fourche to Nebraska border at Wayside Meade Recreation Area South Unit and the signed following Hwy 34 and 79 portion of the North Unit. • Rapid City to South Dakota border at Elkton No person may discharge a weapon across following Hwy 14 or from a National Forest System road or into a • Blunt to Onida following Hwy 83 cave or within 150 yards of a residence, building, • Huron to Yale north of Hwy 14 campsite or recreation area (Pactola, Sheridan, • All crossings are marked RCP&E Deerfield, etc.). Burlington Northern/Santa Fe NOTE: A person who possesses a valid • White Butte - Mobridge - Aberdeen - Milbank concealed pistol permit may carry a concealed - Ortonville pistol at any time. • Aberdeen - Mitchell - Yankton - Vermillion - No person may ride or allow horses on land Elk Point - North Sioux City owned, leased or controlled by GFP except on • Mitchell - Parker - Canton designated bridle trails or equestrian areas. During • Canton - Sioux Falls - Colton - Wentworth - established seasons, licensed deer hunters may Madison use horses on state Game Production Areas • Sioux Falls - Garretson - Sherman along the Missouri River, and licensed deer and • Dewey - Edgemont - Provo - Ardmore elk hunters or anyone assisting in the removal of Dakota-Southern - (not open during the legally tagged deer and elk may use horses on the resident-only pheasant season) No big game Battle Mountain/Friendshuh GPA in Fall River and hunting allowed (firearm or archery) on all Custer counties. Horses are prohibited on U.S. Dakota Southern. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production • Mitchell to U.S. Hwy 83 (West of Vivian) - Areas (WPA’s) and National Wildlife Refuges. closed to hunting. A person may not destroy, damage or remove a • U.S. Hwy 83 to Kadoka - open to small game living or dead tree, shrub or vegetation; disturb any hunting. earth, rocks, minerals, natural formations or cultural • Napa (Yankton County Road 211) to the City resources; or destroy, damage or remove skulls of Ravinia - open to small game hunting. or other parts of animal carcass located on lands Other rail lines exercise varying degrees owned or leased by GFP without written permission of control over the uses of the rail lines they from the secretary or a designated agent. operate, including restrictions on public hunting. Shed antler hunting is allowed on GFP Abandoned rail lines may have reverted to owned lands, including state parks, recreation private ownership to the adjoining landowner. areas and Game Production Areas. However, Unless permission has been obtained from the permission from the landowner is required for rail line operating the particular stretch of track or shed hunting on Walk-In Areas, CREP, CHAP, or permission has been obtained from the adjoining other privately-owned lands leased by GFP for landowner of property in the case of abandoned public hunting. Regulations differ for lands owned rail lines, railroad rights-of-way should not be by other state or federal agencies. Contact the considered open for hunting. respective agency for more information. If you are planning a trip for hunting or other Road-Killed Big Game recreation on National Forest and Grasslands An unfortunate by-product of wild free-ranging in South Dakota please contact a U.S. Forest big game animals is vehicle-wildlife accidents. If Service Office for information on use of these an accident occurs between a motor vehicle and a deer or other big game, the accident must be

46 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook 2018 GENERAL LAWS reported to law enforcement if there is significant If a person is convicted of knowingly damage to the vehicle. In accordance with state trespassing, the person’s applicable hunting or law, before any individual can possess a big game trapping privilege shall be revoked for one year. animal killed by a motor vehicle that individual Unarmed Retrieval must obtain authorization from a GFP conservation Hunters may retrieve lawfully taken small game officer prior to taking possession. Taking carcasses without permission from private or public land or any part of a big game animal, including the (except National Wildlife Refuges closed to such antlers, without authorization is illegal. entry) if they are unarmed and retrieve on foot. Sale/Use of Wildlife Permission is needed to retrieve big game, No person may sell or barter game birds or including turkeys. animals except for skin, head or bone-hard antlers To be lawfully taken from road rights-of-way, the of big game; skin or plumage of pheasants, sharp- hunter must be within the rights-of-way boundaries tailed grouse, prairie chickens or grey partridge; when shooting and the small game must originate turkey feathers; skins of cottontail rabbit, fox from or be flying over the road rights-of-way. squirrel, grey squirrel and red squirrel that have See the “Hunting on Public Road Rights-of- been lawfully taken by a licensed hunter; and legal Way” section. furbearers. Walk-In Area/CREP Restrictions No person may sell or offer for sale antlers in No one may enter, use or occupy lands leased the velvet except those legally taken during a big by GFP under the state Walk-In Area program for game season that have been tagged by a GFP any purpose other than hunting unless they have conservation officer. permission from the landowner or any lessee of No person may wantonly waste game. the land other than GFP. A person may enter, use, Trespass or occupy lands leased by GFP under the state No person may hunt or trap any species of Walk-In Area program for purposes of hunting game, including unprotected species, on private under the following conditions: land without permission from the owner or lessee • The person moves or travels only on foot. except in that part of the Black Hills Fire Protection • The conditions under which a person may District south of Interstate 90. In that area, no enter, use, or occupy lands leased by GFP person may enter private land to hunt if the land is apply whether or not the state has jurisdiction posted or if told by the owner or lessee not to do to impose its hunting regulations on the person so. The Black Hills Forest Fire Protection District is seeking to enter, use, or occupy the land. as follows: Commencing at a point on the WY-SD • Landowner permission is required to trap on state line at the junction of I-90 at the state line; these areas. then east and southeast along I-90 via Rapid City to the intersection of U.S. Hwy 16B; then south and Youth Accompaniment southwest along U.S. Hwy 16B to the intersection A parent, guardian or responsible adult (at least of SD Hwy 79; then south along SD Hwy 79 to 18 years old) must accompany youth under age the intersection of U.S. Hwy 18; then south along 16 (under 18 for Youth Pheasant Season) while U.S. Hwy 18 to the Cheyenne River; then west hunting. A parent, guardian or responsible adult (at and northwest along the Cheyenne River to the least 18 years old) must accompany all apprentice WY-SD state line; then north along said state line to deer season licensees. the place of beginning. The Black Hills Forest Fire Protection District does not include any area within the limits of any municipality.

