SOUTH DAKOTA HUNTING AND TRAPPING HANDBOOK 2019 second century habitat program

Working Lands Program The focus of the program is to provide a working lands habitat alternative to cropping marginal land. Participants agree to establish grass and forbs on cropland for 5 years and in return receive free seed and a one-time payment of $150 per acre at the beginning of the contract. No haying or grazing is allowed until after August 1 of the second growing season. Between August 1 and March 1, haying is allowed every two years or on 1/2 of the enrolled acres each year; grazing is allowed annually.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Who administers the agreements for the Second Century Habitat working lands program? Participants who enroll in this habitat program will be executing an agreement with the Second Century Habitat Fund, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to wildlife habitat. Incentive payments will be provided to participating landowners from the Second Century Habitat Fund.

2. How many acres can be enrolled? Minimum size of an individual planting must be 10 acres. The maximum acres each participant can enroll in the program is 160 acres.

3. What acres are eligible to be enrolled in the program? The focus of this program is to enroll marginal cropland such as saline and moist soils, field edges, other less productive soil types or areas producers want to manage as wildlife habitat.

4. How do participants receive the free seed? Upon execution of the agreement, seed will be shipped directly to participating producers at no cost. Seed mixes will consist of grasses and forbs that provide good ground nesting bird habitat and forage for livestock. OUTH DAKOTA 5. Will the land be open to public hunting access? S No. Hunting access to land in the Second Century Habitat Program will be by landowner permission only and it will not be shown in the Public Hunting Atlas. If the participant would like to allow public hunting access, they can contact SD Game, Fish & Parks and place it in the Walk-In Area or the Controlled Hunting Access Program. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS Game, Fish PROGRAM AND OTHERS, VISIT OUR & Parks WEBSITE: gfp.sd.gov/habitat-approaches contact us 2019 contents

GENERAL LICENSE INFORMATION BIG GAME GENERAL INFORMATION: 605.223.7660 License Requirements...... 7 Big Game Seasons...... 33 TTY: 605.223.7684, EMAIL: [email protected] 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 Aberdeen: 605.626.2391 Pierre: 605.773.3387 Ring-Necked Pheasant...... 16 Non-toxic Shot Table...... 48 5850 E. U.S. Hwy 12 523 E. Capitol Ave. Youth Ring-Necked Pheasant...... 16 OTHER RESOURCES Resident-Only Ring-Necked Pheasant...... 16 Chamberlain: 605.734.4530 Rapid City: 605.394.2391 Chronic Wasting Disease...... 49, 50 Prairie Chicken and Sharp-Tailed Grouse...... 17 S.D. Sportsmen Against Hunger...... 50 1550 E. King Ave. 4130 Adventure Trail Gray Partridge and Chukar...... 17 Plague in Wildlife...... 50 Quail...... 17 Ft. Pierre: 605.223.7700 Sioux Falls: 605.362.2700 Public Hunting Areas...... 51 WATERFOWL State Game Refuges...... 52 20641 SD Hwy 1806 4500 S. Oxbow Ave. Duck...... 18 Maps for Hunters...... 53 Canada Goose...... 19 Huron: 605.353.7145 Watertown: 605.882.5200 DUCK IDENTIFICATION...... 54 Youth Waterfowl...... 20 895 3rd Street SW 400 West Kemp White-Fronted Goose...... 20 MENTORED AND YOUTH HUNTING..... 60

Mobridge: 605.845.7814 Webster: 605.345.3381 Light Goose...... 20 SUNRISE/SUNSET SCHEDULE...... 69 Federal Laws for Migratory Game Birds...... 22 SEASON DATES TABLE...... 70 Britton Casey Dowler 605.881.3775 909 Lake Front Drive 603 E. 8th Ave. Transporting, Shipping and Storage ...... 26 Webster Austin Norton 605.881.2177 Sisseton Dean Shultz 605.881.3773 OTHER SEASONS Webster Michael Undlin 605.237.3275 Other Seasons...... 28 Aberdeen Tim McCurdy* 605.380.4572 Kristi Noem, Governor Kelly Hepler, GFP Secretary Furbearer Seasons...... 29 Clear Lake Adam Behnke 605.881.3780 Scott Simpson, Parks Division Director Tony Leif, Wildlife Division Director Furbearer Regulations...... 30 Watertown Kyle Lenzner 605.881.3777 Estelline Dan Sternhagen 605.881.0018 GAME, FISH AND PARKS COMMISSIONERS facebook.com/sdgfp @SDGameFishParks @SDGameFishParks Milbank Blake Swanson 605.881.3779 Clark Zach Thomsen 605.881.2260 Gary Jensen, Chair, Rapid City Jon Locken, Bath Milbank Jamie Pekelder* 605.881.3778 Scott Phillips, Vice Chair, New Underwood Mary Anne Boyd, Yankton Plankinton Lynn Geuke 605.220.6943 Russell Olson, Wentworth Travis Bies, Fairburn Huron Trevor Johnson 605.941.4552 Howard Evan Meyer 605.553.4299 Doug Sharp, Watertown Robert Whitmyre, Webster Mitchell Andy Petersen 605.770.0340 Help keep our sloughs, lakes and reservoirs healthy Salem Matt Talbert 605.360.0491 The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks’ mission is to provide sustainable outdoor Sioux Falls Jeremy Roe* 605.940.3519 recreational opportunities through responsible management of our state’s parks, fisheries and wildlife by checking your boats, blinds and decoys for aquatic invasive species (AIS) after every hunt. Brookings Jeff Grendler 605.360.0509 by fostering partnerships, cultivating stewardship and safely connecting people with the outdoors. Humboldt Jared Hill 605.941.0181 Positions current at time of publication. Sioux Falls Chris Kuntz 605.350.1669 Madison Cody Symens 605.480.3364 Boat plugs must be removed and left out from the Lake Preston Shane VanBockern 605.360.0514 180,000 copies of this document were printed by Midstates Printing at a rate of 16 cents per copy. Printed on 30 time you pull your boat out of the water and trailers Flandreau Chad Williams 605.530.7085 percent PCW recycled paper. Sioux Falls Jeremy Rakowicz* 605.941.0074 South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks receives Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. and blinds must be free of visible weeds. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1975, Title IX of the Education Yankton Dan Altman 605.941.4549 Amendments of 1972, the U.S. Department of the Interior and its bureaus prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, Tyndall Todd Crownover 605.360.0497 color, national origin, age, disability, or sex (in educational programs). If you believe that you have been discriminated Olivet Brian Humphrey 605.941.4735 against in any program, activity or facility, or if you desire further information please write to: The U.S. Fish and Wild- Stay educated, stay informed and help current and Elk Point Tony Stokely 605.356.9491 Canton Josh VandenBosch 605.940.0222 life Service, Office for Diversity and Civil Rights Programs-External Programs, 4040 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 130, future generations slow the spread of AIS in our Yankton Sam Schelhaas* 605.941.4540 Arlington, VA 22203. great state. You can also visit SDLEASTWANTED.COM at any time to learn more about what you can do!

SOUTH DAKOTA Southeast – Marty Pennock, Sioux Falls (605.201.3001)

Northeast – Kraig Haase, Watertown (605.881.3774) Game, Fish Cover Photo by Keith Anderson & Parks

4 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 5 GOOSE (pg. 19) Game Species Resident Nonresident • Modified the season length and changed the daily bag limit from 2 to 3 for the white-fronted goose season. 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 DUCK (pg. 18) Mourning Dove u, - Any combination License License • Decreased the pintail daily bag limit from 2 to 1. u u - Youth Small Game License Snipe , Sandhill Crane Mourning Dove, Snipe and Sandhill Mourning Dove, Snipe and Sandhill Crane also require State Migratory MOURNING DOVE (pg. 28) Crane also require State Migratory Bird Certification • Removed the restriction to hunt mourning doves within 50 yards of a public road. Mourning dove hunting is Bird Certification still prohibited within road rights-of-way. *NOTE: State Migratory Bird Certification alone does not entitle SANDHILL CRANE (pg. 28) nonresidents to hunt migratory waterfowl. • Adjusted the unit boundary open to hunting. Waterfowl (includes Ducks, One of the following: - State Nonresident Waterfowl TURKEY (pg. 34, 35 & 37) Geese u, Coot u, - Small Game License License (fall licenses by application - 1-Day Small Game License only) • Closed archery turkey hunting in Lake County south of State Highway 34. Tundra Swan v, Sandhill Crane u) - Any Combination License - State Migratory Bird Certification • Extended the season dates for the Black Hills and prairie spring seasons to May 31 - Youth Small Game License (included in license purchase) • Prohibited the use of rifles for any spring turkey season PLUS PLUS - State Migratory Bird Certification - Federal Waterfowl Stamp DEER (pg. 33) - Federal Waterfowl Stamp (ages 16 and older) (ages 16 and older) • Established private land units for antlerless deer licenses in certain West River and East River hunting units. Coyote w, Red and Grey Fox, Hunting - One of the following: Hunting - One of the following: • Modified areas open for antlerless deer hunting for both archery and muzzleloader deer hunting Skunk - Predator/Varmint License - Nonresident Predator/Varmint - Furbearer License License season. - Any resident hunting license - Any Nonresident Hunting License • Modified areas open for landowner free antlerless deer licenses. - No license required for other than Nonresident Shooting • Modified season dates for Waubay National Wildlife Refuge. youth under age 16 Preserve • Made an allowance for antlerless deer licenses to be valid for the Sand Lake National Wildlife Trapping Hunting or Trapping Refuge. - Furbearer License - Nonresident Furbearer License • Changed the start date for archery deer season on public lands for nonresident archery deer - No license required for hunters and established an application deadline for nonresident archery deer hunters youth under age 16 • Established a limited number of archery access permits for both resident and nonresidents for Raccoon, Badger, Opossum Same as above Hunting or Trapping firearm Unit 35L. - Nonresident Furbearer License

ELK (pg. 33) Bobcat, Mink, Weasel, Beaver, Hunting or Trapping Hunting or Trapping Muskrat - Furbearer License - Nonresident Furbearer License • Closed the antlerless elk seasons in Custer State Park. (see Furbearer Regulation - No license required for section for muskrat shooting) youth under age 16 BIGHORN SHEEP (pg. 33) • Modified the boundary for Unit 3. 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 TRAPPING (pg. 29) - Furbearer License - Any Nonresident Hunting • Modified the dates allowed to use live traps and associated equipment on public lands and road - No license required for youth License other than Nonresident rights-of-way. under age 16 Shooting Preserve - Nonresident Furbearer license OTHER Licensed Private Same licenses required to hunt that One of the following: • Removed and modified turkey transportation requirements. (pg. 36 & 37) Shooting Preserve species off a preserve - Shooting Preserve License; or • Modified big game tagging requirements by allowing big game, other than elk, to be tagged on the - Same licenses needed to hunt that species off a preserve hock tendon and leg bone OR around the base of the antler/horn. (pg. 37 ) • Created a combined drawing for Black Hills, East River, West River, Refuge, Custer State Park Big Game Resident Big Game License and Nonresident Big Game License and Muzzleloader deer hunting seasons; made an allowance to use preference points for both (including Wild Turkey) Tag and Tag 1st and 2nd choices in drawings one through three; and created a bonus preference point for applicants 15 years of age or younger. u Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not required for Spring Light Goose, Canada Goose August Management Take, Coot, • Modified the dates for the placement of portable tree stands on certain public lands. (pg. 37) 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.

6 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 7 No license may be refunded or transferred after officer. A licensee who is 16 years of age or older or both legs; and a $8 agent’s fee for nonresidents. being issued. who holds the license authorization, shall exhibit • Requires a wheelchair for mobility; Revoked Licenses and provide for inspection a driver’s license, a • Is physically unable to walk without the If a person is convicted of certain wildlife Border Waters state-issued identification card or another form of assistance of another person, prosthetic aid, violations, the person’s hunting or trapping On border waters with adjacent states, other valid identification for the purpose of verifying the brace, crutch or other device that is intended to privilege shall be automatically revoked for one than Nebraska, individuals with a valid South identity of the licensee. support or assist the person while walking; or more years and that person is prohibited from Dakota hunting or trapping license may only take Persons hunting, fishing, trapping or engaged • Is on portable oxygen; buying or applying for another license during that wild animals on South Dakota’s side of the border. in any recreational activity on private land shall • Is unable to walk a distance of more than 300 time. However, on the South Dakota-Nebraska border upon request exhibit their license to hunt, fish feet without assistance or rest due to arthritic, Some violations are: knowingly trespassing, waters a hunter holding a resident South Dakota or or trap. If unlicensed or engaged in another neurological or orthopedic condition; violating the artificial light law, substantially a resident Nebraska license may enter and leave recreational activity, that person shall provide their • Has been diagnosed with a neuromuscular exceeding daily or possession limits, illegally the water from either state’s shore. Individuals first and last name, town/city and state/province of disorder (such as muscular dystrophy or shooting big game from road rights-of-way, holding a nonresident license must enter and leave residence as shown on their driver’s license, state- multiple sclerosis); shooting certain animals from a motor vehicle, the water from the shore of the state in which issued identification card or other form of valid • Has been diagnosed with a Class III cardiac violating any rule pertaining to hunting or they are licensed. Deeded islands in the Missouri identification to any person with legal authority disease resulting in marked limitation of physical possessing game without a license or during a River require the license of the state in which they to control access to the private land where the activity; closed season or violating a wildlife law punishable are deeded. South Dakota islands are: James hunting, fishing, trapping or other recreational • Has been diagnosed with a Class IV cardiac as a Class 1 misdemeanor or felony. River Island, Gunderson Island and Jones Island. activity is occurring. disease resulting in the inability to carry on any Any person whose hunting or trapping privileges Nebraska islands are: Mayfield Island and Elk/ Hunters can use their smartphone to display a physical activity without discomfort; are currently revoked or suspended in any other Rush Island. Sandbars and islands not deeded copy of their license in lieu of a paper copy. • Is restricted by lung disease to such a degree state or country may not purchase a license or and not attached to either state and Lake Yankton that the person’s forced expiratory volume in exercise the same privilege in South Dakota during are open to hunting by licensed hunters from either Delinquent Child Support one second, when measured by a spirometer, is the period of revocation or suspension. state. South Dakota law prohibits the issuance of any less than one liter; or the arterial oxygen tension No person who has an unpaid and unsatisfied The Springfield Bottoms are open only to South license or permit issued by GFP if an individual is less than 60 mm/hg on room air at rest. judgment issued for wildlife civil damages may Dakota licensed hunters and the Bazile Creek owes $1,000 or more in past-due child support, In addition: hunt, fish or trap or purchase, attempt to purchase Area is open only to Nebraska licensed hunters. unless the individual enters into a repayment • Persons who have lost an arm or permanent or possess any South Dakota hunting, fishing or Hunters licensed by either state may hunt agreement with the Department of Social Services use of an arm or use a wheelchair for mobility, trapping license. anywhere in the flowing Missouri River as long as (DSS) for payment of the delinquent child support. may be eligible for a crossbow/draw-lock permit. water separates the hunter from the mainland of For more information, contact the Division of Child • Persons classified as legally blind or Restrictions the other state. Support at 605.773.3641. 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 Buying Licenses Disabled Hunter Permits Applications may be requested from: assumed name or in which an address other than Resident and nonresident over-the-counter A Disabled Hunter Permit allows a qualified GFP Disabled Hunter Permits; 20641 SD Hwy the person’s regular place of residence is given or licenses may be purchased at many retail stores in hunter to lawfully shoot game animals from a 1806; Ft. Pierre SD 57532; gfp.sd.gov/disabled- make any false statement whatsoever in securing South Dakota and at a few County Treasurer offices. stationary motor vehicle. This includes big game hunter; or any Wildlife Division office. a license or preference point, lend a license or tag When purchasing licenses over the counter you animals such as deer, antelope, elk and turkey to another or knowingly issue or aid in securing must have your state-issued ID with you. Licenses as well as small game animals such as grouse, Licensing Agent Fee a license or preference point for any person not can also be purchased online at gfp.sd.gov, or with pheasants, partridge, rabbits and waterfowl. The The maximum fee for hunting, fishing or legally entitled to it. the GFP mobile app. Disabled Hunter Permit is free to qualified hunters, trapping licenses sold by a license agent or online Big Game Licenses (including turkey licenses) valid for a four year period and may be renewed is $4 per item; except the maximum fee for issuing Social Security Number and Nonresident Fall Waterfowl Licenses are issued after the expiration date. A temporary permit all Nonresident Small Game Licenses is $8. The All U.S. residents are required by federal by lottery and can also be completed through the can be issued for no more than 12 months for agent’s fee may not be charged for issuing the and state law (SDCL 25-7A-56.2) to provide online licensing application system. The tag/license temporary ambulatory injuries. State Migratory Bird Certification. their Social Security Number when purchasing is then mailed to individuals who draw a permit. A NOTE: The disabled hunter permit is intended Lost Licenses and applying for a license; online or via paper paper version of the application for mailing can be for use only in situations where an applicant’s Lost general hunting and fishing licenses may application. The State of South Dakota continues obtained online as well as at GFP regional offices physical or medical condition makes it impossible be replaced by any local licensing agent. Agents to maintain the highest level of online security and through local licensing agents. or causes severe pain or physical hardship on the may charge a standard agent fee ($4 or $8) for standards through the Payment Card Industry applicant to walk while hunting. replacing general hunting and fishing licenses. In (PCI) to ensure customer safety when processing Carrying/Exhibiting Licenses Qualifying individuals must have at least one addition, licenses may be reprinted at home by the online transactions. A licensee shall exhibit the licensee’s license of the following physical disabilities or medical licensee at any time. or license authorization issued by the Department conditions: Big Game Licensees should contact Tribal Information of Game, Fish and Parks upon request by a • Has lost one or both legs or who has 605.223.7660 for information on replacing lost big State hunting licenses are valid on private, conservation officer or other law enforcement temporarily or permanently lost the use of one game tags. Big Game Licenses are replaced for deeded lands within the exterior boundaries of $20 a license, plus a $4 agent’s fee for residents reservations.