Be Respectful of Road Conditions Driving roads during wet weather and leaving the traveled road in bad condition may hinder relationships between hunters and landowners. Landowners have expressed their concern about road conditions during the hunting seasons. When roads are traveled during wet periods ruts are developed and once frozen, can be extremely difficult to drive farm equipment down to access crop fields. Please respect these important roads. If you notice your vehicle leaving ruts, make the right decision; back out of the soft area, park and walk to your desired location.

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48 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook Help keep our sloughs, lakes and reservoirs healthy by checking your boats, blinds and decoys for aquatic invasive species (AIS) after every hunt.

Boat plugs must be removed and left out from the time you pull your boat out of the water and trailers and blinds must be free of visible weeds.

Stay educated, stay informed and help current and future generations slow the spread of AIS in our great state. You can also visit SDLEASTWANTED.COM at any time to learn more about what you can do! Photo © Jim Thompson Jr. © Jim Thompson Photo

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Game, Fish gfp.sd.gov& Parks 49 S.D. SPORTSMEN AGAINST HUNGER The South Dakota Sportsmen Against Hunger online and paper applications for hunting licenses. (SAH) program was established in 1993 to provide Individuals may also use the “Donate” link on the hunters with an easier way to share their success SAH website or make out checks or money orders with those who are not as fortunate. South Dakota to “South Dakota Sportsmen Against Hunger” and sportsmen and women can continue to make a send them to South Dakota Sportsmen Against difference by sharing the meat from big-game and Hunger, P.O. Box 1172, Pierre, SD 57501. Call game birds. Hunters may help offset costs of this 1.800.456.2758 or visit feedtheneedsd.com to learn program by making tax-deductible cash donations more about the program. to SAH through use a check-off provision on the CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal Mandatory samples will be collected from disease of the central nervous system found in hunters during all Custer State Park deer and elk both captive and free-roaming deer and elk. GFP hunting seasons. Additional information will be has been conducting surveillance for CWD since shared with the license to all successful applicants. 1997 in an effort to determine disease presence There is no scientific evidence that CWD is and prevalence across the state. naturally transmitted to humans or domestic livestock. A hunter who takes a few basic Surveillance for 2018 precautions can further minimize human health Voluntary samples will be accepted from concerns. Hunters should avoid eating meat from hunters during the West River and Black Hills deer and elk that look sick or that test positive deer hunting seasons. One collection station will for CWD. Hunters are encouraged to apply be placed at the Rapid City Regional Office for for licenses and hunt in these units, but should hunters who would like to get their harvested deer consider having the deer or elk tested for CWD tested for CWD from the following hunting units: before consuming if the animal was harvested WRD-02A (Pennington and Meade counties), from an area known to have CWD-positive WRD-15B (Butte County), WRD-20A (Corson animals. Sampling and testing procedures are not County), WRD-21A and WRD-21B (Custer County) designed or intended to provide quality assurance and WRD-27A, WRD-27B, WRD-27L (Fall River for individual animals. Hunters who provide the County), WRD-49A (Meade County), WRD-53A necessary information with voluntary samples will (Northern Perkins County) and all Black Hills deer be notified by mail of test results. For additional units. In addition, elk hunters within the Black Hills information on the CWD surveillance program, will receive a letter in the mail with instructions on contact the GFP Regional Office in Rapid City at how to submit a sample. All elk hunting units will be 605.394.2391 or visit gfp.sd.gov/wildlife/diseases. voluntarily tested for CWD. PLAGUE IN WILDLIFE Plague is an infectious disease of humans and Dewey, Fall River, Jackson, Lyman, Mellette, wildlife caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Pennington, Shannon and Stanley counties. It is generally contracted through the bite of a Plague likely occurs in most counties west of flea carrying the bacterium or less commonly by the Missouri River. Presence of plague does not handling or ingesting meat from an animal infected indicate an outbreak is occurring. with the disease. Typically rodents, carnivores Plague can cause severe illness or death. and rabbits are species most likely to become Antibiotic treatment is effective against plague if infected. Species with high mortality rates include the infected person is treated promptly. There have cats (wild and domestic), marmots, prairie dogs, been NO documented human cases of plague in rabbits, squirrels and wood rats. Dogs (wild and South Dakota. Human patients generally have a domestic), most mustelids (skunks, weasels, etc.) history of exposure in rural areas. Avoid fleas and and some species of rodents have high resistance interacting with pets that may have had exposure to the disease. Free-roaming pets that interact with to plague. For more information about plague infected wild animal populations can also carry in humans visit the Department of Health (doh. plague-infected fleas. sd.gov/) or Centers for Disease Control websites From 1994-2012, plague-positive animal or flea (cdc.gov). samples have been taken from Bennett, Custer,