8 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 9 State hunting licenses are not valid on tribal state licensing requirements, seasons and bag • Any foreign exchange student over 16 years Military General Fishing and Hunting License trust lands and tribal licenses are not valid on limits apply. of age attending a public or private high Any resident who is on active duty in the armed private deeded lands within a reservation. Persons Ownership of the former U.S. Army Corps school who has resided in the state for 30 forces of the United States and who is stationed planning to hunt on tribal lands should contact the of Engineers lands on the Lower Brule Sioux days or more preceding the application; at a location outside the state may fish and hunt appropriate tribal office: Cheyenne River (Eagle Reservation and Cheyenne River Sioux • Any foreign exchange student between small game without payment of a fee or the Butte), Crow Creek (Ft. Thompson), Flandreau Reservation has been transferred to the respective the ages of 12 and 16 who has completed applicable hunting and fishing license authorizing Santee (Flandreau), Lower Brule (Lower Brule), tribes. All tribal and federal laws apply down to the a hunter safety education course and has the activity. However, if the resident is hunting Pine Ridge (Kyle), Rosebud (Rosebud), Sisseton/ water’s edge. Please contact the appropriate tribal been issued certificate of competency upon migratory birds, the resident shall obtain a State Wahpeton (Agency Village), Standing Rock (Ft. office for specific information. completion of instruction and who has resided Migratory Bird Certification permit and Federal Yates, ND), Yankton (Marty). However, if hunting in the state for 30 days or more preceding Waterfowl Stamp (when necessary). While on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lands adjoining application for a license; engaged in the permitted activity, the resident the Crow Creek or Standing Rock Reservations, • Any person who is a minor dependent of a shall possess and display appropriate military resident of this state; orders indicating the resident is on active duty • For the purpose of acquiring resident small stationed outside of South Dakota and a valid game and fishing licenses, any person who military identification card. This section does not Resident Licenses and Fees does not reside in South Dakota, but who is a apply to any person who is serving on active duty 2019 licenses are valid Dec. 15, 2018 through Jan. 31, 2020 member of the South Dakota National Guard for training as a member of the armed forces 2020 licenses will be valid Dec. 15, 2019 through Jan. 31, 2021 or of any other unit of a reserve component of reserve or National Guard. Combination (small game and fishing)*...... $55 the armed forces of the United States located Military Big Game License - Active Duty Senior Combination, ages 65 and up (small game and fishing)*...... $40 in South Dakota. Any person in the armed services of the United Junior Combination, ages 16-18 (small game and fishing)...... $27 States who is absent from this state on active duty Small Game*...... $33 Proof of Residency during the entire time for making application and is One-day Small Game...... $12 To buy a license, a resident age 16 or older otherwise qualified and a resident of South Dakota, Youth Small Game, ages 12-15...... $5 needs a valid South Dakota driver’s license or a may apply for and shall receive deer, turkey and State Migratory Bird Certification...... $5 state-issued and expiration-dated South Dakota antelope licenses. In addition, any spouse and Predator/Varmint...... $5 ID card. Either can be obtained at a state driver’s any minor dependent child of such a person in Furbearer...... $30 license office. Youth hunters under age 16 are the armed services who are also absent from this * Fee includes a $6 surcharge mandated by state law. Revenue derived from this surcharge is dedicated to required to provide a certificate of completion from hunting access, wildlife damage management and animal damage control programs. a hunter safety education course. state during the entire time for making application and are otherwise qualified, may apply for and Termination of Residency shall receive deer, turkey and antelope licenses. Residency this state who is absent due to business of the A person (other than a person who fits into one To be eligible for a resident license, a person United States or of this state or is serving in of the above EXCEPTIONS) is deemed to have must meet all of the following criteria: the armed forces of the United States or the terminated their South Dakota resident hunting, Big Game License • Have a domicile within this state for at least spouse of an active duty military person; fishing and trapping status if the person does any Resident big game (including turkey) licenses 90 consecutive days immediately preceding • Any person who previously had a domicile in of the following: are issued by application and a drawing. Big the date of application for purchasing or this state who is absent due to the person’s • Applies for, purchases or accepts a resident Game Licenses also allow the licensee to hunt attempting to purchase any hunting, fishing or regular attendance at a post high school hunting, fishing or trapping license issued by prairie dog, jackrabbit, gopher, ground squirrel, trapping license/permit. A domicile is a person’s institution as a full time student or in a medical another state or foreign country; crow, porcupine, marmot, red fox, grey fox, established, fixed and permanent home to or dental residency program; • Registers to vote in another state or foreign coyotes, skunks, opossum, and other unprotected which the person, whenever absent, has the • Any person in the active military of the United country; species through Jan. 31. For a Big Game License present intention of returning; States, or that person’s spouse, who is • Accepts a driver’s license issued by another to be valid to hunt these species, the licensee • Make no claim of residency in any other state or continuously stationed in this state; state or foreign country; must retain the top portion of the Big Game foreign country for any purpose; • Any person who is a patient in any war • Moves to any other state or foreign country and License. • Claim no resident hunting, fishing or trapping veterans’ hospital within this state; makes it the person’s domicile or makes any Combination License privileges in any other state or foreign country; • Any person who is an employee of the claim of residency for any purpose in the other All Combination Licenses grant the same • Prior to any application for any license transfer veterans’ administration or any veterans’ state or foreign country. However, a person privileges as the Fishing License and Small Game to this state the person’s driver’s license and hospital in this state; who has lawfully acquired a resident hunting, License. They do not include the State Migratory motor vehicle registrations. • Any person residing on restricted military fishing or trapping license and who leaves Bird Certification. EXCEPTIONS: The following persons are deemed reservations in this state; the state after acquiring the license to take up to be residents of this state as long as they • Any person attending regularly a post- high residency elsewhere may continue to exercise all the privileges granted by the license until Disability License continue to meet any of the conditions set forth school institution in this state as a full time The following residents may apply to the below: student for 30 days or more immediately the license expires if the person’s respective privileges are not revoked or suspended. License Office to receive a $10 Disability Card • Any person who previously had a domicile in preceding the application; that is equivalent to the Fishing License and Small

10 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 11 Game License and is valid for four years: badger, bobcat, opossum, mink, weasel, beaver, Youth (12-15) the State Migratory Bird Certification. The Junior • Persons who are paraplegics, or otherwise muskrat and skunk; and when and where allowed Residents who are at least 12 years of age Combination License is valid through the end of permanently physically unable to walk; is required to hunt bobcat, opossum, mink, weasel, or who will turn 12 by Dec. 31, may apply for or the license year even if the licensee turns 19. • Persons blind or visually impaired; beaver and muskrat. However, a Furbearer buy licenses and may hunt in any open season Landowners • A person who has a developmental disability License is not required for residents to trap beginning Sept. 1 provided they have successfully Resident landowners and their immediate family (fishing only), contact the GFP License Office raccoon, skunk, badger, opossum, jackrabbit, red completed a hunter safety education course and (husband, wife and children residing at home at 605.223.7660, or visit gfp.sd.gov fox, grey fox and coyote from April 1 - Aug. 31. No possess a course certification card and present or on land owned or leased by the landowner) • Resident veterans can qualify for a Disability license is required for resident youth under age 16. it at time of purchasing the license(s). A parent may trap furbearers and hunt their property for License in one of four way: or guardian must accompany the youth when Predator/Varmint License small game (pheasant, grouse, partridge, quail, (1) If they receive a veterans allotment for a 40% obtaining the license(s). The Predator/Varmint License is needed to hunt cottontail rabbit, squirrel, mourning dove and or more disability which is deemed a service- Residents under age 16 are exempt from coyote, red fox, grey fox, skunk, raccoon, badger, snipe), furbearers (opossum, muskrat, beaver, connected injury. buying the Furbearer License, Predator/Varmint prairie dog, gopher, crow, opossum, jackrabbit, mink, skunk, raccoon, badger, red fox, grey (2) If they have received the Department License and Federal Waterfowl Stamp. However, ground squirrel, porcupine and marmot. Other fox, coyote, bobcat, weasel and jackrabbit) and of Veterans Affairs “K” Award. they must buy the Youth Small Game License for licenses that may be used in lieu of the Predator/ predators/varmints (prairie dog, gopher, crow, (3) If they have served on active duty in the small game, migratory birds and waterfowl and Varmint License include any valid resident South chipmunk, ground squirrel, porcupine and marmot) armed forces of the United States or have the State Migratory Bird Certification if hunting Dakota hunting license or furbearer license. For a without obtaining a hunting or Furbearer License. served as a member of the armed forces migratory birds and waterfowl. The Youth Small Big Game License to be valid, the licensee must Landowners are also exempt from state reserve or national guard, and the resident Game License is valid through the end of the retain the top portion of the Big Game License. No licensing requirements for waterfowl hunting is 40% or more disabled for the purposes of license year even if the youth turns 16. However, license is required for resident youth under age 16. on their property but must purchase a Federal receiving social security benefits. upon turning 16 the youth must purchase the Waterfowl Stamp if they hunt ducks, geese, swans (4) If they were a Prisoner of War. State Migratory Bird Certification Federal Waterfowl Stamp if hunting migratory and mergansers. All laws and rules (season dates, A person must apply on forms provided by Except for landowners hunting on land that birds and waterfowl. bag limits, etc.) pertaining to hunting and trapping GFP and provide proof of South Dakota residency they own or lease, residents (including all Junior Junior (16-18) must be followed. with the application. Details and applications are Combination License holders and Youth Small Residents age 16 through 18 are required to available from: GFP Licensing Office; 20641 SD Game License holders) hunting migratory birds Shooting Preserves purchase the Junior Combination License (grants Hwy 1806; Ft. Pierre SD 57532; or call 605.223. and/or waterfowl must complete and purchase this Residents hunting small game on licensed the same privileges as the Annual Fishing License 7660 for details. certification. shooting preserves must possess a South Dakota Migratory birds that require this certification and Small Game License). It does not include license valid to hunt small game. 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 HUNTER SAFETY AND FIREARMS EDUCATION tundra swan and merganser. To purchase this Federal Waterfowl Stamp. HUNTSAFE CLASS INFORMATION stamp, check with your local U.S. Postal Office and/or local licensing agent. The stamp is part of HuntSAFE courses are required for persons the waterfowl hunting requirements in all states. age 12 - 15 but are open to all ages. Children However, hunters are required to purchase only Mentored Hunters (Under age 16) 11 years of age may participate, but will not be one stamp as long as the stamp is signed in ink Residents who are less than 16 are not issued a Hunter Safety certification card until required to possess a hunting license in order to across the face and carried at all times while their 12th birthday. Adults are also welcome and hunting relevant species. GFP recommends hunt if accompanied by a hunting mentor. that hunters leave the stamp on the original A hunting mentor can be the mentored hunter’s invited to attend. Your HuntSAFE certification backing on which it is issued. A lost or destroyed parent or guardian or any other competent does not serve as bowhunter education Federal Waterfowl Stamp can be replaced only by adult (at least 18 years old) who has the written certification. Class schedules vary from purchasing a new one. consent of the child’s parent or guardian. The community to community. Once class schedules NOTE: A Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not hunting mentor must be a resident, must be are finalized by local instructors, information is needed to hunt Sandhill crane, mourning dove, legally licensed for the game being hunted, posted at gfp.sd.gov/hunter-education and on snipe and coot or to take light geese during must be unarmed (may possess a permitted concealed pistol) and must have successfully the agency’s social media platforms. the Spring Light Goose conservation order and Canada Goose August Management Take; completed a recognized hunter safety education course. Mentors must possess the hunter safety If a student’s 12th birthday falls on or between Sept. 1 and however, a State Migratory Bird Certification is still Dec. 31, they may be issued a card and will be eligible to required for these species. education certification card on their person while accompanying a mentored hunter. For more obtain a license and hunt beginning Sept. 1 of that year. 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 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 13 Nonresident Licenses and Fees the shooting preserve for the two 5-day periods The fall Waterfowl License for Units 00B and 2019 licenses are valid Dec. 15, 2018 through Jan. 31, 2020 specified on the license and valid on licensed 11A are valid for 10 consecutive days; Unit 00A is 2020 licenses will be valid Dec. 15, 2019 through Jan. 31, 2021 shooting preserves through Jan. 31 for the valid through the entire season; and Units 00V, 00X, species for which the preserve is licensed. 00Y and 00Z are valid for three consecutive days. Small Game (two 5-day periods)*...... $121 Licenses are valid on private and public for Units Youth Small Game, ages 12-15 (two 5-day periods)...... $10 Small Game License 00A, 00B, 11A, and 00Y. Licenses are valid only Waterfowl (valid 10 days, lottery application only)*...... $121 The Small Game License or Youth Small Game on private land for Units 00V, 00X and 00Z; these Waterfowl (valid 3 days, lottery application only)*...... $86 License is valid for two periods of five consecutive licenses are not valid on private property leased Early Fall Canada Goose (lottery application only)*...... $50 days. Starting dates must be chosen for BOTH by GFP for public hunting or on public highways or Spring Light Goose Conservation Order*...... $50 periods when the license is purchased. Both dates other rights-of-way otherwise open to hunting. Youth Spring Light Goose Conservation Order, ages 12-15...... $26 must be filled in on the license even if the two The Nonresident Early Fall Canada Goose State Migratory Bird Certification...... $5 5-day periods run consecutively. Nonresidents License is valid Sept. 7 - Sept. 30. Nonresidents Predator/Varmint...... $40 may buy more than one Small Game License. may not hunt geese during this season in Units Furbearer (application only)...... $275 The start date for each 5-day period may be 2 and 3 or in the following counties: Beadle, Shooting Preserve (annual)*...... $121 changed prior to the start date. The change may Brookings, Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Shooting Preserve (5-day)*...... $76 be made online or at any license agent. License McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, Shooting Preserve (1-day)*...... $46 agents may charge a fee of up to $8. This license Turner and Union counties. * Fee includes a $6 surcharge mandated by state law. Revenue from this surcharge is dedicated to hunting also allows nonresidents to shoot coyotes, red On all limited-days Waterfowl Licenses, access, wildlife damage management and animal damage control programs. and grey fox, skunks, prairie dogs and other successful applicants must provide a start date unprotected species through Jan. 31 and to hunt before the license will be issued. The dates can Big Game Licenses to trap coyote, red fox, grey fox, raccoon, badger, on licensed shooting preserves through Jan. 31. Nonresident Big Game Licenses (including bobcat, opossum, mink, weasel, beaver, muskrat be changed prior to the start date; either online turkey) are issued by application and a drawing. and skunks; and when and where allowed State Migratory Bird Certification or through the licensing office. These Waterfowl Big Game Licenses also allow the licensee to hunt is required to hunt raccoon, badger, bobcat, Nonresidents who hunt Sandhill crane, snipe Licenses also allow nonresidents to hunt coyotes, prairie dog, jackrabbit, gopher, ground squirrel, opossum, mink, weasel, beaver and muskrat. and mourning doves with a Small Game License red and grey fox, skunks, prairie dogs, opossum crow, porcupine, marmot, red fox, grey fox, Applications are available at local offices or online also need to purchase the State Migratory Bird and other unprotected species through Jan. 31. coyotes, skunks, opossum, and other unprotected at gfp.sd.gov. Certification (those hunting Sandhill crane with Youth License species through Jan. 31. For a Big Game License a Waterfowl License have met the requirement Landowners Nonresidents who are at least 12 years of to be valid to hunt these species, the licensee with this license). Certification for migratory bird age or will turn 12 by Dec. 31, may apply for or must retain the top portion of the Big Game State law limits landowner license privileges seasons hunted with the Nonresident Waterfowl to South Dakota residents only. Nonresident buy licenses and may hunt in any open season License. Licenses is included in the purchase process for beginning Sept. 1. Those younger cannot hunt in landowners must purchase the appropriate those licenses. Federal Waterfowl Stamp nonresident licenses. South Dakota. Waterfowl Licenses To buy a license, nonresidents under 16 need This stamp is an additional requirement for Predator/Varmint License those ages 16 and older to hunt ducks, geese, A South Dakota Waterfowl License is required for a copy of their hunter safety education certificate Nonresidents may hunt prairie dog, jackrabbit, nonresidents to hunt migratory waterfowl. Licenses or a copy of a current or previous hunting license tundra swan and merganser. To purchase this gopher, ground squirrel, crow, porcupine, marmot, stamp, check with your local U.S. Postal Office for the fall seasons are issued by lottery. Licenses issued to them from any state. red fox, grey fox, coyotes, opossum and skunks if for the Spring Light Goose Conservation Order and/or local licensing agent. The stamp is part of they possess a Predator/Varmint License or any Units 00B and 11A are valid for 10 consecutive days the waterfowl hunting requirements in all states. can be purchased through a local licensing agent valid South Dakota Hunting or Furbearer License or online. Nonresident Youth Waterfowl Licenses Unit 00A is valid through the entire season However, hunters are required to purchase (other than nonresident shooting preserve). only one stamp as long as the stamp is signed in are only valid during the two-day youth waterfowl Units 00V, 00X, 00Y, and 00Z are valid for three ink across the face and carried at all times while Shooting Preserve License season. Licensed waterfowl hunters may only hunt consecutive days. hunting relevant species. GFP recommends South Dakota permits private shooting within the unit designated on their license. Licenses are valid on private and public for Units 00A, that hunters leave the stamp on the original preserves to offer hunting from Sept. 1 - March 00B, 11A and 00Y. Licenses are valid only on private Nonresident waterfowl hunting units: backing on which it is issued. A lost or destroyed 31. Nonresidents hunting on a licensed shooting land for Units 00V, 00X and 00Z. Campbell Campbell McPherson McPherson Marshall Roberts preserve need the Nonresident Shooting Preserve Corson Marshall Roberts Corson Federal Waterfowl Stamp can be replaced only by Harding Harding Brown Brown Perkins 00V 00Y Perkins Walworth Edmunds Walworth Edmunds purchasing a new one. License, Nonresident Small Game License or a Day Day Grant Grant Dewey Dewey Potter Faulk Potter Faulk Nonresident Youth Small Game License. Codington Codington NOTE: A Federal Waterfowl Stamp is not Butte Spink Butte Spink Clark Ziebach Clark Ziebach Deuel 00Z Sully Deuel 00B Sully needed to hunt Sandhill crane, mourning dove, The Shooting Preserve License is valid through Hamlin Hamlin Hyde Hand Hyde Hand Meade 00X Meade Stanley Beadle Lawrence Stanley Beadle Lawrence Hughes Kingsbury Brookings Hughes Kingsbury Brookings snipe, coot or to take light geese during Spring Jan. 31 only on licensed shooting preserves and Haakon Haakon 00Z Buffalo Buffalo Jerauld Jerauld Lake Sanborn Miner Lake Moody Sanborn Miner Moody Light Goose Conservation Order - a State allows the hunter to take only the game for which Pennington Jones Lyman Pennington Jones Lyman Davison Davison Brule Hanson Jackson Brule Aurora Hanson the preserve is licensed. The license is valid to Custer Jackson Aurora McCook Minnehaha Custer McCook Minnehaha Migratory Bird Certification is still mandatory. Mellette Mellette

Oglala Tripp Douglas Oglala Tripp Douglas Hutchinson Lincoln Hutchinson Turner Lincoln Lakota Turner Fall Lakota take Predator/Varmints on preserves through Fall Charles Charles River Bennett Todd Gregory Mix River Bennett Todd Gregory Mix

Bon Yankton 11A 00A Bon Yankton Union Union Furbearer License March 31. Homme Homme Clay Clay The Nonresident Furbearer License is required The Small Game License is valid outside

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NEED UPDATED MAP RING-NECKED PHEASANT PRAIRIE CHICKEN and SHARP-TAILED GROUSE DATES: Oct. 19 - Jan. 5 Includes ruffed grouse. OPEN AREA: DATES: Sept. 21 - Jan. 5 All of South Dakota except: OPEN AREA: Statewide. • Renziehausen Game Production Area and Game Bird Refuge in Brown and Marshall Counties, DAILY LIMIT: 3 (any combination). Gerken Game Bird Refuge in Faulk County and White Lake Game Bird Refuge in Marshall County POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 (any combination) taken according to the daily limit. Limit accrues at the are open Dec. 1 - Jan. 5. rate of 3 birds a day; 15 birds may not be possessed until after the fifth day of hunting. • Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Brown County is open Dec. 9 - Jan. 5. SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset statewide. 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. 19 - 25; 10 a.m., Central Time, to Attention Prairie Chicken and Grouse Hunters sunset the rest of the season. NOTE: Central Time is used for opening shooting hours statewide. 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 YOUTH RING-NECKED PHEASANT 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 DATES: Oct. 5 - 9 all wing box collection locations at gfp.sd.gove and search “wing box locations.” 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. GREATER SAGE-GROUSE POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 rooster pheasants, taken according to daily limit SEASON CLOSED 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 GRAY PARTRIDGE AND CHUKAR hunter must be less than 16 years of age. See pages 64-65 for the requirements for “Mentored and DATES: Sept. 21 - Jan. 5 Youth Small Game Hunting.” OPEN AREA: Statewide. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: All youth hunters must be accompanied by an unarmed adult. It is DAILY LIMIT: 5 (any combination). advisable that all wear at least one exterior garment of fluorescent orange. POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 (any combination), taken according to daily bag limit. SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset statewide. RESIDENT-ONLY RING-NECKED PHEASANT DATES: Oct. 12 - 14 QUAIL 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 DATES: Oct. 19 - Jan. 5 open for hunting. OPEN AREA: Statewide. • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production Areas. DAILY LIMIT: 5 (any combination). • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land adjacent to the Missouri River. POSSESSION LIMIT: 15 (any combination), taken according to daily bag limit. • U.S. Forest Service National Grasslands. SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset statewide. • 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 Attention Dog Owners Areas open during the regular pheasant season. Hunters who hunt public lands and road rights-of-way should understand their dogs may encounter • GFP managed and leased property designated as Walk-in Areas and land enrolled in the fences, barbed wire, posts, old machinery or other materials that may cause injury. In addition, most Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP). public lands allow trapping and snaring. Dog owners should be aware they are sharing these lands with • Non-toxic shot is required to hunt small game on most public lands. other users and may encounter these activities. Landowner permission is required for trapping on lands DAILY LIMIT: 3 rooster pheasants. leased for public hunting such as: Walk-In Areas, Controlled Hunting and Access Program (CHAP) and 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. Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) areas, however, the same potential risks may SHOOTING HOURS: Noon (central time) to sunset. exist on these lands as well. Visit gfp.sd.gov to view an informational video.

16 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 17 2019 Waterfowl Hunting Information 2019 Waterfowl Hunting Information DUCK CANADA GOOSE HIGH PLAINS: Visit: gfp.sd.gov/maps to view an interactive map. Includes brant and cackling geese. • Oct. 12 - Jan. 16 Shooting Hours: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset. Same as under Duck Regulations (pg. 18).

• The area west of Boundary Low Plains Non-toxic Shot: i A (see Boundary Definitions) A North Zone Antelope Island Restrictions: Same as under Duck Regulations (pg. 18).

LOW PLAINS - NORTH ZONE: • Sept. 28 - Dec. 10 i B AUGUST MANAGEMENT TAKE: Aug. 17-31 • The area east of Boundary A Daily Limit: 15 geese

and north of Boundary B High Plains Possession Limit: Unlimited Open Area: That portion of Pennington County west of the Cheyenne River. Federal migratory LOW PLAINS - MIDDLE ZONE: Low Plains • Sept. 28 - Dec. 10 Middle Zone waterfowl stamp is not required. • The area east of Boundary A, south of Boundary B and (SEE UNIT BOUNDARY MAP ON PAGE 20) Sept. 7 - Dec. 22

i UNIT 1:

north of Boundary C A i Daily Limit: LOW PLAINS - SOUTH ZONE: C September Season: 8 geese from Sept. 7 - 30 • Oct. 26 - Jan. 7 Low Plains • The area within Boundary C South Zone NOTE: Nonresidents may not hunt Canada or Cackling Geese from Sept. 7 - 30 in the BOUNDARY DEFINITIONS: counties of Beadle, Brookings, Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner, • Boundary A - A line beginning at the SD-ND state line and extending south along U.S. 83 to U.S. Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, Turner and Union. 14, east on U.S. Hwy 14 to Blunt, south on the Blunt-Canning Road to SD Hwy 34, east and south Regular Season: 8 geese from Oct. 1 - Dec. 22 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 Possession Limit: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit. 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 The counties of Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Butte, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, to the SD-NE state line. Davison, Day, Deuel, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Haakon, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Harding, Hutchinson, Jackson, Jerauld, Jones, Kingsbury, Lake, McCook, McPherson, Marshall, Meade, Mellette, • Boundary B - A line beginning at the junction of U.S. Hwy 83 and U.S. Hwy 212, then east on Moody, Miner, Oglala Lakota, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Todd, Turner, Walworth, and Ziebach, that U.S. Hwy 212 to the SD-MN state line. portion of Dewey County north of Bureau of Indian Affairs Road 8, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Road 9, and - A line beginning at the junction of SD Hwy 47 and the SD-NE state line, then north • Boundary C the section of U.S. Hwy 212 east of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Road 8 junction, that portion of Potter 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 County east of U.S. Hwy 83, that portion of Sully County east of U.S. Hwy 83, portions of Hyde, Buffalo, CFAS 6198 (Geddes Hwy) at Geddes, then east on the Geddes Hwy to U.S. Hwy 281, then south Brule, Charles Mix, and Bon Homme counties north and east of a line beginning at the Hughes-Hyde 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 county line on SD Hwy 34, east to Lees Boulevard, southeast to the SD Hwy 34, east 7 miles to 350th state line. Avenue, south to Interstate 90 on 350th Avenue, south and east on SD Hwy 50 to Geddes, east on DAILY LIMIT: 285th Street to U.S. Hwy 281, north on U.S. Hwy 281 to the Charles Mix-Douglas county boundary, that • Ducks: 6 - The daily duck limit may be comprised of no more than: portion of Bon Homme County north of SD Hwy 50, those portions of Yankton and Clay counties north • 5 mallards, which may include no more than 2 hens of County Hwy 585 (306th Street) to U.S. Hwy 81, then north on U.S. Hwy 81 to 303rd Street, then east • 3 wood ducks on 303rd Street to 444th Avenue, then south on 444th Avenue to 305th Street, then east on Bluff Road • 3 scaup (305th Street) to County Hwy 19, south to SD Hwy 50 and east to the Clay/Union County line, and that • 2 redheads portion of Perkins County west of SD Hwy 75 and south of SD Hwy 20, that portion of Lincoln County • 2 canvasback west of SD Hwy 17 and south of County Hwy 116 (Klondike Road), and that portion of Minnehaha • 1 pintail County north of a line beginning at the junction of the South Dakota-Minnesota state line and County • 2 - bonus blue-winged teal (first 16 days of the season only) Hwy 122 (254th Street) west to its junction with County Hwy 149 (464th Avenue), that portion west of • (Low Plains North and Middle Zones: Sept. 28 - Oct. 13. Low Plains South Zone: Oct. 26 - Nov. County Hwy 149 (464th Avenue) to Hartford, that portion west of County Hwy 151 (463rd Avenue) to 10; High Plains: Oct. 12 - 27). State Hwy 42, that portion south of State Hwy 42 to SD Hwy 17, and the portion west of SD Hwy 17 to • Mergansers: 5, which may include no more than 2 hooded mergansers. the Minnehaha-Lincoln county boundary. • Coots: 15. POSSESSION LIMIT: Three times the daily limit; taken according to the daily limit. UNIT 2: Nov. 4 - Feb. 16. Those areas not included in Unit 1 or Unit 3. SHOOTING HOURS: One-half hour before sunrise to sunset. Daily Limit: 4 NON-TOXIC SHOT: Approved non-toxic shot is required to hunt waterfowl. See the “Non-Toxic Shot Possession Limit: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit. Regulations” section for more information. ANTELOPE ISLAND RESTRICTIONS: The Antelope Island area on Lake Sharpe (the area UNIT 3: Jan. 11 - 19. Bennett County. within the water’s edge from a north-south line across Lake Sharpe through the dredged channel at Daily Limit: 4 the east end of Hipple Lake, downstream to a north-south line across the reservoir 100 yards east of Possession Limit: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit. the eastern-most emergent vegetation on Antelope Island) has the following restrictions - No waterfowl NOTE: Bennett County is open to Canada and Cackling goose hunting Oct. 19 - Dec. 22 by lottery decoys or hunting blinds may be left in the area between sunset and 5 a.m.; and no waterfowl decoys license ONLY. All goose limits apply, but Canada and Cackling geese must be tagged immediately upon may be left unattended between 5 a.m. and sunset. possession of the bird.

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Unit 2 CANADA GOOSE UNIT BOUNDARY MAP

Unit 1 Unit 1

Unit 2 Unit 2

Unit 2

Unit 3

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

YOUTH WATERFOWL SEASON DATES: Sept. 21 - 22 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 Goose - 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. Recreation • Nonresident youth must have a Nonresident Waterfowl License with valid dates during Sept. 21 - 22 or a Nonresident Youth Waterfowl License to participate in this hunt. WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE AN D SEASON DATES: Sept. 28 - Dec. 10, statewide. UNIT: Statewide. Respect Stukel © Sam Photo DAILY LIMIT: 3 POSSESSION LIMIT: Three times the daily limit, taken according to daily limit. LIGHT GOOSE Ask before you access. SEASON DATES: Sept. 28 - Jan. 10, statewide. Many areas of South Dakota are true hunting treasures, but gaining access to UNIT: Statewide. them will take an investment of time and an honest, respectful approach. DAILY LIMIT: 50. POSSESSION LIMIT: Unlimited.

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Definitions of common terms used in federal species permitted to be taken by one person in • By means or aid of any motor driven land, seed or other feed after removal from or storage regulations: any one day during the open season in any one water or air conveyance, or any sailboat on the field where grown. specified geographic area for which a daily bag used for the purpose of or resulting in the Aggregate daily bag limit limit is prescribed. concentrating, driving, rallying or stirring up of Marking package or container The maximum number of migratory game birds any migratory bird; No person shall transport by the U.S. Postal permitted to be taken by one person in any one Gift of migratory game birds • While possessing loose shot for muzzle Service or a common carrier migratory game birds day during the open season when such person No person may receive, possess or give to loading or shot shells containing other than unless the package or container in which such hunts in more than one specified geographic another, any freshly killed migratory game birds as approved non-toxic shot; birds are transported has the name and address area and/or for more than one species for which a gift, except at the personal abodes of the donor • By the aid of baiting or on or over any baited of the shipper and the consignee and an accurate a combined daily bag limit is prescribed. The or donee, unless such birds have a tag attached, area, where a person knows or reasonably statement of the numbers of each species of aggregate daily bag limit is equal to, but shall signed by the hunter who took the birds, stating should know that the area is or has been birds therein contained clearly and conspicuously not exceed, the largest daily bag limit prescribed the hunter’s address, the total number and species baited. marked on the outside thereof. for any one species or for any one specified of birds and the date such birds were taken. However, nothing in this paragraph prohibits: geographic area in which taking occurs. • The taking of any migratory game bird, Migratory bird preservation facility Illegal Hunting Methods including waterfowl, coots and Sandhill cranes, Any person who, at their residence or place of Aggregate possession limit Migratory birds on which open seasons are on or over the following lands or areas that are business and for hire or other consideration; or The maximum number of migratory game birds prescribed in this part may be taken by any not otherwise baited areas; Any taxidermist, cold-storage facility or locker of a single species or combination of species taken method except those prohibited in this section. No • Standing crops or flooded standing crops plant which, for hire or other consideration; or in the United States permitted to be possessed persons shall take migratory game birds: (including aquatics); standing, flooded or Any hunting club which, in the normal course of by any one person when taking and possession • With a trap, snare, net, rifle, pistol, swivel manipulated natural vegetation; flooded operations; receives, possesses or has in custody occurs in more than one specified geographic area gun, shotgun larger than 10-gauge, punt gun, harvested croplands; or lands or areas where any migratory game birds belonging to another for which a possession limit is prescribed. The battery gun, machine gun, fish hook, poison, seeds or grains have been scattered solely person for purposes of picking, cleaning, freezing, aggregate possession limit is equal to, but shall drug, explosive or stupefying substance; as the result of a normal agricultural planting, processing, storage or shipment. not exceed, the largest possession limit prescribed • With a shotgun of any description capable of harvesting, post-harvest manipulation or for any one of the species or specified geographic holding more than three shells, unless it is normal soil stabilization practice; Natural vegetation areas in which taking and possession occurs. plugged with a one-piece filler, incapable of • From a blind or other place of concealment Any non-agricultural, native or naturalized plant removal without disassembling the gun, so its camouflaged with natural vegetation; species that grows at a site in response to planting Baited area total capacity does not exceed three shells; • From a blind or other place of concealment or from existing seeds or other propagules. The Any area on which salt, grain or other feed has • From or by means, aid or use of a sink-box or camouflaged with vegetation from agricultural term natural vegetation does not include planted been placed, exposed, deposited, distributed or any other type of low floating device, having crops, as long as such camouflaging does not millet. However, planted millet that grows on its scattered, if that salt, grain or other feed could a depression affording the hunter a means of result in the exposing, depositing, distributing own in subsequent years after the year of planting serve as a lure or attraction for migratory game concealment beneath the surface of the water; or scattering of grain or other feed; or is considered natural vegetation. birds to, on or over areas where hunters are • From or by means, aid or use of any motor • Standing or flooded standing agricultural crops vehicle, motor-driven land conveyance or attempting to take them. Any such area will remain where grain is inadvertently scattered solely No migratory bird preservation facility shall: aircraft of any kind; as a result of a hunter entering or exiting a • Receive or have in custody any migratory game 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. hunting area, placing decoys or retrieving bird unless accurate records are maintained craft having a motor attached or any sailboat, which can identify each bird received by or in the unless the motor has been completely shut downed birds. Baiting • The taking of any migratory game bird, except custody of, the facility by the name of the person off and/or the sails furled and its progress has from whom the bird was obtained and show: The direct or indirect placing, exposing, ceased; waterfowl, coots and Sandhill cranes, on or depositing, distributing or scattering of salt, over lands or areas that are not otherwise • The number of each species; • By the use or aid of live birds as decoys; • The location where taken; grain or other feed that could serve as a lure or although not limited to, it shall be a violation for baited areas and where grain or other feed attraction for migratory game birds to, on or over has been distributed or scattered solely as the • The date such birds were received; any person to take migratory waterfowl on an • The name and address of the person from any areas where hunters are attempting to take area where tame or captive live ducks or geese result of manipulation of an agricultural crop or them. other feed on the land where grown or solely whom such birds were received; are present unless such birds are and have • The date such birds were disposed of; and been for a period of 10 consecutive days prior as the result of a normal agricultural operation Custody of birds of another • The name and address of the person to whom to such taking, confined within an enclosure such birds were delivered or No person shall receive or have in custody any which substantially reduces the audibility of Manipulation migratory game birds belonging to another person The alteration of natural vegetation or • Destroy any records required to be maintained their calls and totally conceals such birds from under this section for a period of one year unless such birds are tagged as required. the sight of wild migratory waterfowl; agricultural crops by activities that include but are not limited to mowing, shredding, disking, following the last entry on the record. • By the use or aid of recorded or electrically • Record keeping as required by this section will Daily bag limit rolling, chopping, trampling, flattening, burning or amplified bird calls or sounds or recorded or not be necessary at hunting clubs which do not The maximum number of migratory game birds herbicide treatments. The term manipulation does electrically amplified imitations of bird calls or fully process migratory birds by removal of both of single species or combination (aggregate) of sound; not include the distributing or scattering of grain, the head and wings.

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Please note these examples do not represent an Tagging requirement Species identification requirement each such bird at all times while being transported all-inclusive list of waterfowl regulations. For a No person shall put or leave any migratory No person shall transport within the United from the place where taken until they have arrived detailed explanation, visit fws.gov/le or contact a game birds at any place (other than at his States any migratory game birds unless the head at the personal abode of the possessor or a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Law Enforcement personal abode) or in the custody of another or one fully feathered wing remains attached to migratory bird preservation facility. Agent at: Columbia 605.885.6403, Hot Springs person for picking, cleaning, processing, 605.745.5076, or Bismarck, ND 701.255.0593. shipping, transportation or storage (including temporary storage) or for the purpose of having Normal agricultural planting, harvesting, taxidermy services performed, unless such birds WATERFOWL INFORMATION: or post-harvest manipulation have a tag attached, signed by the hunter, stating GFP creates thunderstorm maps by rating areas of each county on a scale of 1-10 regarding the A planting or harvesting undertaken for the his address, the total number and species of birds current quality of waterfowl hunting opportunity. purpose of producing and gathering a crop or and the date such birds were killed. Migratory manipulation after such harvest and removal of game birds being transported in any vehicle as View them online at gfp.sd.gov/maps. grain, that is conducted in accordance with official the personal baggage of the possessor shall not Maps are updated on a weekly basis once the season begins and provides a good indicator of the recommendations of State Extension Specialists be considered as being in storage or temporary duck and goose activity for the upcoming weekend. of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. storage. Department of Agriculture. For the most current waterfowl population information, visit flyways.us. Transportation Normal agricultural operation Ship, convey, carry or transport by any means, BANDED WATERFOWL AND MOURNING DOVES A normal agricultural planting, harvesting, including delivery or receipt for such shipment, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourage hunters who bag banded waterfowl and mourning post-harvest manipulation or agricultural practice conveyance, carriage or transportation. doves to visit reportband.gov to report the band number and other important information. that is conducted in accordance with official recommendations of State Extension Specialists Transportation of birds of another of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. No person shall transport migratory game birds Department of Agriculture. belonging to another person unless such birds are tagged as required. Normal soil stabilization practice Respect the Past. A planting for agricultural soil erosion control or post-mining land reclamation conducted in Wanton waste of migratory game birds accordance with official recommendations of No person shall kill or cripple any migratory game bird without making a reasonable effort to Never Remove artifacts. State Extension Specialists of the Cooperative Extension Service of the U.S. Department of retrieve the bird and retain it in actual custody, at Agriculture for agricultural soil erosion control. the place where taken or between that place and either: Possession limit • That person’s automobile or principal The maximum number of migratory game means of land transportation; or birds of a single species or a combination of • That person’s personal abode or species permitted to be possessed by any one temporary or transient place of lodging; or person when lawfully taken in the United States • A migratory bird preservation facility; or in any one specified geographic area for which a • A post office; or possession limit is prescribed. • A common carrier facility.

Possession of live birds Termination of possession Every migratory game bird wounded by Subject to all other requirements of this part, Cultural resources provide an understanding and appreciation of South Dakota’s heritage. hunting and reduced to possession by the hunter the possession of birds taken by any hunter shall The removal of cultural resource artifacts from state Game, Fish and Parks managed land is shall be immediately killed and become a part of be deemed to have ceased when such birds have the daily bag limit. No person shall at any time or been delivered by him to another person as a gift; a violation of state and federal laws. by any means, possess or transport live migratory or have been delivered by him to a post office, a game birds taken under authority of this part. common carrier or a migratory bird preservation If you find an artifact, please leave it in its place and contact our Department Cultural facility and consigned for transport by the Resource Protection Officer at 605.668.2985. Please provide accurate information on where Take U.S.Postal Service or a common carrier to some Pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture person other than the hunter. the item or items were located. or collect; and includes attempting to do the same. help protect our cultural resources.