50 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook S.D. SPORTSMEN AGAINST HUNGER 2018 PUBLIC HUNTING AREAS Please remember some of these lands are privately owned and your actions while hunting them can determine if they are open to public hunting in the future. Game Production Areas (GPA) Elk Hunting Access Program (EHAP) Game Production Areas are public lands owned EHAP was developed to help address by the State of South Dakota and managed by the depredation complaints on private land and to Department of Game, Fish and Parks for the benefit increase hunter success. EHAP areas are lands of all wildlife species. These lands are purchased owned by private individuals that are leased for with money from the sale of hunting licenses and public elk hunting access by the South Dakota Federal Aid money provided by a tax on hunting Department of Game, Fish and Parks. Money equipment sales. These areas are open to public from the sale of hunting licenses is used to pay CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE hunting, fishing, and trapping. South Dakota has the leases. There is no driving on these areas. approximately 730 Game Production Areas, totaling Permission is needed to hunt these areas more than 281,000 acres. The property taxes are and can be received by directly contacting the paid annually by GFP. landowner. Contact the GFP office in Rapid City at Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl and small 605.394.2391 to learn how to access these areas. game. Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program Walk-In Areas (WIA) (CREP) Walk-In Areas are lands owned by private Lands in CREP are open year round to public individuals as working farms and ranches that are hunting and fishing access. Landowner permission leased for public hunting access only by the South is required for trapping. CREP lands are owned by Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks. private individuals who have enrolled them in the Landowner permission is required for fishing and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and signed trapping. Money from the sale of hunting licenses a lease agreement with South Dakota Department and Federal Aid money from a tax on hunting of Game, Fish and Parks to provide public hunting equipment sales is used to pay the leases. No and fishing access and target habitat in the James permission is needed to hunt these areas and River Watershed. These lands were enrolled in the there is no driving on these areas except on program starting at various times between 2010 designated trails which are marked with signs. and 2013 and will be in CREP for 10 to 15 years. There are over 1.2 million acres in the Walk-In Most of these areas have excellent wildlife habitat Area program. established. Over 80,000 acres of CREP will be Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl. open to public hunting this fall. Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl. Controlled Hunting Access Program (CHAP) CHAP areas are lands owned by private Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA) individuals as working farms and ranches that Waterfowl production areas are owned by the are leased for public hunting access only by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. These South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and areas open to public hunting and trapping and Parks. Money from the sale of hunting licenses and are managed for the production of waterfowl, but Federal Aid money from a tax on hunting equipment provide habitat for other wildlife as well. There sales is used to pay the leases. Permission is are 1,000 WPAs in South Dakota, totaling nearly needed to hunt these areas and can be received 150,000 acres. via self-serve check in boxes, on-line reservations, Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl and small or by directly contacting the landowner. Landowner game. permission is required for fishing and trapping. See the Public Hunting Atlas for more details.There is Other Public Areas no driving on these areas except on designated Game, Fish and Parks also manages Water trails which are marked with signs. Access Areas, State Game Refuges, State Game Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl. Bird Refuges, State Waterfowl Refuges, Lakeside Use Areas, State Recreation Areas and State Parks. These areas are regulated and may or may not provide public hunting. Other agencies with public hunting lands in South Dakota include the SD Office of School and Public Lands, U.S. Forest Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation.

gfp.sd.gov 51 2018 STATE GAME REFUGES GAME REFUGE - No hunting or trapping of any species. GAME BIRD REFUGE - No hunting of game birds, including waterfowl. Big game hunting and trapping are allowed. WATERFOWL REFUGE - No waterfowl hunting. Big game and small game hunting and trapping are allowed.

Brown County MISSOURI RIVER RESERVOIR REFUGES Renziehausen Slough - Game Bird Refuge Refuge boundaries are posted with signs. Missouri Brule County River refuges are shown in the Hunting Atlas. Jorgenson - Game Refuge Lake Oahe Clark County Blue Blanket Waterfowl Refuge Reid Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Swan Creek Waterfowl Refuge Antelope Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Latin Draw Waterfowl Refuge Whitlock Bay Waterfowl Refuge Day County Sutton Waterfowl Refuge Waubay - Game Bird Refuge Sutton Bottom Waterfowl Refuge Edmunds County Baker’s Gulch Waterfowl Refuge Scatterwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Mail Shack Waterfowl Refuge Faulk County Okobojo Creek Waterfowl Refuge Gerken - Game Bird Refuge Spring Creek Waterfowl Refuge Scatterwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Peoria Flats Waterfowl Refuge Grant County Oahe Dam Waterfowl Refuge Eye - Game Refuge Lake Sharpe Lake Albert - Waterfowl Refuge Oahe Dam Waterfowl Refuge Big Stone Power Plant - Waterfowl Refuge DeGrey Waterfowl Refuge Hand County Joe Creek Waterfowl Refuge Wall Lake - Game Bird Refuge Big Bend Dam Waterfowl Refuge Hughes County Lake Francis Case LaFramboise Island - Game Bird Refuge (No Chamberlain Waterfowl Refuge Firearms) Chamberlain North Waterfowl Refuge Big Bend Dam Waterfowl Refuge Hutchinson County Whetstone Waterfowl Refuge Silver Lake - Waterfowl Refuge White Swan Waterfowl Refuge Marshall County Fort Randall Dam Waterfowl Refuge White Lake - Game Bird Refuge Lake Lewis and Clark Perkins County Fort Randall Dam Tailwaters Reservoir Shadehill - Waterfowl Refuge Roberts County Refuges on Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe, Cottonwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge except those including Oahe Dam and Big Bend Bullhead Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Dam, are closed to waterfowl hunting from the Spink County opening day of the earliest waterfowl season Cottonwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge through the last day of the Canada goose season Cottonwood Hatchery - Game Bird Refuge and are open to duck hunting after that date if that season is still open. Yankton County All state waterfowl refuges are open during the Kelly’s Cove - Game Refuge Light Goose Conservation Order in the spring, except for Silver Lake and refuges that encompass Oahe Dam, Big Bend Dam and Fort Randall Dam. Waterfowl hunters should also read the section on “Boating Restrictions” in this handbook.

52 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook MAPS FOR HUNTERS The below maps are available to assist hunters when hunting and navigating public lands across South Dakota. For additional information on the maps listed below or to have any one of them mailed to you, contact the represented agency or view them online, if available.

South Dakota Hunting Atlas Grand River and Cedar River National This free booklet contains a series of detailed Grasslands maps showing private land in South Dakota that Color map of National Grasslands in has been leased for public hunting by GFP as northwestern South Dakota. Write: Dakota Prairie Walk-In Areas. The maps also show other public Grasslands, 240 West Century Ave., Bismarck, hunting areas. Maps are available at GFP offices, ND 58503; call 701.250.4443; or website at from the GFP website gfp.sd.gov, by email request nationalforeststore.com. Check with the Forest from [email protected], phone request from Service for cost and postage. 605.223.7660, or by writing Game, Fish and Parks Information Office, 20641 SD Hwy 1806, Fort Pierre, Custer National Forest SD 57532. Color map including Cave Hills, Slim Buttes, Long Pines and Short Pines in northwestern South Dakota Hunting Map for GPS South Dakota, as well as Custer National Forest SD Hunting Atlas Map information is available in Montana. Write: U.S. Forest Service, 1310 Main for download into GPS devices at: St., Billings, MT 59105; call 406.657.6200; or gfp.sd.gov/hunting-areas website at nationalforeststore.com. Check with the Forest Service for map cost and postage. South Dakota School and Public Lands Shows state school and public lands throughout BLM Surface Management Quads the state. Index is available online at Shows public land in extreme western and sdpubliclands.com or by calling Office of School northwestern South Dakota. Free index available. and Public Lands, 605.773.3303. There is a cost Write: Bureau of Land Management, Field Office, for each map. 310 Roundup Street, Belle Fourche, SD 57717; call 605.892.7000. Prices vary with size of the maps. Buffalo Gap National Grasslands Color map of the National Grasslands and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Lands Badlands National Park in southwestern South Information regarding land managed by the Dakota. Write: U.S. Forest Service, 125 North Main U.S. Bureau of Reclamation can be requested Street, Chadron, NE 69337; or call 308.432.0300. from: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Dakotas Area Check with the Forest Service for map cost and Office, Rapid City Field Office Room 101, 515 9th postage; or website at nationalforeststore.com. St., Rapid City, SD 57701; or call 605.394.9757.