24 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 25 Big Game Tagging and Transportation another person to a wildlife processing facility if following receipt of each wild animal or clearly visible statement containing the following See Big Game Regulations. the bird is tagged with the name of the hunter, the • Allow any wild animal or parts thereof, to leave information: hunter’s address, the total number and species the facility without a receipt bearing the name • The name, address, and license number of the Domicile of birds taken, the date such bird was killed, and of the facility, number and species of wild person shipping the small game or waterfowl; A person’s established, fixed and permanent signature of the hunter. animals and name of the owner of each wild • The number and species of all small game home to which the person, whenever absent, has animal. and waterfowl in the container; the present intention of returning. Possession Limit However, the provisions of this section do • The date of shipment; and The maximum number of a particular species not apply to any permitted bird harvested on a • The name and address of the person to Game Bird Transportation and Packaging of game (excluding migratory game birds) that licensed shooting preserve and processed by the whom the small game or waterfowl has been No game bird, including a wild turkey, may be a person may lawfully have under their control preserve permittee. shipped. possessed, placed in public storage, transported (including those in their immediate possession, a or accepted for shipment unless the following portable cooler in the vehicle, a home freezer, or Inspection of Wildlife Processing Facilities Transportation Permits minimum requirements are met for each listed registered in their name at a wildlife processing No wildlife processing facility may prevent A person other than the licensee may species: facility/locker; or any combination thereof). Game any GFP representative from entering the facility transport small game with a transportation and • Waterfowl shall include an attached fully harvested during a previous season or year in during normal business hours and inspecting shipping permit. A permit may be obtained from feathered wing or an attached head; and South Dakota and still in possession counts any wild animal, records and the premises of the a conservation officer or a designee without a conform to other federal requirements (see toward the possession limit of the current license facility. charge. Follow these steps to obtain a permit: federal laws for migratory game birds). year. However, game (excluding migratory game • Contact a conservation officer or GFP Wildlife Pheasants and grouse, unless processed at a birds) lawfully harvested under another state’s Wildlife Processing Facility Division office to arrange a meeting place and wildlife processing facility and accompanied by license does not count towards the South Dakota A wildlife processing facility is any person or time. the receipt or at the domicile of the possessor, limit. entity that has a South Dakota sales tax license • All persons involved must meet with the officer shall include at least one of the following See Federal Laws for Migratory Game Birds on to operate a business that receives, possesses and bring their hunting licenses and game to attached: the head, a fully feathered wing or page 22-25. or has in custody any wild animal belonging to be transported. a foot. The term grouse includes sharp-tailed another person for purposes of picking, skinning, • Permits will not be issued before they are grouse, ruffed grouse and prairie chicken; Public Storage cleaning, freezing, processing or storage. needed. • Wild turkeys, unless processed at a wildlife No person may place into public storage any • Permits will not be issued as a means of processing facility and accompanied by the game bird, game fish or game animal unless the Shipping/Common Carrier exceeding the daily/possession limit or receipt, or at the domicile of the possessor, game bird, game fish or game animal has attached A licensed hunter may carry as personal circumventing plumage, transportation or shall include the attached leg and foot bearing to it a tag showing the owner’s name and address, baggage any small game or waterfowl lawfully shipping requirements. the tag issued with the license. Any person the number and kind of bird, fish or animal, the taken or possessed by that hunter. No person may • See “Federal Laws for Migratory Game Birds” who lawfully takes a wild turkey may remove date the bird, fish or animal is placed in storage, knowingly ship or receive for shipment by common for specific requirements for waterfowl and edible portions from the turkey while in the the date killed (for migratory game birds) and carrier any small game or waterfowl unless the other migratory game birds. field and transport providing the person also hunter signature (for migratory game birds). Public container containing the small game or waterfowl has in their possession the beard, leg and foot storage is any business storing game birds, game has affixed to the outside of the container a with the attached tag until the bird has arrived fish or game animals for a fee or a convenience at the domicile of the processor. Any person and has a South Dakota sales tax license. licensed to take “any turkey” is exempt from transporting the beard; Pheasant and Grouse Duck Records Required for Wildlife (or other migratory waterfowl) • All other game birds, unless processed at a Processing Facilities wildlife processing facility and accompanied by No wildlife processing facility shall: the receipt, or at the domicile of the possessor, • Receive or have in custody any wild animal shall include the attached head or an attached unless accurate records are maintained that fully-feathered wing. can identify each wild animal received by, If the head or wing is used for identification, it or in the custody of, the facility by the name shall have sufficient plumage attached to allow for of the person from whom the wild animal prompt identification of the game bird. Game birds, was obtained and show the number of each if frozen, shall be packaged no more than two per species; the date each wild animal was package in order to facilitate identification and received; the name and address of the owner count of species. of each wild animal; the date each wild animal No game bird may be transported by unlicensed was disposed of; and the name of the person individuals, unless accompanied by a valid or business to whom each wild animal was transportation permit issued by the department. delivered or Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 1 Option 2 However, at the conclusion of hunting a licensed • Destroy records required to be maintained Fully feathered Fully feathered One leg Fully feathered Fully feathered hunter may transport a game bird legally taken by under this section for a period of one year head attached wing attached and foot attached head attached wing attached

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Daily Possession FURBEARER SEASONS u Species Dates Open Area Limit Limit Species Dates v Open Areas *Mourning Dove u Sept. 1 - Nov. 9 15 45 Statewide Mink, Weasel Nov. 2 - Jan. 31 Statewide *Common Snipe v Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 5 15 Statewide West River except the Black Hills Fire Protection West River Year-round *Sandhill Crane w Sept. 28 - Nov. 24 3 9 w District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 Black Hills Fire Protection District south of I-90 and Crow x Unlimited Statewide Black Hills Nov. 2 - April 30 March 1 - April 30 Muskrat west of SD Hwy 79 Tundra Swan y Sept. 28 - Jan. 10 One per license y East River Nov. 2 - April 30 East River w Prairie Dog z Year-round Unlimited Statewide z Shooting April 1 - Aug. 31 Statewide w Cottontail Rabbit { Sept. 1 - Feb. 29 10 30 Statewide West River except U.S. Forest Service land within the West River Year-round Black Hills Fire Protection District south of I-90 and Tree Squirrel Sept. 1 - Feb. 29 5 15 Statewide west of SD Hwy 79 Ground Squirrel, Gopher, Year-round Unlimited Statewide U.S. Forest Service land within the Black Hills Fire Porcupine, Marmot Jan. 1 - March 31 Beaver Protection District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 SHOOTING HOURS: Sunrise to sunset for all species listed except mourning dove, Sandhill crane and Black Hills Non-U. S. Forest Service land within the Black Hills Fire tundra swan which is 30 minutes before sunrise to sunset and crow, prairie dog, ground squirrel, gopher, Nov. 2 - April 30 Protection District south of I-90 and west of SD Hwy 79 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 East River Nov. 2 - April 30 East River snipe. South Dakota State Migratory Bird Certification is still mandatory. West River Dec. 26 - Feb.15 West River Bobcat Buffalo, Brule, Clay, Charles Mix, Bon Homme, Hughes, uMourning Dove Restrictions. A person: East River x Dec. 26 - Jan. 19 • May not shoot a mourning dove unless the bird is flying. Hutchinson, Hyde, Union and Yankton Counties. • May not hunt mourning doves with a shotgun capable of holding more than three shells. Red and Grey Fox, Badger, • May not hunt mourning doves in a state park or recreation area, except that portion of Angostura State Raccoon, Skunk, Opossum, Year-round Statewide Recreation Area lying west of the dam. Jackrabbit, Coyote y • Removed the restriction to hunt mourning doves within 50 yards of a public road. Mourning dove hunting is still z Closed prohibited within road rights-of-way. Wolf NOTE: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service encourage hunters who bag banded doves to visit reportband.gov to report u may take only raccoon, beaver and muskrat from Dec. 7 - March 15, and bobcats from the band number and other important information. Nonresidents Jan. 11 - Feb. 15. Mink and weasel may be trapped from Dec. 7 - Jan. 31. Nonresidents may not use dogs to aid in taking raccoon. vCommon Snipe. Hunters must use non-toxic shot to hunt snipe. v Seasons begin at sunrise of opening day and end at sunset of closing day. w Open area is that portion of South Dakota lying west of a line beginning at the South Dakota- Sandhill Crane. w Muskrat Restrictions. North Dakota border and SD Hwy 25, south on SD Hwy 25 to its junction with SD Hwy 34, east on SD Hwy 34 to • No trapping on or in muskrat houses of any size after March 15. its junction with U.S Hwy 81, then south on U.S Hwy 81 to the South Dakota-Nebraska border. Hunters must use • Only landowners and lessees, including SD School and Public land surface lease holders, on land they own or non-toxic shot. 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 x Crow. Electronic calls and rifles are legal to hunt crows. equipment, or shotguns with non-toxic shot are allowed. yTundra Swan. Only hunters who applied for and received a license through the License Office are eligible to x Bobcat. Hunters/trappers are restricted to one bobcat per hunter/trapper in the open areas in East River. 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, y Coyote. In addition to a valid resident license, a free access permit is required for coyote hunting in Custer Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes, Hyde, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Marshall, McCook, McPherson, Miner, Minnehaha, State Park (Season dates: Dec. 26 - March 31). Moody, Potter, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Sully and Walworth. Federal laws apply. z Wolf. Wolves are currently protected under the Endangered Species Act. 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 NOTE: For additional restrictions see page 30-32. 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.

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Barbed Hooks Colony Traps Snares may not be set within fenced pastures, attached by the swivel directly to the anchoring Barbed hooks or other similarly sharpened The size of colony traps for muskrats may cropland, feedlots or fenced areas containing device or by chain or cable between the swivel instruments may not be used to take furbearing not exceed 36 inches in overall length. If using a domestic livestock without permission of the and the anchoring device. The swivel may not animals. round colony trap, the diameter cannot exceed 12 landowner or the operator. be more than four inches long and must operate inches. If using a box colony trap, the height may A person must have a permit issued by the park freely when set. Attaching snares to a drag is Bobcat Carcasses not exceed 12 inches nor may the width exceed 12 manager to trap in a state park or recreation area. prohibited. Exempt from the above restriction that Any person harvesting a bobcat must submit inches. The free permits are valid Nov. 1 - Mar. 31. requires the use of a permanent stop are snares the entire carcass, along with the detached pelt, to Permission is required from the landowner that have a lock or device with a breaking strength GFP personnel within five days of capture. Once Flagging for trapping on private land leased for public of 350 pounds of pressure or less. Trappers who the season has closed, an individual has 24 hours No person may flag, mark or attempt to claim hunting in the Walk-In Area program, controlled use these types of snares must submit the snare to notify a conservation officer or wildlife damage a muskrat house on public lands or waters Hunting and Access Program (CHAP) and the for breaking strength testing if requested by a GFP specialist of any untagged bobcats harvested before sunrise on opening day of the trapping Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program representative. during the season. The pelt will be inspected, season. After the season is open, marking of (CREP). It is unlawful to possess or transport snares tagged and registered. The lower jaw will be muskrat houses is legal if the house contains an not properly equipped, except manufacturers removed from the carcass. The tagged pelt will operational trap set. Pole Traps may obtain a free Shipping and Transportation be returned. The carcass may be returned upon Furbearer Possession, Live No person may set or allow to be set any trap, Permit from a GFP conservation officer to ship request. No person may possess, purchase or sell snare or similar device on a pole or post in a or transport snares to another area that does not raw bobcat pelts that are not legally tagged. Possession of live furbearers is prohibited except that no more than one live furbearer manner that a raptor may be captured, injured or require the same equipment as South Dakota. Body Grip Traps (commonly known as (either a raccoon, jackrabbit, skunk, red or grey killed. Snares are prohibited May 1 - Nov. 13 on conibears) fox or coyote) per household may be kept as improved road rights-of-way and on all public lands Body grip traps with a jaw spread greater than a pet. In addition, the Animal Industry Board Protected Animals statewide. No snare with a spring or other device eight inches are permitted only as water sets. All requires a permit to keep mammals including No person may take wolf, pine (American) that applies pressure to the locking mechanism of the bottom surface of these traps must remain certain furbearers. For details, contact the Animal marten, black-footed ferret, swift fox, fisher, river (commonly referred to as: kill springs, choke completely below the water’s edge for beaver Industry Board at 605.773.3321. No pet furbearer otter or black bear. If any of these protected springs, compression springs, dispatch springs, year-round West River, except in the Black Hills may be physically altered except skunks may species are accidentally caught the animal must ram snares, or similar devices) may be place on Fire Protection District. be descented. Sale or purchase of a pet wild be released alive. If the animal is found dead, it a Game Production Area or Waterfowl Production On all public lands and road rights-of-way furbearer is prohibited. must be left undisturbed in the snare or trap and a Area unless the snare is placed below the surface statewide, no person may set or operate a body GFP representative contacted within 12 hours. of the water or ice. 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, Raw Furs Trap Checking inches (i.e. larger than a 160 conibear) unless: a furbearer taken from the wild must either be Raw furs may be kept after the close of each Traps, including snares, must be checked prior • The trap is recessed in a plastic, wood, or metal released or immediately and humanely killed. 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) cubby a minimum of seven inches from the front Landowners east of the Missouri River and prior to midnight edge of the cubby to the trigger of the trap; or A resident of South Dakota may catch, trap or Restrictions of the third full calendar day west of the Missouri • The trap is set below the water’s edge of a kill furbearing animals upon land owned or leased Except in Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and River. Any animal caught must be removed. stream, river, or other body of water. without obtaining a license to do so, during any Stanley counties where these laws do not apply for Traps or snares entirely submerged in the water NOTE: A single overhang on the top of the cubby period when hunting, catching, taking, trapping or muskrats, no person may: and remain set beneath ice must be checked and does not meet this recess requirement. killing such animals is permitted. • Hunt mink or muskrats with dogs. any caught animals removed prior to midnight of Catches Out of Season Live Mammals or Birds • Dig or disturb a mink den or beaver house to the fifth full calendar day statewide. A trapper must immediately release any live The use of any live mammal or live bird to aid capture mink or beaver, or use poison, gas or wild animal found in a trap or snare at a time when in the taking of a furbearing animal, predator or smoke to kill or capture these animals. Trap Removals the established season is closed. Any trapper who varmint by a trap or snare is prohibited. • Spear muskrat. If traps including snares are not being checked finds a dead wild animal in a trap or snare out of • Destroy a muskrat house, except that in open within the required trap check period, traps shall season must leave the animal undisturbed in the Permission Required season a house may be opened in a manner be rendered inoperable and snares shall be closed trap or snare and contact a GFP representative No person may attach a trap, including snares, that will not destroy or damage it as a place of to their permanent stop, or closed to less than within 12 hours. to any part of a fence along road rights-of-way habitation. 2-1/2 inches if not equipped with a permanent adjacent to private land without permission from stop. All traps and snares (set or unset), stakes, Closed Areas the adjoining landowner. Snares cables, chains, wires, or other devices used for Federal refuges, national monuments, state No person, except the adjoining landowner or Snares must have a mechanical lock, swivel the purpose of attaching a trap or snare must be game refuges, or privately owned areas within a person receiving written permission from the device on the anchor end and stop device to removed from public lands and improved road such lands are closed to hunting and trapping of adjoining landowner, may trap on public road prohibit the restraint loop from closing to a rights-of-way prior to May 1 of each year, except furbearers. rights-of-way within 660 feet of a home, church or diameter less than 2-1/2 inches. Snares must be live traps may be used until August 31. schoolhouse.

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The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate Trapping in State Parks Water Sets with states, through their respective fish and game departments, for wildlife restoration projects. A person must have a permit issued by the park Traps (except any live cage trap or live box trap, States must meet federal standards for the conservation of wildlife; which includes a prohibition against manager to trap in a State Park or Recreation snares and traps designed specifically to catch the diversion of license fees paid by hunters for any other purpose than the administration of the state Area (Custer State Park, Adams Homestead and raccoons such as coon cuffs and egg traps) cannot fish and game department. Funds are collected through excise taxes on firearms, ammunition, archery Nature Preserve in Union County and Beaver be placed or set in water or within 30 feet of water equipment and other hunting-related items. Creek Nature Area in Minnehaha County are from Oct. 1 to the opening of the mink season. States must provide a 25 percent match to requested funds. The Pittman-Robertson funding allocation closed to trapping). The free permits are valid Nov. However, body-grip traps may be set below the in 2019 totaled $11,599,587. In 2019, South Dakota allocated funds to programs listed in the below chart. 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 Land Management (45%) 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), Hunter Education (7%) Trap Vandalism stake, cable, chain, wire or other device used Wildlife Survey | Research | Management (20%) 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 Walk-in Area Program (28%) 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 2019 big game seasons 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 Big Game Licenses are issued by application. Season regulations accompany licenses. All elk, bighorn sheep, or fish with or without skin, hide or feathers. mountain lion, mountain goat and Custer State Park seasons are resident only. See gfp.sd.gov/hunt ANTELOPE Statewide Mountain Lion: Year-round outside of the Black Hills Fire Protection District. Archery Antelope: Aug. 17 - Oct. 31 WOLF IDENTIFICATION • Closed during firearms season ELK Sept. 28 - Oct. 13 Wolves are currently federally protected under the Endangered Species Act. As of Dec. 23, 2014, Firearm Antelope: Black Hills Firearms Elk harvesting gray wolves through recreational hunting or trapping across South Dakota is prohibited. DEER • Any Elk tags are valid Oct. 1 - 31 However, an endangered species, such as the gray wolf, may be taken in defense of human life. Mentored/ Apprentice Season: • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H1B, H4B, H7B Sept. 14 - Jan. 1 and H9B are valid Oct. 15 - 31 and Dec. 1 - 16 Archery: Sept. 1 - Jan. 1 • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H2B, H2E, H2H, East River Deer: Nov. 23 - Dec. 8 H3B and H3E are valid Oct. 15 - 31 • Only antlerless tags valid Dec. 14 - 22 • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H2C, H2F, H2I, West River Deer: Nov. 16 - Dec. 1 H3C and H3F are valid Dec. 1 - 16 • Unit 30A, Nov. 9 - 12 and Nov. 25 - Dec. 1 • Antlerless Elk tags for Units H2D, H2G, H2J, • Only antlerless tags valid Dec. 14 - 22 H3D and H3G are valid Dec. 17 - 31

Black Hills Deer: Nov. 1 - 30 Prairie Firearms Elk Custer State Park Deer: • Unit 09A, Sept. 15 - Oct. 31 and Dec. 1 - 31 • Any Deer and Any Whitetail Deer licenses: Nov. • Unit 11A, July 15 - Aug. 31 1 - 30 • Unit 11B, Sept. 1 - Oct. 19 • Archery only Nov. 1 - 15 • Unit 11C, Oct. 20 - Nov. 30 Refuge Deer: (see application for various • Unit 11D, Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 WOLF COYOTE start dates for Sand Lake, Lacreek and Waubay • Unit 15A, Sept. 1 - Oct. 31 and Dec. 1 - 31 • 2.5 feet tall • 1.5 feet tall National Wildlife Refuges) • Unit 27A, Oct. 1 - 31 and Dec. 1 - 31 Muzzleloader Deer: Dec. 1 - Jan. 1 • Unit 35A, Sept. 15 - Oct. 31 and Dec. 1-31 • 5-6 feet long • 4 feet long Black Hills Archery Elk • 70-120 pounds • 30-40 pounds MISCELLANEOUS • Sept. 1 - 30 • Broad snout • Narrow snout Black Hills Bighorn Sheep: Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 Custer State Park Archery Early Elk • Round ears • Pointed ears Badlands Bighorn Sheep: Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 • Sept. 1 - 30 Sept. 1 - Dec. 31 • Color light gray to black • Color light gray to brown Black Hills Mountain Goat: Custer State Park Firearms Any Elk Fall Turkey: Nov. 1 - Jan. 31 • Track 4.5 inches wide and 5.5 inches long • Track 2.5 inches wide and 2-2.5 inches long • Oct. 1 - 31 Black Hills Mountain Lion (within Black • Claws evident • Claws evident Hills Fire Protection District): Dec. 26 - March 31 or closed if the harvest limit of 60 mountain lions or 40 female mountain lions is reached prior to March 31.