Black Hills National Forest Missouri River Boating and Recreation Guide Color map of the Black Hills showing roads, Maps trails and public land ownership. Write: U.S. Forest Includes water area and government lands on Service, 1019 N. 5th St., Custer, SD 57730; call the mainstem reservoirs of the Missouri River. 605.673.9200; or website at nationalforeststore. Maps for lakes Lewis and Clark, Francis Case, com. Check with the Forest Service for map cost Sharpe and Oahe can be ordered from: Dept. and postage. To order a map using a credit card, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Omaha call 605.745.7020. District, Operations Division - CEMRO- OP-N, 106 Fort Pierre National Grasslands South 15th St., Omaha, NE 68102-1618; or call Color map of the National Grasslands 402.221.4139. Contact the Corps for map costs in central South Dakota. Write: U.S. Forest and postage. Service, 1020 N. Deadwood Ave., Ft. Pierre, SD 57532; call 605.224.5517; or visit the website at nationalforeststore.com. Check with the Forest Service for cost and postage.

gfp.sd.gov 53 DUCK IDENTIFICATION Identifying ducks in the field is important. It is necessary for hunters to be able to identify ducks by sex and species so bag limits are not exceeded. The following are the most common ducks waterfowl hunters will encounter in South Dakota’s marshes and fields. There are two views of male plumage.

Males molt in the summer and many resemble hens. Coloration gradually changes from hen-like to a blochy, partial coloration in early fall and finally to full winter plumage. Young of the year males also evolve through these stages.

Illustrations by Donald A Soderlund, Copyright South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department, Duck wing photos collected by Spencer Vaa, photographed by Gary Marrone.

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gfp.sd.gov 59 APPRENTICE DEER AND MENTORED BIG GAME APPRENTICE DEER AND MENTORED BIG GAME

RESIDENT

HuntSAFE Eligible for Big Game Eligible for Apprentice Age Required? Mentored Program? License?

Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A Yes No December 31)

12-15 Yes for Apprentice, Yes Yes (12 by December 31) No for Mentored

16-18 No No Yes (less than 18 on June 30)

Yes, but only if licensee has 18+ No No not held a South Dakota deer (18 or older on June 30) license in the past 10 years.

NONRESIDENT

HuntSAFE Eligible for Big Game Eligible for Apprentice Age Required? Mentored Program? License?

Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A No No December 31)

Yes, or copy of 12-15 hunting license issued No Yes (12 by December 31) by another state

16-18 No No Yes (less than 18 on June 30)

18+ No No No (18 or older on June 30)

To learn more about mentored big game hunting, visit gfp.sd.gov/userdocs/docs/mentored-hunt2018.pdf To learn more about apprentice deer hunting, visit gfp.sd.gov/userdocs/docs/2018DeerApp.pdf

60 2018 South Dakota Hunting Handbook APPRENTICE DEER AND MENTORED BIG GAME APPRENTICE DEER AND MENTORED BIG GAME Apprentice Deer Resident Big Game Mentored Program • The apprentice deer license is for an “any Deer, Antelope, Turkey antlerless deer” tag that is valid statewide. • Dependents of residents only.

• Apprentice deer licenses are available to • Mentored hunter who, at the time of going residents and nonresidents who will reach 12 hunting, is under 16 years old. years of age by December 31 and have not reached the age of 18 by June 30. • Mentored deer licensees are eligible for other deer licenses except the Apprentice Deer • Residents who are 18 years of age or older by License. June 30 can receive an apprentice license as long as they have not held any deer license in • Mentored hunter must be accompanied by South Dakota in the previous 10 years. an unarmed* parent, guardian or designated • Nonresidents who are older than 18 years of mentor within immediate control (arm’s length) age by June 30 are not eligible for apprentice and supervision of the adult. licenses. • Mentors must physically possess hunter • Youth hunters under age 16, are required to education certification and the license possess hunter education certification in the intended for their specific mentored hunter for field. the respective season.

Apprentice Deer Licensees (Ages 12-18) • Mentors who are not the parent or guardian of • A parent/guardian must accompany the youth the mentored hunter must also possess written when obtaining an Apprentice Deer License. permission from the parent or guardian of the hunter. • All apprentice deer licensees, must be accompanied (unaided visual and vocal • Adult can only accompany one mentored contact) by a parent, guardian or responsible hunter at a time. adult (at least 18 years old). • Hunting parties with mentored hunters cannot • Adult accompanying the apprentice deer exceed six persons. licensee is not required to possess hunter education certification.

• Apprentice deer licensees are eligible for other deer licenses except the mentored deer license.

• Adult (at least 18 years old) must be unarmed* unless the adult has a firearm Big Game License valid for the same geographic area and time of year as the apprentice deer licensees.

• Adult can accompany multiple apprentice deer hunters.

*Adult may carry and possess a pistol provided they have a valid concealed pistol permit.

gfp.sd.gov 61 YOUTH SMALL GAME AND JR. COMBINATION YOUTH SMALL GAME AND JR. COMBINATION

RESIDENT

Eligible Eligible for Youth Eligible for Junior HuntSAFE Age for Youth Small Game Mentored Combination Required? License? Program? 2 License?

Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A No Yes No December 31)

12-15 1, 4 Yes Yes Yes No (12 by December 31)

16-18 3, 4 (at the time of license No No No Yes purchase)

19+ No No No No

NONRESIDENT

Eligible for Eligible for Eligible for HuntSAFE Nonresident Youth Small Nonresident Age Required? Youth Small Game Mentored Adult Small Game License? Program? 2 Game License?

Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A No No No December 31)

Yes, or copy of 12-15 1, 4 hunting license issued Yes No No (12 by December 31) by another state

16-18 3, 4 (less than 18 on No No No Yes June 30)

19+ No No No Yes

1. If the youth acquires a Small Game License before turning 16, the license is valid through Jan. 31, 2019. 2. Mentors must be properly licensed for small game hunting and possess hunter education certification on their person while mentoring a youth who is small game hunting. Mentors who are not the parent or guardian of the mentored hunter must be a resident, at least 18 years old, and possess written permission from the parent or guardian of the hunter. 3. If the youth acquires a junior combination license before turning 19, the license is valid through Jan. 31, 2019. 4. If the youth has not reached age 18, they are eligible to hunt in the youth pheasant season.

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Youth Small Game Resident Small Game Mentored Program • A parent/guardian must accompany the • Dependents of residents only. youth when obtaining the Youth Small Game License or Jr. Combination License. • Mentored hunter who, at the time of going hunting, is under 16 years old. • Adult (at least 18) accompanying the youth hunter is not required to have hunter • Mentored hunter is not required to possess education certification. hunter education certification.

• Youth under 16 (under 18 for youth pheasant • The mentored hunter can hunt during the season) must be accompanied (unaided youth small game or other small game visual and vocal contact) by a parent, seasons but the mentored hunting rules for guardian or responsible adult (at least 18 accompaniment must be followed anytime a years old). mentored hunter is hunting: • A mentored youth hunter must be • Youth hunters under age 16, are required accompanied by an unarmed** parent, to possess hunter education certification in guardian or designated mentor within the field. immediate control (arm’s length) and supervision of the adult. • Game taken by a licensed youth hunter does not count toward the adult’s daily limit unless • Game taken by a mentored hunter counts party hunting for small game. toward the mentor’s daily limit.

• The combined number of animals taken • The combined number of animals taken or possessed by the youth hunter and or possessed by the mentored hunter and accompanying adult may not exceed the mentor may not exceed the number of the number of animals authorized under animals authorized under the license held licenses held by hunters. by the adult mentor.

• An adult can accompany multiple youth • Adult mentor can only accompany one small game or jr. combination hunters. mentored hunter at a time.

• A person who has not reached age 18 • Hunting parties with mentored hunters is eligible to hunt in the youth pheasant cannot exceed six persons. season.

**Adult may carry and possess a pistol provided they have a valid concealed pistol permit.

gfp.sd.gov 63 YOUTH WATERFOWL

RESIDENT

Eligible for Youth Eligible for Junior HuntSAFE Eligible for Age Waterfowl Mentored Combination Required? Youth License? Program? 2 License? Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A No Yes No December 31)

12-15 1, 4 Yes Yes Yes No (12 by December 31)

16-18 3, 4 (at the time of license No No No Yes purchase)

19+ No No No No

Resident hunters are required to possess the State Migratory Bird Certification. Those 16 and older are also required to possess the Federal Waterfowl Stamp.

NONRESIDENT

Eligible for Eligible for Eligible for HuntSAFE Nonresident Youth Waterfowl Nonresident Age Required? Youth Waterfowl Mentored Adult Waterfowl License? Program? 2 License? Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A No No No December 31)

Yes, or copy of Yes, valid for the 12-15 1, 4 hunting license issued two-day Youth No Yes (12 by December 31) by another state Waterfowl Season. 16-18 3, 4 (less than 18 on No No No Yes June 30)

19+ No No No Yes

1. Youth who have not reached age 16 by the first day of the youth waterfowl season may hunt waterfowl during the youth waterfowl season. 2. Mentors must be properly licensed for waterfowl hunting and possess hunter education certification on their person while mentoring a youth who is waterfowl hunting. Mentors who are not the parent or guardian of the mentored hunter must be a resident, at least 18 years old, and possess written permission from the parent or guardian of the hunter. 3. If the resident youth acquires a Small Game License before turning 16, the license is valid through Jan. 31, 2019. 4. If the resident youth acquires a Junior Combination License before turning 19, the license if valid through Jan. 31, 2019.