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The following is a synopsis of big game regulations. Other rules applicable to big game hunting may be found in centerfire or muzzleloading rifle during the spring Personal Property on Public Land other sections of this handbook. Big game regulations are also available on gfp.sd.gov turkey season. Other shoulder-held firearms using A person may not leave any property after 11:00 ammunition that is factory-rated to produce at p.m. on public lands owned, leased, or controlled Tag Definitions Dog Use While Hunting Big Game least 700 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle and by GFP or in the water adjoining such an area, or Any Deer - whitetail or mule deer buck, doe or fawn. No one may use a dog for hunting big game, handguns using ammunition which is factory-rated within the right-of-way of the George S. Mickelson Antlerless Deer/Elk - deer/elk of either sex without except for the following: to produce at least 500 foot-pounds of energy at Trail unless that person is legally camped, lodged, visible antler. • A dog that is leashed and under the control of a the muzzle may be used in the hunting of wild or fishing or the property is located in a leased handler may be used to track and retrieve any big turkeys. Buckshot is prohibited. Doe/Fawn Antelope - antelope of either sex without space designated for the specified use of that game animal that is wounded or presumed dead. Muzzleloading Firearms: In seasons restricted horns or with horns less than three inches in length. property. A person may not leave any fish houses • The use of dogs to hunt mountain lions is only to muzzleloading firearms, telescopic sights are for more than five days on lands owned, leased, or Any Turkey - wild turkey of either sex. allowed during those specified hunting intervals not allowed. Telescopic sights are those sights that controlled by GFP without written permission from Male Turkey - wild turkey with a visible beard/spurs. in Custer State Park that allow for the use of dogs utilize magnification. No person may hunt, shoot, an authorized representative of the department. Hen Turkey - wild turkey without a visible beard/spurs. and outside of the Black Hills Fire Protection shoot at, wound, kill or pursue any big game The provisions of this section do not apply to District on private land with permission of the animal with any muzzle loading rifle which is less legally placed tree stands, elevated platforms, Archery Equipment Restrictions: landowner or lessee. However, a pursuit of a than .44 caliber. Muzzleloading handguns must portable blinds, trail cameras, or trapping A person hunting with bow and arrow may not use mountain lion by dogs that originates on private discharge a projectile of .50 caliber or larger. equipment. or possess any of the following: land may cross over or culminate on property NOTE: Hunters filling big game tags that are Except for legal tree stands, portable blinds, • Explosive, poisonous, hydraulic or pneumatic owned by the Office of School and Public Lands not restricted to archery or muzzleloaders may trail cameras and trapping equipment all personal points; or the United States Bureau of Land Management use any of the weapons described under “Legal property must be removed from lands managed Firearms” or “Archery” or any combination of • Crossbows and draw-lock devices that hold the other than the Fort Meade Recreation Area by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by the end of weapons. Additionally, a person who holds a Big bow at partial or full draw except for persons each day. with qualifying disabilities; Fluorescent Orange Game License to take a big game animal during • Electronic devices mounted to the bow that Any person hunting any big game animal, except the firearm season may take the animal by using a Prohibited Felons crossbow in lieu of a firearm. The crossbow shall aid in the taking of game. However, cameras, turkey or mountain lion, with a firearm shall wear in An individual who has a felony conviction might a visible manner one or more fluorescent orange have at least 125 pounds pull and have a working video cameras, cell phones used exclusively be prohibited from possessing a firearm by state exterior garments. The exterior garment shall be mechanical safety. for photographic purposes, lighted sight pins a hat, cap, shirt, jacket, vest, coverall, or poncho or federal law. According to state law the term and illuminated arrow nocks may be used; “firearm” now includes any antique firearm and worn above the waist. Nonlicensees/Accompaniment • Electronic arrow or electronic string releases; any muzzleloading rifle, muzzleloading shotgun All Big Game Licensees • Telescopic sights; or muzzleloading pistol, including muzzleloading Legal Firearms No person possessing a firearm, including a • An arrow without a broadhead (fixed or weapons that are designed to use black powder No self-loading or auto-loading firearm that muzzleloading firearm or a bow and arrow may mechanical) that has at least two metal cutting or a black powder substitute and cannot use fixed holds more than six cartridges may be used to accompany a big game hunter in the field or edges when hunting big game animals. ammunition. hunt, pursue, shoot at, shoot, kill or wound any big cooperate as part of a big game hunting group However, an arrow tipped with any point may game animal. No firearm that is capable of being be possessed when used for practice; unless the accompanying person possesses Restrictions operated as a full automatic may be used to hunt, a Big Game License that is valid for the same • A bow measuring less than 40 pounds pull shoot, shoot at, wound, kill or pursue any big game No one may discharge a firearm, muzzleloader, when hunting an elk; geographic area and time of year as the licensee. crossbow or bow and arrow at any big game or small game animal. Shotguns must discharge a The provisions of this section do not apply to a • A bow measuring less than 30 pounds pull single ball or rifled slug weighing at least one-half animal, except turkey may be taken with a shotgun person who is legally licensed to hunt small game when hunting big game animals other than elk. ounce. Buckshot is prohibited. using shot shells or with a bow and arrow, from or exempt from license requirements and hunting within the rights-of-way of an improved highway Bowhunter Education Deer, Antelope, Mountain Lion: Shoulder-held firearms using ammunition rated to produce at only with a shotgun using shotshells. No person including gravel township roads. The National Bowhunter Education Foundation least 1,000 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle hunting small game and accompanying a licensed No one may discharge a firearm or other certificate is not required for resident or non-resident and handguns using ammunition that is rated to firearm big game hunter in the field may use weapon across or from a Black Hills National archery licensees, however online and in person produce at least 500 foot-pounds of energy at the dogs while accompanying the big game hunter. Forest System road. bowhunter education is still available for those muzzle, may be used to hunt deer, antelope and Archery-Only Big Game Licensee No person may place any salt or salt lick wanting to learn more about archery. All big game mountain lion. Only soft-point or expanding bullets No person who is licensed in a season or construct, occupy or use any screen, blind, archery licensees under age 16 must possess a are permitted. Shotguns must discharge a single restricted to archery only may: scaffold or other device at or near any salt or salt hunter safety education certificate. ball or rifled slug weighing at least one-half ounce. • Possess a firearm in the field while hunting big lick for the purpose of enticing or baiting big game Buckshot is prohibited. game with bow and arrow, except a person animals to the same for the purpose of hunting, Concealed Pistol Elk: It is illegal to use firearms that produce less who possesses a firearms big game license watching for or killing big game. No firearm restrictions in place for any hunting than 1,700 foot-pounds of energy at the muzzle that is valid for the same geographic area No one may establish, utilize or maintain a bait season prohibit a licensee from otherwise lawfully and that are smaller than .243 caliber to hunt elk. and time of year as the archery license OR a station from Aug. 15 - Feb. 1, inclusive and from carrying a pistol while hunting. Only soft point or expanding bullets are permitted. person who is lawfully carrying a pistol. Decoys March 15 - May 31, inclusive, to attract any big Buckshot is prohibited. game animal (including turkey). A bait station is a Decoys may be used for big game hunting. Turkey: A person may not use a rimfire,

34 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 35 2019 big game regulations 2019 big game regulations location where grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, hay, 1. Around one hind leg between the hoof and the items in transport were lawfully possessed. March 31, inclusive. Portable blinds may also be minerals (including salt) or any other natural food ankle joint; Big game taken in another state or with a tribal used during the spring turkey seasons by licensed materials, commercial products containing natural 2. Around the hock tendon directly above the license must be properly tagged when transported spring turkey hunters. One screw-in “T” may be used food materials or by-products of such materials are ankle joint on one hind leg; or within South Dakota. If no tag was issued, the to stabilize a tree stand. Removable screw-in steps placed or maintained as an attractant to big game 3. Around the base of the antler or person in possession of the animal must provide may be used to access a tree stand. The name and animals for the purpose of hunting. The use of horn. proof the animal was lawfully taken. address OR the year and current applicable big scents alone does not constitute a bait station. The Tagging allows a big game animal to be Trail Cameras on GFP Lands game license number of the owner or user must bait station restriction does not apply to foods that transported and stored by the hunter or another Any trail camera placed on public lands owned, be on the exterior of an unoccupied portable blind have not been placed or gathered by an individual person for the hunter. leased, or controlled by GFP may be attached and legible from the ground on a tree stand. Other and result from normal environmental conditions No one may lend a license or tag to another to a tree, post, or other structure by utilizing no elevated platform devices that are not attached to or accepted farming, forest management, wildlife or knowingly issue or aid in securing a license or more than one nail, bolt, or screw. The name a tree must meet the requirements of this rule for food plantings, orchard management or similar preference point for any person not legally entitled and address of the owner or user OR the year permitted dates and for labeling if left overnight or land management activities. Individuals are to it. and current applicable big game license number unattended. A properly labeled tree stand on GFP exempt from the bait station requirements while No person may possess in the field or transport of the owner or user must be on the exterior of land is privately owned property. participating in any research or depredation a big game animal (including boned out meat), an unattended trail camera. A trail camera is a The use of nails, wires, screws, bolts or screw-in management activities directed by GFP. except turkey, unless it is accompanied by the remotely activated device set to capture photos, steps is prohibited on National Wildlife Refuges and No person may establish, utilize or maintain animal’s lawfully tagged leg along with either the video, sound, or other evidence of activity while the Waterfowl Production Areas, both managed by the a bait station on lands owned by the GFP and animal’s head or a hind quarter with the visible user is absent from the location. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. on properties managed and classified by GFP external sex organs left naturally attached to it. Contact Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge for as Game Production Areas, State Parks, State Any person licensed to take any deer, any elk Tree Stands/Portable Blinds on Public Land specifics on placement of deer stands within the Recreation Areas, State Lakeside Use Areas, or any antelope is exempt from transporting the Construction or use of permanent tree stands, Refuge. Call 605.885.6320 or visit fws.gov/sandlake. State Nature Areas or State Water Access Areas. animal’s head or hind quarter with attached sex permanent blinds, and climbing devices are Turkey Hunting Restriction organs if the lawfully tagged leg accompanies the prohibited on lands owned, leased, or controlled Additionally, the distribution of bait and hunting animal for such license. However, the provisions of No turkey may be shot in a tree or roost. Lead by GFP. Portable tree stands, portable blinds, and shot is legal for turkey hunting on all public lands. over bait is prohibited on U.S. Fish and Wildlife this section do not apply to a Big Game Licensee climbing devices that do not utilize nails, wire, or Service Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA). who transports big game parts (including boned bolts for attachment are allowed from August 1 - No one may use an electronic call when hunting out meat) from the licensee’s domicile to another big game (including turkey). Electronic calls are location if the licensee possesses the big game allowed for mountain lion hunting. tag or Big Game License entitling the licensee to No one may kill a big game animal not in the animal or to big game that has been cooked or season or kill a big game animal in season and not cured, by means other than freezing, for personal tag and claim the animal. consumption. If a person other than licensee LEGALLY TAGGING AND TRANSPORTING DEER transports big game animal parts (including boned When do I tag my deer? Shooting Hours meat) from the licensee’s domicile to another The locking seal issued with each big game license, swan license, or special Canada goose license All firearms and archery big game shooting location, the tagged leg or a transportation permit is an adhesive tag. The licensee shall sign the tag and date it by cutting out completely the month hours (except turkey) are 30 minutes before must accompany the items being transported. and day of the date of kill only. The licensee shall attach the tag securely around one leg of a sunrise to 30 minues after sunset. Shooting hours Wild turkeys, unless processed at a wildlife mountain lion, turkey, swan, or goose. The licensee shall attach the tag securely to all hoofed big for turkey season are 30 minutes before sunrise to processing facility and accompanied by the receipt, game animals: sunset. or at the domicile of the processor, shall include the 1. Around one hind leg between the hoof and ankle joint; attached leg and foot bearing the tag issued with 2. Around the hock tendon directly above the ankle joint on one hind leg; or Tagging and Transportation the license. Any person who lawfully takes a wild 3. Around the base of the antler or horn. The tag you receive with your license must be turkey may remove edible portions from the turkey How do I transport my deer from the field? signed, dated and securely attached to the leg while in the field and transport providing the person The deer (including boned out meat) must be accompanied by the animal’s lawfully tagged of the big game animal at the time it is brought also has in their possession the beard, leg and foot leg along with either the animal’s head or a hind quarter with the visible external sex organs to a road or into any hunting camp, farmyard or with the attached tag until the bird has arrived at left naturally attached to it. However, a person with an any deer license must only provide the residence or before it is placed in or on a vehicle. the domicile of the processor. Any person licensed lawfully tagged leg that accompanies the animal for such license. The locking seal issued with each Big Game to take “any turkey” is exempt from transporting the Can I transport a deer for another person? License is an adhesive tag. The licensee shall beard. Tagging allows a deer to be transported and stored by the hunter or for the hunter. If a person sign the tag and date it by cutting out completely If someone other than the licensed hunter is other than licensee transports deer parts (including boned meat) from the licensee’s domicile to the month and day of the the date of kill only. The transporting big game parts (antlers, hide and etc.) another location, the tagged leg OR a transportation permit must accompany the items being licensee shall attach the tag securely around one to a taxidermist, the parts must be accompanied by transported. leg of a mountain lion, turkey, swan, or goose. The the tagged leg or appropriate documentation that What do I need to transport my deer from my domicile to the taxidermist or processor? licensee shall attach the tag securely to all hoofed would allow a conservation officer to determine that You must carry the big game tag or Big Game License entitling you to the animal. big game animals:

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Hunting on Public Road Rights-of-Way NOTE: Fences are sometimes not on a rights-of- Artificial Light sunrise from Sept. 1 to Jan. 31. During this time Laws and rules governing trespass and motor vehicles way boundary and sometimes there is no fence. During the time from sunset to sunrise, no frame, a person who has no weapons in possession are complex. The laws may be simplified if the hunter Most section line rights-of-way are 66 feet wide. person may use or possess night-vision equipment may only use their vehicle headlights to spot or remembers to hunt only on foot during established Some acquired rights-of-way are wider. or throw or cast the rays of a spotlight, headlight, locate wild animals. Hand-held spotlights and other seasons, to ask permission to enter private land and not • Hunters can take only small game (except or other artificial light on any highway, or in any lights otherwise attached to the vehicle are not legal. to drive on state and federal lands. It is also advisable to mourning doves) and waterfowl within the field, pasture, woodland, forest, or prairie, for the The three exceptions to this law are the same as restrict vehicular travel in wet weather when roads, trails, rights-of-way on foot. The hunter must be purpose of spotting, locating, taking or attempting those found under “Artificial Light” above. rangeland and cropland could be damaged and in dry within the rights-of-way and the game must to take or hunt any animal while having in Boating Restrictions conditions when fire danger is high. originate from the road rights-of-way or be possession or control any firearm, bow or other Hunters and trappers must follow all state and flying over the rights-of-way. implement whereby any game could be killed. federal boating regulations when operating boats ATTENTION DOG OWNERS: Hunters who hunt road • The person must park or stop their vehicle However: on public waters in South Dakota. Those using rights-of-way should understand they must maintain as far to the right-hand side of the road as • A person may use a hand held light while on a boat for hunting or trapping purposes should control of their hunting dogs at all times. Dog owners possible. foot, to take raccoons after they have been verify they have all required boating equipment on who allow their animals to remain on private property • If the person who discharges a firearm is more treed by dogs; board and their vessel is currently and properly without landowner permission for the purpose of flushing than 50 yards from the vehicle, the doors on • A landowner or occupant and no more than licensed. game birds may be subject to trespassing charges. Dogs the side of the vehicle nearest the roadway two guests accompanied by the landowner or The 2019 South Dakota Boating Handbook is may be used in the unarmed retrieval of lawfully taken must be closed, but the engine may remain occupant may use an artificial light and night available from regional wildlife offices and from waterfowl and small game birds from private property. running. vision equipment on the owner’s or occupant’s county treasurer offices or online at: However, under no circumstances may dogs be used to • If the person who discharges a firearm is less land, with a shotgun using shot shells only or a gfp.sd.gov/pages/regulations. intentionally flush birds from private property to hunters in than 50 yards from the vehicle, all of the doors firearm using a rimfire cartridge in the taking of The following list includes water bodies in South the road rights-of-way. of the vehicle must be closed and the engine jackrabbits, coyotes, beaver during its hunting Dakota with boating or boat motor restrictions that shall be turned off. season, foxes, raccoons, opossums, badgers, may impact hunters and trappers. On waters with Road rights-of-way, excluding the Interstate • It is NOT legal to shoot small game and skunks, or rodents; motor restrictions, boats with motors exceeding highway system, are open for the hunting of waterfowl that takes flight from rights-of-way • A landowner or occupant, 18 years of age the maximum horsepower can be operated with small game and waterfowl (see Mourning Dove, over a Federal Refuge or Tribal lands. If a or older, and no more than two guests alternate motors under the maximum horsepower. Youth Pheasant and Resident-Only Pheasant state-licensed hunter shoots at a bird across accompanied by the landowner or occupant A complete listing of public water safety zones by seasons for special road hunting restrictions). Only the fence on either of these lands, the hunter may use night vision equipment on the county may be found online at: legis.sd.gov. the owner of the occupied dwelling, church, or may be subject to federal arrest. owner’s or occupant’s land, with a firearm • Aurora County: Wilmarth Lake, no wake zone. schoolhouse; the owner of livestock; or a person • Small game and waterfowl taken from the using a cartridge with a bullet diameter below • Beadle County: Staum Dam, no wake zone. who has written permission from the owner of the rights-of-way but falling onto private property .225 inches, in the taking of jackrabbits, • Bon Homme County: Lake Henry, no wake occupied dwelling, church, or schoolhouse, or the can be retrieved by unarmed hunters on foot. coyotes, beaver during its hunting season, zone. owner of the livestock may use such highways or • No person may discharge a firearm, foxes, raccoons, opossums, badgers, skunks, • Brown County: Willow Dam Wildlife rights-of-way for the purposes of discharging any muzzleloader, crossbow or bow and arrow or rodents; and Management Area, no motor boats or motor firearm or for the purposes of hunting within a 660 at any big game animal, except turkey to be • A landowner or occupant, 18 years of age vehicles; Putney Slough Game Production Area, foot safety zone surrounding an occupied dwelling, taken with a shotgun using shot shells or with or older, may issue written permission to no boating Oct. 20 - Dec. 31 in Secs. 7, 8, 17 a church, schoolhouse, or livestock. No other a bow and arrow, from within the rights-of-way no more than two guests who may hunt and 18 in T124N, R61W. person may discharge a firearm at small game of an improved public highway. unaccompanied by the landowner or occupant. • Clark County: Reid Lake, no boating Oct. 20 within the safety zone. • A person may not discharge a firearm or Any unaccompanied guest may use night - Dec. 31. The rights-of-way along a section line or other weapon across or from any Black Hills vision equipment on the owner’s or occupant’s • Codington County: McKilligan Lake, no other highway are open for hunting if: National Forest system road. land, with a firearm using a cartridge with boating during waterfowl seasons; Horseshoe • The rights-of-way have been commonly • Any person who, while hunting road rights-of- a bullet diameter below .225 inches, in Lake, no motors during waterfowl seasons; used by the public for vehicular travel, as way, negligently endangers another person the taking of jackrabbits, coyotes, beaver Blythe Slough in portions of Secs. 27 and 28 of demonstrated by the existence of a well-worn or puts that person in fear of imminent during its hunting season, foxes, raccoons, T117N, R55W, no boating from March 1 - Aug. vehicle trail. serious bodily harm, is guilty of a Class 1 opossums, badgers, skunks, or rodents. 31. • An intentional alteration or adaptation has misdemeanor. Night-vision equipment includes thermal imaging • Custer County: Sylvan and Legion lakes been made to the rights-of-way to enhance equipment and is an optical device utilizing light electric motors only; Center Lake, no wake the natural terrain’s utility for vehicular travel amplifying circuits that are electrical or battery zone. or to permit vehicular travel where it was not powered. • Day County: Hillebrand’s and Spring lakes possible before. Recreational Artificial Light Law and Swan Pond, no boating; Blue Dog Lake on To minimize disturbance to wildlife and rural waters fronting the Lakeside Use Area starting residents, state law prohibits a person from using an at east property boundary and extending 300 artificial light other than headlights to spot or locate feet west along shore in a no wake zone. any wild animal between the hours of 10 p.m. and • Deuel County: Lake Oliver, no wake zone.