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Youth Waterfowl Resident Waterfowl Mentored Program • Nonresident Fall Waterfowl Licenses by • Dependents of residents only. application only. • Mentored hunter who, at the time of going • Youth hunters under age 16, are required to hunting, is under 16 years old. possess hunter education certification in the field. ◦◦Mentored hunter is not required to possess hunter education certification. • A parent/guardian must accompany the youth when obtaining the Youth Small Game • The mentored hunter can hunt during License or Jr. Combination License and State the youth waterfowl or regular waterfowl Migratory Bird Certification (residents only). seasons but the mentored hunting rules for accompaniment must be followed anytime a • Federal Waterfowl Stamp is required for any mentored hunter is hunting: hunters age 16 and older. ◦◦The mentor shall be properly licensed to • Youth under 16, must be accompanied hunt waterfowl in South Dakota. (unaided visual and vocal contact) by a parent, guardian or responsible adult (at least 18 ◦◦A mentored youth hunter must be years old). accompanied by an unarmed** parent, guardian or designated mentor within • The combined number of animals taken immediate control (arm’s length) and or possessed by the youth hunter and supervision of the adult. accompanying adult may not exceed the number of animals authorized under licenses ◦◦Game taken by a mentored hunter counts held by hunters waterfowl hunters. toward the mentor’s daily limit.

• Adult can accompany multiple youth waterfowl ◦◦The combined number of animals taken or hunters. possessed by the mentored hunter and the hunting mentor may not exceed the number of animals authorized under licenses held by the adult mentor.

◦◦Adult mentor can only accompany one mentored hunter at a time.

◦◦Hunting parties with mentored hunters cannot exceed six persons.

**Adult may carry and possess a pistol provided they have a valid concealed pistol permit.

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Sept 17 7:08-7:35 7:14-7:41 7:22-7:50 6:28-6:55 6:34-7:01 Nov 20 7:26-4:58 7:35-5:02 7:43-5:10 6:48-4:17 6:54-4:23 Jan 23 7:52-5:25 8:01-5:28 8:09-5:37 7:13-4:43 7:20-4:49

Sept 21 7:12-7:28 7:18-7:34 7:27-7:42 6:32-6:48 6:38-6:54 Nov 24 7:31-4:55 7:40-4:59 7:48-5:07 6:53-4:14 6:59-4:20 Jan 27 7:49-5:30 7:57-5:34 8:05-5:42 7:10-4:48 7:16-4:55

Sept 25 7:17-7:21 7:23-7:26 7:31-7:35 6:37-6:40 6:43-6:47 Nov 28 7:36-4:53 7:45-4:57 7:53-5:05 6:57-4:11 7:04-4:18 Jan 31 7:45-5:35 7:53-5:39 8:01-5:48 7:06-4:54 7:12-5:00

Sept 29 7:22-7:13 7:28-7:19 7:36-7:27 6:41-6:33 6:48-6:39 Dec 2 7:41-4:52 7:49-4:55 7:58-5:03 7:02-4:10 7:08-4:16 Feb 4 7:41-5:41 7:48-5:45 7:57-5:53 7:01-4:59 7:08-5:06

Oct 3 7:26-7:06 7:32-7:12 7:41-7:20 6:46-6:26 6:52-6:32 Dec 6 7:45-4:51 7:54-4:54 8:02-5:02 7:06-4:09 7:13-4:15 Feb 8 7:36-5:46 7:43-5:51 7:52-5:59 6:57-5:05 7:03-5:11

Oct 7 7:31-6:59 7:37-7:04 7:46-7:13 6:51-6:18 6:57-6:25 Dec 10 7:49-4:50 7:57-4:53 8:06-5:02 7:10-4:08 7:16-4:14 Feb 12 7:31-5:52 7:38-5:56 7:46-6:05 6:51-5:11 6:58-5:17

Oct 11 7:36-6:52 7:42-6:57 7:51-7:06 6:56-6:11 7:02-6:18 Dec 14 7:52-4:51 8:01-4:54 8:09-5:02 7:13-4:09 7:20-4:15 Feb 16 7:25-5:57 7:32-6:02 7:41-6:10 6:45-5:16 6:52-5:22

Oct 15 7:40-6:45 7:47-6:50 7:56-7:59 7:01-6:04 7:07-6:11 Dec 18 7:55-4:52 8:04-4:55 8:12-5:03 7:16-4:10 7:23-4:16 Feb 20 7:19-6:02 7:24-6:07 7:34-6:16 6:39-5:21 6:46-5:28 2018-2019 2018-2019 Season Table HUNTING SEASONS

Hunting Season September October November December January February Notes 1 Sept. 15 - Jan. 6 Grouse 1 Includes prairie chicken, Sage Grouse SEASON CLOSED sharp-tailed grouse, and Partridge Sept. 15 - Jan. 6 ruffed grouse. Pheasant Oct. 20 - Jan. 6 Youth only Oct. 6-10 2 Special permit required. Residents only Oct. 13-15 3 Quail Oct. 20 - Jan. 6 Season will close in the Cottontail Rabbit Sept. 1 - Feb. 28 Black Hills Fire Protection District earlier if the Tree Squirrel Sept. 1 - Feb. 28 harvest limit is reached. Sept 1 - Oct. 31 The crow hunting season is also open Mar. 1 - Apr. 30 Crow Open year-round Common Snipe Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 statewide outside of the Mourning Dove Sept. 1 - Nov. 9 Black Hills Fire Protection Youth only Sept. 22-23 Low Plains North Sept. 29 - Dec. 11 Low Plains Middle Sept. 29 - Dec. 11 Ducks Oct. 27 - Jan. 8 Low Plains South Units in Gregory County High Plains Oct. 13 - Jan. 17 have special season Unit 1 Sept. 1 - Dec. 16 dates. Unit 2 Nov. 5 - Feb. 17

Geese 2 Canada Bennett Co. Oct. 20 - Dec. 23 Jan. 12-20 5 Only antlerless deer tags Light Geese Sept. 29 - Jan. 11 are valid Dec. 8-16. White-fronted Geese Sept. 29 - Dec. 23 Sept. 22 - Nov. 18 6 Sandhill Crane Season dates listed in Tundra Swan Sept. 29 - Jan. 11 table are for any elk Fall Turkey Nov. 1 - Jan. 31 licenses. Visit Black Hills Mountain Lion 3 Dec. 26 - Mar. 31 http://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/bi g-game/elk/black- Antelope - Archery Aug. 18 - Sep. 28 Oct. 15-31 hills.aspx to view Black Sept. 29 - Oct. 14 Antelope - Rifle Hills elk application for unit- Archery Sept. 1 - Jan. 1 specific antlerless elk Muzzleloader Dec. 1 - Jan. 1 season dates. Mentored & Apprentice Sept. 8 - Jan. 1

Deer Black Hills Nov. 1-30 West River 4 Nov. 10-25 Dec. 8-16 5 East River Nov. 17 - Dec. 2 Dec. 8-16 5 Elk - Black Hills Archery: Sept. 1-30 Rifle: Oct. 1-31 6

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1 Includes prairie chicken, Hunting Season September October November December January February sharp-tailedNotes grouse, and 1 Sept. 15 - Jan. 6 ruffed grouse. Grouse 1 Includes prairie chicken, SEASON CLOSED Sage Grouse sharp-tailed2 Special permit grouse, required. and Partridge Sept. 15 - Jan. 6 ruffed grouse. 3 Pheasant Oct. 20 - Jan. 6 Season will close in the Black Hills Fire Protection Oct. 6-10 2 Youth only DistrictSpecial earlier permit if the required. harvest Residents only Oct. 13-15 limit is reached. Open 3 Quail Oct. 20 - Jan. 6 year-roundSeason will statewide close outsidein the of the Black Hills Fire Cottontail Rabbit Sept. 1 - Feb. 28 Black Hills Fire Protection DistrictProtection earlier Area. if the Tree Squirrel Sept. 1 - Feb. 28 harvest limit is reached. Crow Sept 1 - Oct. 31 The crow hunting season is also open Mar. 1 - Apr. 30 4 Units in Gregory County Openhave special year-round season dates. Common Snipe Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 statewide outside of the Mourning Dove Sept. 1 - Nov. 9 Black5 Only antlerlessHills Fire deer Protection tags Youth only Sept. 22-23 are valid Dec. 8-16. Low Plains North Sept. 29 - Dec. 11 6 Season dates listed in table Low Plains Middle Sept. 29 - Dec. 11 are for any elk licenses. Ducks Oct. 27 - Jan. 8 Low Plains South VisitUnits gfp.sd.gov/elk in Gregory to County view High Plains Oct. 13 - Jan. 17 Black Hills elk application for haveunit-specific special antlerless season elk Sept. 1 - Dec. 16 Unit 1 dates.season dates. Unit 2 Nov. 5 - Feb. 17

Geese 2 Canada Bennett Co. Oct. 20 - Dec. 23 Jan. 12-20 5 Only antlerless deer tags Light Geese Sept. 29 - Jan. 11 are valid Dec. 8-16. White-fronted Geese Sept. 29 - Dec. 23 Sept. 22 - Nov. 18 6 Sandhill Crane Season dates listed in Tundra Swan Sept. 29 - Jan. 11 table are for any elk Fall Turkey Nov. 1 - Jan. 31 licenses. Visit Black Hills Mountain Lion 3 Dec. 26 - Mar. 31 http://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/bi g-game/elk/black- Antelope - Archery Aug. 18 - Sep. 28 Oct. 15-31 hills.aspx to view Black Sept. 29 - Oct. 14 Antelope - Rifle Hills elk application for unit- Archery Sept. 1 - Jan. 1 specific antlerless elk Muzzleloader Dec. 1 - Jan. 1 season dates. Mentored & Apprentice Sept. 8 - Jan. 1

Deer Black Hills Nov. 1-30 West River 4 Nov. 10-25 Dec. 8-16 5 East River Nov. 17 - Dec. 2 Dec. 8-16 5 Elk - Black Hills Archery: Sept. 1-30 Rifle: Oct. 1-31 6

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