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• Fall River County: Cold Brook and Cottonwood and 23 and Secs. 26 and 27, T106N, R66W, no Park or monument, except as otherwise and when hunting big game except for mountain reservoirs, electric motors only motors Oct. 20 - Dec. 31. provided for in season regulations. lion. Turkeys are considered big game. • Hand County: Wall Lake, no motors during Civil Damage Liability Dog Training Falconry - General waterfowl seasons. Violations of most big game regulations are A person may hunt by falconry in South Dakota • Hanson County: Hanson Lake, no wake zone No person may kill or capture any wild game Class 1 misdemeanors, punishable by fine and/ birds while training or running a dog except during if they have been issued a falconry permit by when lake elevation is 12” or greater over the or imprisonment and mandatory loss of hunting their state of residence and have obtained the spillway elevation. open seasons. Using pen-raised birds to train dogs privileges for one year. In addition to criminal is permitted with certain restrictions: appropriate South Dakota hunting licenses. Non- • Hughes County: Hipple Lake west of the buoy, penalties, a person taking or killing big game migratory game birds and game animals may be electric motors only. illegally may be assessed civil damages in the • No person may train dogs on wild game birds from April 15 - July 31 statewide. From Aug. 1 hunted Sept. 1 - March 31. Migratory game birds • Hutchinson County: Silver Lake, no boating amount of $100 for each game bird, $200 for each through the Friday preceding the third Saturday may be hunted only in accordance with state and during fall and spring waterfowl seasons; turkey, $1,000 for each non-trophy deer, non-trophy antelope or bobcat, $5,000 for each non-trophy in September, a person may train a dog for the federal migratory game bird season regulations Dimock, Tripp and Menno lakes, no wake zone. purpose of locating, pursuing or pointing wild for 107 days beginning no earlier than Sept. 1 and • Lake County: Long Lake, no wake zone elk, mountain lion or buffalo and $10,000 for each mountain goat or bighorn sheep. game birds on publicly-owned land or on road ending by Jan. 15. The daily bag limit is three and except during July and August; the water of rights-of-way with the following restrictions: the possession limit is six of game species in the Sunset Harbor, including the entrance canal, no Cases involving “trophy” antelope or deer, civil damages will be at least $2,000 and not more than • No more than four dogs may be trained in any aggregate. A person may not hunt by falconry and wake zone. one day. In addition, a person may not use or be in possession of a firearm or be accompanied by • Lincoln County: Lake Alvin and Lake Lakota, $5,000 for each animal; cases involving “trophy” elk, civil damages will be at least $6,000 and not carry a shotgun or rifle during training. a person carrying a firearm, except if the person is no wake zone. • The dog(s) must be owned by the person carrying a pistol and possesses a valid concealed • McCook County: The waters of Lehrman more than $10,000 for each elk. If a person has taken or is in possession of more than two times conducting the training and not offered for sale. pistol permit. Protected nongame birds and animals Game Production Area, in Sec. 32, T103N, • The owner of the dog may be assisted in the taken incidentally by a raptor may not be retained R56W, no boating during the Light Goose the lawful daily or possession limit of a regulated wild animal, such person may be liable for twice training if the owner is present. or possessed. Conservation Order as well as any open • No motor vehicle, horse or any other the civil damages. In addition, individuals charged season for migratory waterfowl. conveyance may be used. Falconry-Taking or Acquisition of Raptors • Meade County: Bear Butte Lake, no wake with the illegal taking of a trophy big game animal • However, persons who otherwise qualify to No person may take or attempt to take any raptor zone. are subject to loss of all preference points for the train dogs on public lands may use a horse for without first acquiring a raptor collecting permit • Minnehaha County: Clear Lake, no boating lottery license drawing. dog training on public lands until noon central issued by GFP. Permittees must be in immediate Oct. 20 - Dec. 31. Closed Areas time on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from possession of the raptor collecting permit while • Moody County: Lake Campbell, no wake zone The following are illegal: the first Friday of August to the first Sunday of taking or attempting to take raptors. The fee for a south of Moody County Road 1; Battle Creek, • Hunting without permission of landowner on September, inclusive, with authorization of the nonresident raptor collecting permit is $200. no wake zone from Lake Campbell south to the legally vacated section lines. government agency managing the public land. The trapping of passage raptors (immature steel bridge one mile south of Moody County • No person (except the landowner or anyone • For complete rules write to Game, Fish and raptors in their first year plumage) is permitted only Road 2. with landowner permission) may hunt on public Parks Permits; 20641 SD Hwy 1806; Fort between Aug. 1 - March 31. Only resident general • Pennington County: Deerfield Reservoir, no waters that inundate private land within 660 Pierre, SD 57532. or master falconry permittees may take eyas wake zone. feet of livestock, occupied dwelling, churches • The use of dogs is encouraged for hunting on (young, flightless birds) from a nest or aerie. At least • Roberts County: Secs. 20, 28, 29, 32 and or schoolhouses. federal U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl one eyas must be left in the nest or aerie. Eyas 33 of T128N, R49W of Cottonwood Lake • Discharging firearms or hunting road Production Areas (WPA). Dogs are allowed may be taken only May 1 - July 31. For additional Waterfowl Refuge, no boating zone during rights-of-way within 660 feet of a occupied for other recreational activities only if confined information, visit gfp.sd.gov/falconry-permit. to a vehicle, boat, ice house or on a leash waterfowl seasons; and Secs. 11, 12 and 14 of dwelling, church, schoolhouse, or livestock Federal Lacey Act T127N, R48W of Mud Lake, only boats using without written permission from the owner of controlled by the handler. Dog training and dogs roaming freely on WPA are prohibited. No person may transport or ship to another state electric motors during waterfowl seasons. such property. NOTE: Hunters often violate fish and wildlife unlawfully taken, possessed or sold • Turner County: Swan Lake, no motors on this state law when trees obscure feedlots, Dog Requirements in South Dakota. waters south and west of Christian Camp; and livestock, buildings and dwellings. A violation of Dogs being brought into South Dakota are the waters at the eastern end of Swan Lake the 660-foot law carries a one-year suspension required to have a certificate from their local General Restrictions within an area starting at a point along the of hunting privileges when the distance is veterinarian indicating that they are vaccinated No one may: shoreline approximately 60 feet south of the clearly and accurately posted against rabies. A health certificate is not necessary • Wantonly waste game or destroy any birds or concrete retaining wall that is located on the • Hunting waterfowl within state waterfowl for dogs traveling to this state with their owners animals protected by the laws of South Dakota. north side of the beach on a line to a point 100 refuges or game birds (including waterfowl) • Possess a loaded firearm while intoxicated. feet westerly, then on a line to a point 100 feet for less than 30 days. Dog owners with questions within state game bird refuges except as concerning requirements may call the Animal • Recklessly discharge a firearm or bow and southerly, then on a line in an easterly direction arrow. provided in season regulations. Industry Board at 605.773.3321. back to a point on shore are a no boating zone. • Hunting during the waterfowl seasons along • Use a firearm in the Fort Meade Recreation • Yankton County: Marindahl Lake, no wake Brown County Road 16 adjacent to the Sand Electronic Calls Area South Unit and the signed portion of the zone; Lake Yankton, electric motors only on Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The use of electronic calls is prohibited when North Unit. the north/south section lines between Secs. 22 • Hunting within any federal refuge, National hunting migratory birds (except for crows and • Take game, except by shooting it with a legal during the spring light goose conservation order) weapon or by birds trained in falconry.

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• Hunt game birds with a firearm other than a persons lawfully engaged in taking or attempting • U.S. Forest Service roads posted against snowmobile, motorcycle, or off-road vehicle with shotgun. Turkeys are classified as big game. to take game or fish, engage in activity specifically travel in the Black Hills. any firearm in the person’s possession unless • Hunt game birds with a shotgun capable of intended to harass or prevent the lawful taking of • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land except on the firearm is completely unloaded and within a being operated as a full automatic. game or fish or scare or disturb game with specific established roads. carrying case which encloses the entire firearm. • Use rifles and handguns, including .22 caliber intent to prevent its lawful taking. • On all waters of the Waubay National Wildlife This does not apply to (1) off-road vehicles on rimfire firearms, to hunt upland game birds. Drones may not be used to aid in the taking of Refuge and Waubay State Game Refuge in their own land or land they lease, but does apply They may be used for hunting other small game. Day County, except for designated trails. to the use of motorcycles, (2) any person who is game animals such as squirrels and rabbits. • Private land without permission from the owner carrying a pistol and possesses a SD permit to • Hunt with air guns, EXCEPT air guns may be Hunting Guides on Public Lands or lessee. carry a concealed pistol, (3) any person who holds used by licensed hunters to take cottontail No person, acting as a hunting guide, may guide No person who is in or on a motor vehicle, a valid disabled hunter permit issued by GFP, or rabbit, tree squirrel, coyote, fox, skunk, gopher, any hunting activity on state-owned or managed except those hunters with Disabled Hunter Permits, (4) a utility terrain vehicle (UTV) or any vehicle ground squirrel, chipmunk, jackrabbit, marmot, Game Production Areas, state parks, recreation may discharge a firearm, crossbow or a bow that is designed for four or more low-pressure porcupine, crow and prairie dog; air guns must areas and lakeside use areas, federal land leased and arrow at any wild animal except, coyotes, tires or rubberized tracks, and has a seat a person be factory-rated to produce a muzzle velocity or under agreement to GFP and posted as a Game jackrabbits, rodents, skunks, badgers, raccoons sits upon, and has a steering wheel. Additionally, of at least 1,000 feet per second; only hunting Production Area and managed for wildlife purposes and red and grey fox. this restriction does not apply to unaccompanied pellets are permitted. or private land leased or under agreement to GFP No person may allow a firearm to protrude persons at least 18 years of age hunting coyotes • Steal, damage or destroy someone else’s trap, for the purpose of providing public access, or on from a motor vehicle or a conveyance attached from a stationary snowmobile on their own land snare or animal in a trap. highways or other rights-of-way within this state to it while the vehicle is on a public road during a or land they lease. No more than one person that otherwise meet the requirements except that hunting season. However, a firearm may protrude may be aboard the snowmobile while coyotes are Gifting Wildlife and Fish a hunting guide or employees of a hunting guide from a motor vehicle when shooting at, coyotes, being hunted, and when shooting at coyotes, the For the purpose of this rule, gift means the may guide a hunting activity on the road rights-of- jackrabbits, rodents, skunks, badgers, raccoons snowmobile must be stationary. The restrictions for voluntary transfer of game/fish from any person to way immediately adjacent to property owned or and red and grey fox. carrying firearms do not apply to any person who another without fee or consideration. A licensee leased by the hunting guide. NOTE: Trespass laws apply and landowner is carrying a pistol and who possesses a permit to may gift game and fish or any part of game and A hunting guide is defined as a person permission is necessary to shoot from a road at carry a concealed pistol. fish, to another person if each of the following who holds himself or herself out to the public these species that are on private land. No person may send or receive a message by conditions is met: as a hunting guide and for compensation or No person may use a motor vehicle to chase, radio, cellular telephone or other electronic form of • The game/fish was lawfully taken, caught or remuneration, directs or provides services to any harass, intercept, pursue or disturb big game, small communications while in or on a motor vehicle for killed; and person for the purpose of hunting any wild animals. game or migratory birds. the purpose of hunting big game, small game or • The number or amount of game/fish gifted Federal agencies have regulations pertaining No person may kill or attempt to kill any wild migratory waterfowl. does not place the recipient in violation of any to guiding and outfitting in addition to those listed bird or animal from an aircraft, except for persons Hunters planning to use U.S. Forest Service or season, daily or possession limit established here. Contact the respective agency for more with a valid aerial hunting permit issued by the National Grassland public lands should contact the for the species of game/fish being gifted. information. department. No person may use an aircraft for Forest Service or Grasslands office for details on • If gifting to an unlicensed person the licensee the purpose of hunting, taking, concentrating, travel restrictions. shall gift the game/fish at the domicile of the Inspection driving, rallying, stirring up, locating, or spotting recipient. Any person who possesses any game bird, any wild bird or animal, except for a person Party Hunting Daily Limits • A wildlife processing facility and a person animal, or fish shall, upon the request of any who uses a drone for the purpose of locating or Two or more legally licensed hunters who who deposits lawfully taken game with the person authorized to enforce the game and fish spotting a predator or varmint, provided (1) The mutually agree to hunt small game as a party and facility for processing may agree upon a laws of the state, permit the inspection and count activity occurs only on or over land that is privately who maintain visual and unaided vocal contact period of time following which the facility may of the birds, animals, or fish. Any motor vehicle, owned; (2) The person operating the drone is the may take more than one daily limit of small game. consider the game, except a migratory bird, pickup camper, camper, or any conveyance landowner or has permission from the landowner or However, the total number of small game taken by to be abandoned by the person. With the attached thereto, may be stopped for such an a lessee; and (3) The activity does not occur during the party may not exceed the aggregate daily limit exception of a migratory bird, the facility may inspection and count by any uniformed law the months of September, October, or November. for all members of the party who are licensed to distribute abandoned game to any non-profit enforcement officer. No person may use a snowmobile to chase, take and possess small game. organization or any charitable organization that harass or disturb any wild animal. This does not apply to anyone who hunts small distributes food or other services to individuals Motor Vehicle Restrictions No person may use an amphibious or all-terrain game in more than one party in one day. in need. At no time may any abandoned game No person may operate motor-propelled vehicle to hunt or shoot at waterfowl unless the This does not apply to any Big Game License be considered the property of the wildlife vehicles on: vehicle is at rest or being used as part of a fixed or any tag issued as a part of a hunting license processing facility. • Lands owned, leased or controlled by GFP hunting blind. nor does this section apply to hunting of migratory • Gifting of waterfowl must comply with federal except on designated roads and parking areas; No person may use a motor vehicle on SD birds. regulations. See “Federal Laws for Migratory and waters that are open to motorized boats School and Public Lands for the purpose of Game Birds” for more information. (see boating restrictions). Protected Animals hunting, fishing or trapping. The restriction does not The following mammals are on the state and/or • Federal Waterfowl Production Areas, except on apply to roads, trails or parking areas designated Harassment designated parking areas. federal threatened or endangered species lists and and signed by GFP. are protected: wolf, swift fox, black-footed ferret No person may intentionally interfere with other • Fort Pierre National Grasslands except on No person may operate or ride on any designated roads and trails. 42 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 43 2019 general laws 2019 general laws and river otter. No person may kill nongame birds If an animal is wounded outside the boundaries of the year around and may be transported or carried for archery deer and archery wild turkey hunting except English (house) sparrows, rock pigeons, one of these units and enters within the boundaries, uncased to and from ranges and boat ramps from seasons are permitted in that portion of Newton Eurasian collared-doves and European starlings. the hunter should immediately notify a Park Ranger designated parking areas; and a firearm, air gun, Hills State Park which is situated to the west of Blackbirds, grackles, crows and magpies may be before tracking or retrieving the animal. crossbow or bow legally transported in a motor County Road 135 and north of County Road 140; killed when doing or about to do depredation. vehicle, trailer camper, or boat pursuant to state A person who possesses a valid turkey license Public Land and Park Restrictions law, is considered cased for purposes of this for Unit PST-48 is permitted to have an uncased Non-toxic Shot No person may enter, use or occupy lands section; shotgun using shot shells, a crossbow, a bow, or The use of non-toxic shot is required for all owned or leased by GFP if it interferes with the Hunters licensed for Custer State Park hunting a muzzleloading shotgun within the boundary of small game/waterfowl hunting on all state game management of the area, the posted purpose for seasons may have uncased firearms, crossbows Sica Hollow State Park to the eighth day before production areas, lake and fishing access areas, which the land was acquired or if the lands are and bows in Custer State Park during the season Memorial Day, inclusive. state park system areas, U.S. Army Corps of posted against such entry or use. Camping is only for which they are licensed; Uncased .22 caliber rimfire firearms are Engineers land, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Wildlife permitted in established campgrounds. Camping From September 1 to May 31, inclusive, uncased prohibited on all state park and recreation area Production Areas managed by GFP, U.S. Fish and is also prohibited on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service firearms, air guns, crossbows and bows are lands and on the George S. Mickelson Trail Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges, and U.S. Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA). Campfires authorized for licensed hunters in all lakeside use the year around. However, uncased .22 caliber Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production are allowed only at designated campsites and in areas and Shadehill Recreation Area; rimfire firearms are permitted within North Areas. Lead shot may not be possessed while approved fireplaces, stoves or grills on GFP lands. From Oct. 1 - April 30, inclusive, uncased Point Recreation Area and Oahe Downstream hunting waterfowl/small game on these areas. GFP Campfires are not allowed on U.S. Fish and Wildlife firearms, crossbows and bows are authorized for Recreation Area year-round on rifle ranges encourages hunters to use non-toxic shot for all Service Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA). licensed hunters in all state parks, state recreation designated by the GFP. hunting, but it is not required on U.S. Forest Service No person may use a motor vehicle for the areas, nature areas and lakeside use areas during The discharge of firearms or bows on or National Grasslands, SD School and Public Lands purposes of hunting, fishing or trapping on any land established hunting seasons with the following across the George S. Mickelson Trail rights-of- or on most GFP-managed and leased property under the control of SD School and Public Lands, restrictions: way is prohibited designated as Walk-In Areas and CREP when except for roads, trails or parking areas designated Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows Uncased firearms are prohibited on: hunting small game such as pheasants, grouse or and signed by GFP. Hunting is not permitted in are prohibited year around in all established • The East Pelican Lake Access Area in mourning doves. standing crops. campgrounds, designated day use areas, and at Codington Co. Those hunting ducks, geese, coots, tundra swan, Only persons using a state park, state recreation Beaver Creek Nature Area, Lake Herman State • That portion of the Beilage Game Production Sandhill cranes or snipe may not possess lead shot area, state nature area or state lakeside use area Park, Spring Creek Recreation Area, Spirit Mound Area north of Christensen Drive located in and must use a federally approved non-toxic shot. for lawful hunting, trapping, fishing, snowmobiling, Historic Prairie, Bear Butte State Park east of Hwy Sec. 24 and 25, T6N, R2E, in Lawrence Co. Approved non-toxic shot includes steel (iron) boating or camping may enter, use, or occupy any 79, Oahe Downstream Recreation Area except • Hazel’s Haven Fishing Access Area in Moody Co. of the above areas from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. shot, bismuth-tin, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix, for a hunter who possesses a valid deer license • That portion of the Marcotte Game Production Only persons engaged in lawful hunting, tungsten-iron-fluoropolymer and any combination of for Unit WRD-58D or a valid turkey license for Area in Sec. 16, T5N, R5E, in Meade Co. trapping, fishing or boating may enter, use, or tungsten-iron-nickel-tin-copper-bismuth. See also 50 Unit PST-58B; and in Good Earth State Park and • Kelley’s Cove Fishing Access Area in Yankton occupy any of the following areas from 11 p.m. to CFR 20.21(j)(1) for the complete listing of federally Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve except for Co. 6 a.m. year-round: Public Shooting Areas, Game a resident hunter who possesses a valid archery approved non-toxic shot types. • The Hwy 38/James River Fishing Access Area Production Areas, Wildlife Refuges, Lake and spring turkey or archery deer license and an in Davison Co. Coated lead shot does NOT qualify as non- Fishing Access Areas, Public Water Access Areas access permit; • The New Underwood Lake Access Area in toxic shot. and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Only bows are permitted in Big Sioux State Pennington Co. except any licensed hunter Turkeys are classified as big game and can be Production Areas (WPA) operated by the U.S. Fish Recreation Area, the Forest Drive Unit of Richmond while lawfully engaged in hunting. hunted with lead shot. and Wildlife Service. Lake State Recreation Area, Palisades State Park, In addition, target shooting with shotguns using A person hunting in a leased controlled waterfowl • The Rollings Game Production Area in Lincoln LaFramboise Island Nature Area , Chief White Co. except any licensed hunter, using a lead shot is prohibited on the following state public hunting area may hunt only in designated hunting Crane Recreation Area, Clay County Recreation shotgun with shot shells only, while hunting lands: State Game Production Areas, lake and areas. Hunting in leased shooting zones where Area and the mouth of Spearfish Canyon; small game or wild turkey and persons using fishing access areas, public water access areas, blinds have been constructed by GFP must only Only shotguns using shot shells, crossbows the shooting range when open. state park system areas and U.S. Army Corps occur from the constructed blinds. Hunting outside and bows are permitted in West Whitlock State of Engineers Wildlife Production Areas and U.S. of or between adjacent blinds is prohibited. Recreation Area, West Pickerel Recreation • The Lake Henry Fishing Access Area in Bon Bureau of Reclamation lands managed by GFP. No person may target shoot on U.S. Fish and Area, Mina Recreation Area, Okobojo Recreation Homme County except any licensed hunter, Refer to Tom Roster’s Non-toxic Shot Lethality Table on Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA). Area, Farm Island Recreation Area, Angostura using a shotgun with shot shells only, while page 48. The Fort Pierre National Grasslands prohibits Recreation Area, Cow Creek State Recreation hunting small game or turkey. trap shooting. USFS asks hunters to use non-toxic Area, Oakwood Lake State Park and those portions • Only shotguns using shot shells, crossbows, National Parks, Monuments, Memorials and bow and arrow are permitted on lands The taking of wildlife is prohibited in Badlands shot for small game hunting. of North Point State Recreation Area which are Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows are situated to the west of 381st Street and north of owned and operated by the Otter Tail Power National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Company and leased as a Game Production Mount Rushmore National Memorial and Wind prohibited in all state parks, state recreation areas, 297th Ave., and situated west of 382nd Ave. and state nature areas and state lakeside use areas Area in Grant County and the Lake Andes units Cave National Park. No person may hunt, trap north of 297th Street, and situated south of 297th with the following exceptions: Game Production Areas in Charles Mix County. or discharge a firearm within the boundaries of Street and west of Prairie Dog Bay; Uncased firearms, crossbows and bows are Centerfire rifles are prohibited on the these units. Only shotguns using shot shells, crossbows and permitted on designated rifle and archery ranges bows for the wild turkey hunting seasons and bows Lechtenberg Game Production Area in Hand

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County and on the Cottonwood Lake Hatchery Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad Sale/Use of Wildlife See the “Hunting on Public Road Rights-of- Game Bird Refuge in Spink County. • Belle Fourche to Nebraska border at Wayside No person may sell or barter game birds or Way” section. No person may use any firearm on the Fort following Hwy 34 and 79 animals except for skin, head or bone-hard antlers of big game; skin or plumage of pheasants, sharp- Walk-In Area/CREP Restrictions Meade Recreation Area South Unit and the signed • Rapid City to South Dakota border at Elkton No one may enter, use or occupy lands leased portion of the North Unit. following Hwy 14 tailed grouse, prairie chickens or grey partridge; turkey feathers; skins of cottontail rabbit, fox by GFP under the state Walk-In Area program for No person may discharge a weapon across • Blunt to Onida following Hwy 83 any purpose other than hunting unless they have or from a National Forest System road or into a • Huron to Yale north of Hwy 14 squirrel, grey squirrel and red squirrel that have been lawfully taken by a licensed hunter; and legal permission from the landowner or any lessee of cave or within 150 yards of a residence, building, • All crossings are marked RCP&E the land other than GFP. A person may enter, use, campsite or recreation area (Pactola, Sheridan, Burlington Northern/Santa Fe furbearers. No person may wantonly waste game. or occupy lands leased by GFP under the state Deerfield, etc.). • White Butte - Mobridge - Aberdeen - Milbank Walk-In Area program for purposes of hunting NOTE: A person who possesses a valid - Ortonville Trespass under the following conditions: concealed pistol permit may carry a concealed • Aberdeen - Mitchell - Yankton - Vermillion - No person may hunt or trap any species of • The person moves or travels only on foot. pistol at any time. Elk Point - North Sioux City game, including unprotected species, on private • The conditions under which a person may No person may ride or allow horses on land • Mitchell - Parker - Canton land without permission from the owner or lessee enter, use, or occupy lands leased by GFP owned, leased or controlled by GFP except on • Canton - Sioux Falls - Colton - Wentworth - except in that part of the Black Hills Fire Protection apply whether or not the state has jurisdiction designated bridle trails or equestrian areas. During Madison District south of Interstate 90. In that area, no to impose its hunting regulations on the person established seasons, licensed deer hunters may • Sioux Falls - Garretson - Sherman person may enter private land to hunt if the land is seeking to enter, use, or occupy the land. use horses on state Game Production Areas • Dewey - Edgemont - Provo - Ardmore posted or if told by the owner or lessee not to do • Landowner permission is required to trap on along the Missouri River, and licensed deer and Dakota-Southern - (not open during the so. The Black Hills Forest Fire Protection District is these areas. as follows: Commencing at a point on the WY-SD elk hunters or anyone assisting in the removal of resident-only pheasant season) No big game Youth Accompaniment legally tagged deer and elk may use horses on the hunting allowed (firearm or archery) on all state line at the junction of I-90 at the state line; then east and southeast along I-90 via Rapid City A parent, guardian or responsible adult (at least Battle Mountain/Friendshuh GPA in Fall River and Dakota Southern. 18 years old) must accompany youth under age Custer counties. Horses are prohibited on U.S. • Mitchell to U.S. Hwy 83 (West of Vivian) - to the intersection of U.S. Hwy 16B; then south and southwest along U.S. Hwy 16B to the intersection 16 (under 18 for Youth Pheasant Season) while Fish and Wildlife Service Waterfowl Production closed to hunting. hunting. A parent, guardian or responsible adult (at Areas (WP) and National Wildlife Refuges. • U.S. Hwy 83 to Kadoka - open to small game of SD Hwy 79; then south along SD Hwy 79 to the intersection of U.S. Hwy 18; then south along least 18 years old) must accompany all apprentice A person may not destroy, damage or remove a hunting. deer season licensees. living or dead tree, shrub or vegetation; disturb any • Napa (Yankton County Road 211) to the City U.S. Hwy 18 to the Cheyenne River; then west earth, rocks, minerals, natural formations or cultural of Ravinia - open to small game hunting. and northwest along the Cheyenne River to the resources; or destroy, damage or remove skulls Other rail lines exercise varying degrees WY-SD state line; then north along said state line to the place of beginning. The Black Hills Forest Fire or other parts of animal carcass located on lands of control over the uses of the rail lines they Protection District does not include any area within owned or leased by GFP without written permission operate, including restrictions on public hunting. the limits of any municipality. from the secretary or a designated agent. Abandoned rail lines may have reverted to If a person is convicted of knowingly Shed antler hunting is allowed on GFP private ownership to the adjoining landowner. trespassing, the person’s applicable hunting or owned lands, including state parks, recreation Unless permission has been obtained from the trapping privilege shall be revoked for one year. areas and Game Production Areas. However, rail line operating the particular stretch of track or permission from the landowner is required for permission has been obtained from the adjoining Unarmed Retrieval shed hunting on Walk-In Areas, CREP, CHAP, or landowner of property in the case of abandoned Hunters may retrieve lawfully taken small game other privately-owned lands leased by GFP for rail lines, railroad rights-of-way should not be without permission from private or public land public hunting. Regulations differ for lands owned considered open for hunting. (except National Wildlife Refuges closed to such entry) if they are unarmed and retrieve on foot. by other state or federal agencies. Contact the Road-Killed Big Game respective agency for more information. Permission is needed to retrieve big game, An unfortunate by-product of wild free-ranging including turkeys. If you are planning a trip for hunting or other big game animals is vehicle-wildlife accidents. recreation on National Forest and Grasslands To be lawfully taken from road rights-of-way, the If an accident occurs between a motor vehicle hunter must be within the rights-of-way boundaries in South Dakota please contact a U.S. Forest and a deer or other big game, the accident Service Office for information on use of these when shooting and the small game must originate must be reported to law enforcement if there is from or be flying over the road rights-of-way. public areas, road closures and recreation fees significant damage to the vehicle. In accordance that might apply in certain areas. with state law, before any individual can possess Be Respectful of Road Conditions Railroad Rights-of-Way a big game animal killed by a motor vehicle that Driving roads during wet weather and leaving the traveled road in bad condition may hinder relationships Railroad rights-of-way are not considered to be individual must obtain authorization from a GFP between hunters and landowners. Landowners have expressed their concern about road conditions the same as road rights-of-way for purposes of conservation officer prior to taking possession. Taking carcasses or any part of a big game during the hunting seasons. When roads are traveled during wet periods ruts are developed and once hunting. Some rail lines expressly prohibit hunting frozen, can be extremely difficult to drive farm equipment down to access crop fields. Please respect on their owned or leased railroad rights-of-way. animal, including the antlers, without authorization these important roads. If you notice your vehicle leaving ruts, make the right decision; back out of the Those routes include: is illegal. soft area, park and walk to your desired location. 46 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 47 2019 general laws SOUTH DAKOTA GAME, FISH AND PARKS CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE protect your herd Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal disease of the central nervous system caused by an abnormal protein called a prion and is found in both captive and free-ranging deer and elk. Counties Where CWD Has Been Detected in Free-Ranging Deer and Elk CWD has been detected within free-ranging deer in the Black Hills (Firearm Units BH1 BD1 and BD2), Custer State Park and Prairie Units 02C, 21A, 21B, 27A, 27B and 27L AND within free-ranging elk in the Black Hills (Firearm Units H2, H3, H4, H5, H7 and H9), and Custer State Park.

South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks recently finalized a CWD Action Plan and the Commission is currently working on new regulations to reduce the spread of CWD to new areas of the state. Any new regulations will not go into effect until the 2020 hunting seasons, but hunters can be proactive now by implementing best management practices.

Visit gfp.sd.gov/chronic-wasting-disease to learn more about CWD, best management practices for carcass transportation and disposal, other preventative measures and how hunters can assist with CWD surveillance efforts.

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The South Dakota Sportsmen Against Hunger online and paper applications for hunting licenses. Please remember some of these lands are privately owned and your actions while hunting them can (SAH) program was established in 1993 to provide Individuals may also use the “Donate” link on the determine if they are open to public hunting in the future. 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 Game Production Areas (GPA) Elk Hunting Access Program (EHAP) sportsmen and women can continue to make a send them to South Dakota Sportsmen Against Game Production Areas are public lands owned EHAP was developed to help address difference by sharing the meat from big game and Hunger, P.O. Box 1172, Pierre, SD 57501. Call by the State of South Dakota and managed by the depredation complaints on private land and to game birds. Hunters may help offset costs of this 1.800.456.2758 or visit feedtheneedsd.com to learn 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 program by making tax-deductible cash donations more about the program. with money from the sale of hunting licenses and public elk hunting access by the South Dakota to SAH through use a check-off provision on the 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 Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal sample at South Dakota State University Animal more than 281,000 acres. The property taxes are and can be received by directly contacting the disease of the central nervous system found in Disease and Research Diagnostics Lab (SDSU paid annually by GFP. landowner. Contact the GFP office in Rapid City at both captive and free-ranging deer and elk. The ADRDL). Results will be sent to both the hunter Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl and small 605.394.2391 to learn how to access these areas. South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and and GFP. These results will supplement GFP’s game. Parks (GFP) has been conducting surveillance surveillance effort across the state. Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program for CWD since 1997 in an effort to determine The process for collecting samples from a Walk-In Areas (WIA) (CREP) disease presence and prevalence across the state. harvested deer or elk and how to properly submit Walk-In Areas are lands owned by private Lands in CREP are open year round to public Chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in to SDSU ADRDL can be found at individuals as working farms and ranches that are hunting and fishing access. Landowner permission free-ranging deer and elk in Custer, Fall River, gfp.sd.gov/cwd-testing. More detailed information leased for public hunting access only by the South is required for trapping. CREP lands are owned by Lawrence and Pennington counties. on hunter submissions for CWD testing will Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks. private individuals who have enrolled them in the The goal of surveillance strategies in South be mailed to successful applicants in priority Landowner permission is required for fishing and Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and signed Dakota is to determine the likely spread of CWD surveillance units prior to the start of the deer and trapping. Money from the sale of hunting licenses a lease agreement with South Dakota Department to new units where the disease has not been elk hunting seasons. For additional information on and Federal Aid money from a tax on hunting of Game, Fish and Parks to provide public hunting detected in wild, free-ranging deer and elk. All the CWD surveillance program, visit gfp.sd.gov/ equipment sales is used to pay the leases. No and fishing access and target habitat in the James successful deer and elk hunters in Custer State chronic-wasting-disease or contact the GFP permission is needed to hunt these areas and River Watershed. These lands were enrolled in the Park are required to submit samples for CWD Regional Office in Rapid City at 605.394.2391. 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. testing. Other hunters in South Dakota who Hunters can serve a critical role with There are over 1.2 million acres in the Walk-In Most of these areas have excellent wildlife habitat would like to get their deer or elk tested for CWD surveillance efforts and reducing the spread Area program. established. Over 80,000 acres of CREP will be can voluntarily submit a sample for testing. As a of CWD. To learn more about CWD and how Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl. open to public hunting this fall. voluntary submission, hunters will be responsible hunters can be proactive by implementing best Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl. for the cost of shipping and any professional management practices, please visit gfp.sd.gov/ Controlled Hunting Access Program (CHAP) sample collection costs unless the hunter delivers chronic-wasting-disease. CHAP areas are lands owned by private Waterfowl Production Areas (WPA) a sample to a GFP Office or sample collection individuals as working farms and ranches that Waterfowl production areas are owned by the area. GFP will pay for the testing cost of 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 plague in wildlife 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 Plague is an infectious disease of humans and Dewey, Fall River, Jackson, Lyman, Mellette, sales is used to pay the leases. Permission is are 1,000 WPAs in South Dakota, totaling nearly wildlife caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Pennington, Shannon and Stanley counties. needed to hunt these areas and can be received 150,000 acres. It is generally contracted through the bite of a Plague likely occurs in most counties west of via self-serve check in boxes, on-line reservations, Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl and small flea carrying the bacterium or less commonly by the Missouri River. Presence of plague does not or by directly contacting the landowner. Landowner game. handling or ingesting meat from an animal infected indicate an outbreak is occurring. permission is required for fishing and trapping. See with the disease. Typically rodents, carnivores Plague can cause severe illness or death. the Public Hunting Atlas for more details.There is Other Public Areas and rabbits are species most likely to become Antibiotic treatment is effective against plague if no driving on these areas except on designated Game, Fish and Parks also manages Water infected. Species with high mortality rates include the infected person is treated promptly. There have trails which are marked with signs. Access Areas, State Game Refuges, State Game cats (wild and domestic), marmots, prairie dogs, been NO documented human cases of plague in Non-toxic shot required for waterfowl. Bird Refuges, State Waterfowl Refuges, Lakeside rabbits, squirrels and wood rats. Dogs (wild and South Dakota. Human patients generally have a Use Areas, State Recreation Areas and State domestic), most mustelids (skunks, weasels, etc.) history of exposure in rural areas. Avoid fleas and Parks. These areas are regulated and may or and some species of rodents have high resistance interacting with pets that may have had exposure may not provide public hunting. Other agencies to the disease. Free-roaming pets that interact with to plague. For more information about plague in with public hunting lands in South Dakota include the SD Office of School and Public Lands, U.S. infected wild animal populations can also carry humans visit the Department of Health Forest Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the plague-infected fleas. (doh.sd.gov/) or Centers for Disease Control Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of From 1994-2012, plague-positive animal or flea websites (cdc.gov). Reclamation. samples have been taken from Bennett, Custer,

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GAME REFUGE - No hunting or trapping of any species. Maps are available to assist hunters when hunting and navigating public lands across South Dakota. For GAME BIRD REFUGE - No hunting of game birds, including waterfowl. Big game hunting and additional information on the maps listed below or to have any one of them mailed to you, contact the trapping are allowed. represented agency or view them online, if available. WATERFOWL REFUGE - No waterfowl hunting. Big game and small game hunting and trapping are allowed. South Dakota Hunting Atlas Grand River and Cedar River National This free booklet contains a series of detailed Grasslands Brown County MISSOURI RIVER RESERVOIR REFUGES maps showing private land in South Dakota that Color map of National Grasslands in Renziehausen Slough - Game Bird Refuge Refuge boundaries are posted with signs. has been leased for public hunting by GFP as northwestern South Dakota. Write: Dakota Brule County Missouri River refuges are shown in the Hunting Walk-In Areas. The maps also show other public Prairie Grasslands, 240 West Century Ave., Jorgenson - Game Refuge Atlas. hunting areas. Maps are available at GFP offices, Bismarck, ND 58503; call 701.250.4443; or visit Clark County Lake Oahe from the GFP website gfp.sd.gov, by email request nationalforeststore.com. Check with the Forest Reid Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Blue Blanket Waterfowl Refuge from [email protected], phone request from Service for cost and postage. Antelope Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Swan Creek Waterfowl Refuge 605.223.7660, or by writing Game, Fish and Parks Custer National Forest Day County Latin Draw Waterfowl Refuge Information Office, 20641 SD Hwy 1806, Fort Pierre, Whitlock Bay Waterfowl Refuge Color map including Cave Hills, Slim Buttes, Waubay - Game Bird Refuge SD 57532. Sutton Waterfowl Refuge Long Pines and Short Pines in northwestern Edmunds County Sutton Bottom Waterfowl Refuge South Dakota Hunting Map for GPS South Dakota, as well as Custer National Forest Scatterwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Baker’s Gulch Waterfowl Refuge SD Hunting Atlas Map information is available in Montana. Write: U.S. Forest Service, 1310 Main Faulk County Mail Shack Waterfowl Refuge for download into GPS devices at: St., Billings, MT 59105; call 406.657.6200; or visit Gerken - Game Bird Refuge Okobojo Creek Waterfowl Refuge gfp.sd.gov/hunting-areas nationalforeststore.com. Check with the Forest Scatterwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Spring Creek Waterfowl Refuge Service for map cost and postage. Peoria Flats Waterfowl Refuge South Dakota School and Public Lands Grant County BLM Surface Management Quads Eye - Game Refuge Oahe Dam Waterfowl Refuge Shows state school and public lands throughout Lake Albert - Waterfowl Refuge Lake Sharpe the state. Index is available online at Shows public land in extreme western and Big Stone Power Plant - Waterfowl Refuge Oahe Dam Waterfowl Refuge sdpubliclands.com or by calling Office of School northwestern South Dakota. Free index available. DeGrey Waterfowl Refuge and Public Lands, 605.773.3303. There is a cost Write: Bureau of Land Management, Field Office, Hand County 310 Roundup Street, Belle Fourche, SD 57717; Wall Lake - Game Bird Refuge Joe Creek Waterfowl Refuge for each map. Big Bend Dam Waterfowl Refuge call 605.892.7000. Prices vary with size of the Hughes County Buffalo Gap National Grasslands maps. LaFramboise Island - Game Bird Refuge (No Lake Francis Case Color map of the National Grasslands and Firearms) Chamberlain Waterfowl Refuge Badlands National Park in southwestern South U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Lands Hutchinson County Chamberlain North Waterfowl Refuge Dakota. Write: U.S. Forest Service, 125 North Main Information regarding land managed by the U.S. Big Bend Dam Waterfowl Refuge Silver Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Street, Chadron, NE 69337; or call 308.432.0300. Bureau of Reclamation can be requested from: Whetstone Waterfowl Refuge U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Dakotas Area Office, Marshall County Check with the Forest Service for map cost and White Swan Waterfowl Refuge Rapid City Field Office Room 101, 515 9th St., White Lake - Game Bird Refuge postage; or visit nationalforeststore.com. Fort Randall Dam Waterfowl Refuge Rapid City, SD 57701; or call 605.394.9757. Perkins County Lake Lewis and Clark Black Hills National Forest Shadehill - Waterfowl Refuge Fort Randall Dam Tailwaters Reservoir Color map of the Black Hills showing roads, Missouri River Boating and Recreation Guide Roberts County trails and public land ownership. Write: U.S. Maps Cottonwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge Refuges on Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe, Forest Service, 1019 N. 5th St., Custer, SD 57730; Includes water area and government lands on Bullhead Lake - Waterfowl Refuge except those including Oahe Dam and Big Bend call 605.673.9200; or visit nationalforeststore.com. the mainstem reservoirs of the Missouri River. Spink County Dam, are closed to waterfowl hunting from the Check with the Forest Service for map cost and Maps for lakes Lewis and Clark, Francis Case, Cottonwood Lake - Waterfowl Refuge opening day of the earliest waterfowl season postage. To order a map using a credit card, call Sharpe and Oahe can be ordered from: Dept. Cottonwood Hatchery - Game Bird Refuge through the last day of the Canada goose season 605.745.7020. of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Omaha and are open to duck hunting after that date if that Yankton County Fort Pierre National Grasslands District, Operations Division - CEMRO- OP-N, 106 season is still open. South 15th St., Omaha, NE 68102-1618; or call Kelly’s Cove - Game Refuge All state waterfowl refuges are open during Color map of the National Grasslands in central South Dakota. Write: U.S. Forest 402.221.4139. Contact the Corps for map costs the Light Goose Conservation Order in the and postage. spring, except for Silver Lake and refuges that Service, 1020 N. Deadwood Ave., Ft. Pierre, SD encompass Oahe Dam, Big Bend Dam and Fort 57532; call 605.224.5517; or visit the website at Randall Dam. Waterfowl hunters should also nationalforeststore.com. Check with the Forest read the section on “Boating Restrictions” in this Service for cost and postage. handbook.

52 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 53 duck identification 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.

diving ducks

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

54 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 55 duck identification duck identification puddle ducks

56 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 57 duck identification duck identification

58 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov | 605.223.7660 59 Apprentice Deer and mentored big game apprentice deer and mentored big game

Apprentice Deer Resident Big Game Mentored Program RESIDENT • The apprentice deer license is for an “any Deer, Antelope, Turkey antlerless deer” tag that is valid statewide. • Dependents of residents only. HuntSAFE Eligible for Big Game Eligible for Apprentice Age • Apprentice deer licenses are available to • Mentored hunter who, at the time of going Required? Mentored Program? License? residents and nonresidents who will reach 12 hunting, is under 16 years old. years of age by December 31 and have not Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A Yes No reached the age of 18 by June 30. • Mentored deer licensees are eligible for other December 31) deer licenses except the Apprentice Deer • Residents who are 18 years of age or older by License. 12-15 Yes for Apprentice, June 30 can receive an apprentice license as Yes Yes (12 by December 31) No for Mentored 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 16-18 No No Yes mentor within immediate control (arm’s length) (less than 18 on June 30) • Nonresidents who are older than 18 years of age by June 30 are not eligible for apprentice and supervision of the adult. licenses. Yes, but only if licensee has • Mentors must physically possess hunter 18+ No No not held a South Dakota deer education certification and the license (18 or older on June 30) • Youth hunters under age 16, are required license in the past 10 years. to physically possess hunter education intended for their specific mentored hunter for certification in the field. the respective season.

Apprentice Deer Licensees (Ages 12-18) • Mentors who are not the parent or guardian NONRESIDENT • A parent/guardian must accompany the youth of the mentored hunter must also possess when obtaining an Apprentice Deer License. written permission from the parent or guardian of the hunter. HuntSAFE Eligible for Big Game Eligible for Apprentice Age • All apprentice deer licensees, must be Required? Mentored Program? License? accompanied (unaided visual and vocal • Adult can only accompany one mentored contact) by a parent, guardian or responsible hunter at a time. Under 12 adult (at least 18 years old). (11 or younger on N/A No No • Hunting parties with mentored hunters cannot December 31) • Adult accompanying the apprentice deer exceed six persons. licensee is not required to possess hunter Yes, or copy of 12-15 education certification. hunting license issued No Yes (12 by December 31) by another state • Apprentice deer licensees are eligible for other deer licenses except the mentored deer 16-18 No No Yes license. (less than 18 on June 30) • Adult (at least 18 years old) must be unarmed* unless the adult has a Big Game License valid 18+ for the same geographic area and time of year No No No (18 or older on June 30) as the apprentice deer licensees.

• Adult can accompany multiple apprentice deer hunters.

To learn more about mentored big game hunting and apprentice deer hunting, visit gfp.gov and search “mentor hunt.” *Adult may carry and possess a pistol provided they have a valid concealed pistol permit.

60 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov 61 youth small game and JR. combination youth small game and JR. combination

Youth Small Game Resident Small Game Mentored Program RESIDENT • 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 Eligible Eligible for Youth Eligible for Junior HuntSAFE hunting, is under 16 years old. Age for Youth Small Game Mentored Combination Required? • Adult (at least 18) accompanying the License? Program? 2 License? youth hunter is not required to have hunter • Mentored hunter is not required to possess hunter education certification. Under 12 education certification. (11 or younger on N/A No Yes No • The mentored hunter can hunt during the December 31) • Youth under 16 (under 18 for youth pheasant season) must be accompanied youth small game or other small game seasons but the mentored hunting rules for 12-15 1, 4 (unaided visual and vocal contact) by a Yes Yes Yes No accompaniment must be followed anytime a (12 by December 31) parent, guardian or responsible adult (at least 18 years old). mentored hunter is hunting: • A mentored youth hunter must be 16-18 3, 4 • Youth hunters under age 16, are required accompanied by an unarmed** parent, (at the time of license No No No Yes purchase) to possess hunter education certification in guardian or designated mentor within the field. immediate control (arm’s length) and supervision of the adult. 19+ No No No No • Game taken by a licensed youth hunter does not count toward the adult’s daily limit • Game taken by a mentored hunter counts unless party hunting for small game. toward the mentor’s daily limit.

• The combined number of animals taken • The combined number of animals taken NONRESIDENT 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 Eligible for Eligible for Eligible for HuntSAFE Nonresident Youth Small Nonresident the number of animals authorized under of animals authorized under the license Age Required? Youth Small Game Mentored Adult Small licenses held by hunters. held by the adult mentor. Game License? Program? 2 Game License? • An adult can accompany multiple youth • Adult mentor can only accompany one Under 12 small game or jr. combination hunters. mentored hunter at a time. (11 or younger on N/A No No No December 31) • 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. Yes, or copy of 12-15 1, 4 season. 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. **Adult may carry and possess a pistol provided they have a valid concealed pistol permit.

62 2019 South Dakota Hunting Handbook gfp.sd.gov 63 youth waterfowl youth waterfowl

Youth Waterfowl Resident Waterfowl Mentored Program RESIDENT • Nonresident Fall Waterfowl Licenses by • Dependents of residents only. application only. Eligible for Youth Eligible for Junior • Mentored hunter who, at the time of going HuntSAFE Eligible for Age Waterfowl Mentored Combination Required? Youth License? • Youth hunters under age 16, are required to hunting, is under 16 years old. Program? 2 License? possess hunter education certification in the Under 12 field. ◦◦ Mentored hunter is not required to possess (11 or younger on N/A No Yes No hunter education certification. December 31) • A parent/guardian must accompany the youth when obtaining the Youth Small Game • The mentored hunter can hunt during 12-15 1, 4 License or Jr. Combination License and State the youth waterfowl or regular waterfowl Yes Yes Yes No (12 by December 31) Migratory Bird Certification (residents only). seasons but the mentored hunting rules for accompaniment must be followed anytime a 3, 4 16-18 • Federal Waterfowl Stamp is required for any mentored hunter is hunting: No No No Yes (at the time of license hunters age 16 and older. purchase) ◦◦ The mentor shall be properly licensed to • Youth under 16, must be accompanied hunt waterfowl in South Dakota. 19+ No No No No (unaided visual and vocal contact) by a parent, guardian or responsible adult (at least 18 ◦◦ A mentored youth hunter must be Resident hunters are required to possess the State Migratory Bird Certification. years old). accompanied by an unarmed** parent, Those 16 and older are also required to possess the Federal Waterfowl Stamp. guardian or designated mentor within • The combined number of animals taken immediate control (arm’s length) and NONRESIDENT or possessed by the youth hunter and supervision of the adult. accompanying adult may not exceed the Eligible for Eligible for Eligible for number of animals authorized under licenses ◦◦ Game taken by a mentored hunter counts HuntSAFE Nonresident Youth Waterfowl Nonresident held by waterfowl hunters. toward the mentor’s daily limit. Age Required? Youth Waterfowl Mentored Adult Waterfowl License? Program? 2 License? • Adult can accompany multiple youth waterfowl ◦◦ The combined number of animals taken or hunters. possessed by the mentored hunter and the Under 12 (11 or younger on N/A No No No hunting mentor may not exceed the number December 31) of animals authorized under licenses held by the adult mentor. Yes, or copy of Yes, valid for the 12-15 1, 4 hunting license issued two-day Youth No Yes (12 by December 31) ◦◦ Adult mentor can only accompany one by another state Waterfowl Season. mentored hunter at a time. 16-18 3, 4 (less than 18 on No No No Yes ◦◦ Hunting parties with mentored hunters June 30) cannot exceed six persons.

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

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Rapid City Chris Dekker 605.390.0923 Britton Casey Dowler 605.881.3775 Rapid City Jacob Hasz 605.415.6462 Webster Austin Norton 605.381.2177 Phillip Page Greenwaldt 605.391.6042 Webster Calvin Meyer 605.237.3275 Wall Spencer Carstens 605.391.2132 Sisseton Dean Shultz 605.381.3773 Rapid City Adam Geigle* 605.390.1230 Aberdeen Tim McCurdy* 605.380.4572

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All times are Daylight Savings Time through Nov.2 Sioux Falls Huron Pierre Philip Rapid City Sioux Falls Huron Pierre Philip Rapid City beginning Nov. 3*, all times are StandardTime. For DATE Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set DATE Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set each 12 miles west, add one minute. For each 12 Oct 19 7:45-6:37 7:53-6:41 8:01-6:50 7:07-5:55 7:12-6:02 Dec 22 7:57-4:53 8:06-4:57 8:14-5:05 7:19-4:12 7:25-4:17 miles east, subtract one minute. Oct 23 7:50-6:30 7:59-6:35 8:06-6:44 7:12-5:49 7:17-5:56 Dec 26 7:58-4:56 8:07-4:59 8:16-5:07 7:20-4:14 7:26-4:20 Oct 27 7:55-6:25 8:04-6:29 8:11-6:38 7:17-5:43 7:22-5:50 Dec 30 7:59-4:58 8:08-5:02 8:17-5:10 7:21-4:17 7:27-4:23 Sioux Falls Huron Pierre Philip Rapid City DATE Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Rise-Set Oct 31 8:00-6:19 8:09-6:23 8:17-6:32 7:22-5:37 7:27-5:44 Jan 3 8:00-5:02 8:08-5:06 8:17-5:14 7:21-4:21 7:27-4:26

Sept 1 6:50-8:02 6:56-8:08 7:04-8:17 6:10-7:22 6:15-7:29 Nov 3* 7:04-5:15 7:13-5:19 7:21-5:28 6:29-4:29 6:31-4:40 Jan 7 7:59-5:06 8:08-5:10 8:17-5:18 7:20-4:25 7:27-4:30

Sept 5 6:54-7:55 7:01-8:01 7:08-8:10 6:15-7:14 6:20-7:21 Nov 8 7:11-5:09 7:20-5:12 7:27-5:21 6:33-4:27 6:38-4:34 Jan 11 7:58-5:10 8:06-5:15 8:15-5:22 7:19-4:29 7:26-4:35

Sept 9 6:59-7:48 7:05-7:54 7:13-8:03 6:19-7:07 6:24-7:14 Nov 12 7:16-5:04 7:25-5:08 7:33-5:17 6:38-4:22 6:43-4:29 Jan 15 7:57-5:15 8:05-5:19 8:14-5:27 7:17-4:34 7:24-4:39

Sept 13 7:03-7:40 7:10-7:46 7:17-7:55 6:24-7:00 6:29-7:07 Nov 16 7:21-5:00 7:31-5:04 7:38-5:13 6:44-4:19 6:49-4:25 Jan 19 7:54-5:20 8:02-5:24 8:11-5:32 7:15-4:39 7:22-4:44

Sept 17 7:08-7:33 7:15-7:39 7:22-7:48 6:28-6:52 6:34-6:59 Nov 20 7:26-4:57 7:36-5:01 7:43-5:09 6:49-4:15 6:54-4:22 Jan 23 7:51-5:25 7:59-5:30 8:08-5:37 7:12-4:45 7:19-4:50

Sept 21 7:12-7:26 7:19-7:31 7:27-7:40 6:33-6:45 6:38-6:52 Nov 24 7:31-4:54 7:41-4:58 7:48-5:07 6:54-4:13 6:59-4:19 Jan 27 7:48-5:30 7:55-5:35 8:05-5:43 7:08-4:50 7:15-4:55

Sept 25 7:17-7:18 7:24-7:24 7:31-7:33 6:38-6:37 6:43-6:44 Nov 28 7:36-4:52 7:46-4:56 7:53-5:04 6:58-4:10 7:04-4:17 Jan 31 7:44-5:36 7:51-5:41 8:01-5:48 7:04-4:55 7:11-5:01

Sept 29 7:21-7:11 7:29-7:16 7:36-7:26 6:42-6:30 6:47-6:37 Dec 2 7:40-4:51 7:50-4:54 7:58-5:03 7:03-4:09 7:08-4:15 Feb 4 7:40-5:41 7:46-5:46 7:56-5:54 6:59-5:01 7:07-5:06

Oct 3 7:26-7:04 7:33-7:09 7:41-7:18 6:47-6:23 6:52-6:30 Dec 6 7:45-4:50 7:54-4:53 8:02-5:02 7:07-4:08 7:12-4:14 Feb 8 7:35-5:47 7:41-5:52 7:51-6:00 6:54-5:06 7:02-5:12

Oct 7 7:31-6:57 7:38-7:02 7:46-7:11 6:52-6:16 6:57-6:23 Dec 10 7:48-4:50 7:58-4:53 8:06-5:01 7:11-4:08 7:16-4:14 Feb 12 7:29-5:52 7:36-5:58 7:46-6:05 6:49-5:12 6:57-5:17

Oct 11 7:35-6:50 7:43-6:55 7:51-7:04 6:57-6:09 7:02-6:16 Dec 14 7:52-4:50 8:01-4:54 8:09-5:02 7:14-4:09 7:20-4:14 Feb 16 7:24-5:58 7:30-6:03 7:40-6:11 6:43-5:17 6:51-5:23

Oct 15 7:40-6:43 7:48-6:48 7:56-7:57 7:02-6:02 7:07-6:09 Dec 18 7:54-4:51 8:04-4:55 8:12-5:03 7:16-4:10 7:22-4:15 Feb 20 7:18-6:03 7:23-6:09 7:34-6:16 6:37-5:23 6:45-5:28 2019-2020 2019-20202019-2020 Season Season Table Table HUNTING SEASONS HuntingHunting Season Season SeptemberSeptember OctoberOctober NovemberNovember DecemberDecember JanuaryJanuary FebruaryFebruary NotesNotes 1 1 Sept. 21Sept. - Jan. 21 5 - Jan. 5 1 1 GrouseGrouse IncludesIncludes prairie chicken,prairie chicken, Sage GrouseSage Grouse SEASONSEASON CLOSED CLOSED sharp-tailedsharp-tailed grouse, grouse, and and PartridgePartridge Sept. 21Sept. - Jan. 21 5 - Jan. 5 ruffed grouse.ruffed grouse. PheasantPheasant Oct. 19Oct. - Jan. 19 5 - Jan. 5 Youth onlyYouth only Oct. 5-9Oct. 5-9 2 Special2 Special permit required.permit required. ResidentsResidents only only Oct. 12-14Oct. 12-14 3 3 Quail Quail Oct. 19Oct. - Jan. 19 5 - Jan. 5 The seasonThe season for the Blackfor the Black CottontailCottontail Rabbit Rabbit Sept. 1Sept. - Feb. 1 29- Feb. 29 Hills FireHills Protection Fire Protection District District Area willArea be finalizedwill be finalized in in Tree SquirrelTree Squirrel Sept. 1Sept. - Feb. 1 29- Feb. 29 SeptemberSeptember or October. or October. Open Open Sept 1 Sept- Oct. 1 31 - Oct. 31 The crowThe hunting crow hunting season season is also isopen also Mar. open 1 -Mar. Apr. 1 30 - Apr. 30 Crow Crow year-roundyear-round statewide statewide outside outside CommonCommon Snipe Snipe Sept. 1Sept. - Oct. 1 31 - Oct. 31 of the Blackof the Hills Black Fire Hills Fire MourningMourning Dove Dove Sept. 1Sept. - Nov. 1 9- Nov. 9 ProtectionProtection Area. Area. Youth onlyYouth only Sept. 21-22Sept. 21-22 Sept. 28Sept. - Dec. 28 10- Dec. 10 4 4 Low PlainsLow NorthPlains North Nonresident Nonresident archery archery season season Low PlainsLow MiddlePlains Middle Sept. 28Sept. - Dec. 28 10- Dec. 10 on publicon landspublic has lands a delayed has a delayed Ducks Ducks Low PlainsLow SouthPlains South Oct. 26Oct. - Jan. 26 7 - Jan. 7 start of startOct. of1. Oct. 1. High PlainsHigh Plains Oct. 12Oct. - Jan. 12 16 - Jan. 16 Unit 1 Unit 1 Sept. 7Sept. - Dec. 7 22- Dec. 22 5 Units 5inUnits Gregory in Gregory County County Unit 2 Unit 2 Nov. 4 Nov.- Feb. 4 16- Feb. 16 have differenthave different season season dates. dates. Geese Geese 2 2 Canada Canada Canada Canada BennettBennett Co. Co. Oct. 19Oct. - Dec. 19 22- Dec. 22 Jan. 11-19Jan. 11-19 Light GeeseLight Geese Sept. 28Sept. - Jan. 28 10 - Jan. 10 6 Only antlerless6 Only antlerless deer tags deer are tags are White-frontedWhite-fronted Geese Geese Sept. 28Sept. - Dec. 28 10- Dec. 10 valid Dec.valid 14-22. Dec. 14-22. SandhillSandhill Crane Crane Sept. 28-Sept. Nov. 28- 24 Nov. 24 7 7 TundraTundra Swan Swan Sept. 28Sept. - Jan. 28 10 - Jan. 10 Season Season dates listed dates in listed table in table Fall TurkeyFall Turkey Nov. 1 Nov.- Jan. 1 31 - Jan. 31 are for areany forelk any licenses. elk licenses. Visit Visit http://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/big-http://gfp.sd.gov/hunting/big- Black HillsBlack Mountain Hills Mountain Lion 3 Lion 3 TO BE TODETERMINED BE DETERMINED game/elk/black-hills.aspxgame/elk/black-hills.aspx to to Aug. 17Aug. - Sep. 17 27- Sep. 27 Oct. 14-31Oct. 14-31 AntelopeAntelope - Archery - Archery view Blackview Hills Black elk Hills elk AntelopeAntelope - Rifle - Rifle Sept. 28Sept. - Oct. 28 13 - Oct. 13 applicationapplication for unit-specific for unit-specific Deer - ArcheryDeer - Archery 4 4 Sept. 1Sept. - Jan. 1 1 - Jan. 1 antlerlessantlerless elk season elk season dates. dates. Deer - MuzzleloaderDeer - Muzzleloader Dec. 1 Dec.- Jan. 1 1 - Jan. 1 Deer - Mentored/ApprenticeDeer - Mentored/Apprentice Sept. 14Sept. - Jan. 14 1 - Jan. 1 Deer - BlackDeer -Hills Black Hills Nov. 1-30Nov. 1-30 Deer - WestDeer -River West5 River 5 Nov. 16Nov. - Dec. 16 1- Dec. 1 Dec. 14-22Dec. 6 14-22 6 Deer - EastDeer River- East River Nov. 23Nov. - Dec. 23 8- Dec. 8 Dec. 14-22Dec. 6 14-22 6 Elk - BlackElk -Hills Black Hills Archery:Archery: Sept. 1-30 Sept. 1-30Rifle: Oct.Rifle: 1-31 Oct. 7 1-31 7

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