2012 central south dakota hunting guide

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2012 CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

HUNTING GUIDE

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WINCHESTER PHEASANT

LOAD $10.97

Welcome Hunters

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PubliSher Steve Baker

Managing editor Lance Nixon

advertiSing director April Pullman

art director Melanie Handl

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resources available. Capital Journal assumes no responsibility or liability for errors, changes or

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South Dakota pheasant numbers up 18 percent ...........................6

Asian bird is rooted in South Dakota culture, economy...............7

CRP pays off for pheasants in eastern South Dakota ................. 10

Taking care of business ......................................................................... 13

Partridge harvest highest in some Missouri River counties ..... 15

The year of the diagnosis...................................................................... 16

Prairie chickens, sharptails in good shape on Fort Pierre National Grassland .................................................................................. 20

Finding home ........................................................................................... 24

Training for the hunt .............................................................................. 28

Missouri River corridor has the most pheasants for 2012: Chamberlain, Pierre tops in the state in surveys .......................... 30

GFP Offers Continuing Education Hours To Teachers................. 32

Big game hunting over bait prohibited .......................................... 33

Deer Licenses Reduced, Refunds Offered Due to Die-Offs ...... 34


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The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Wildlife division annual August pheasant brood counts indicate that the statewide pheasant population per mile is 18 percent higher this year than in 2011.

South Dakota’s 2012 pheasant season begins on Oct. 20.

Jeff Vonk, secretary of the Game, Fish and Parks Department, said the survey results showed pheasant numbers grew in many areas of the state due to a mild winter and ideal weather during the nesting and brood rearing season.

“The mild winter of 2011-12 was the boost that we needed after two tough winters that took their toll on pheasant survival and reproductive potential,” Vonk said. “It goes to show that with the combination of good habitat and the right weather conditions, pheasants can be quite prolifi c.”

Vonk said despite the pheasant population decline in 2011, over 1.5 million pheasants were harvested last year and this year’s counts indicate that 2012 could be an exceptional year for pheasant hunting.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard said the pheasant survey is good news for the state.

“Pheasant hunting is important to the economic well-being of South Dakota, and it also helps support the strong outdoor heritage of our state,” Daugaard said.

Since 2009 the South Dakota Department of Tourism has marketed pheasant hunting with its Rooster Rush campaign. Eileen Bertsch, rep-resentative for the South Dakota Offi ce of Tourism, said the campaign en-courages communities to promote pheasant hunting in the state.

“It’s really been very popular,” Bertsch said. “It’s turned out to be quite a competition.”

The Department of Tourism also advertises in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska to encourage hunters to come to South Dakota.

Following Rooster Rush, one South Dakota community is given the Cacklin’ Community Award during the Governor’s Conference on Tourism. Communi-ties are judged based on their advertising and promotional events, commu-nity participation, eff orts to welcome hunters and creativity.

Lois Ries, Convention and Visitor’s Bureau director for the Pierre Area Cham-ber of Commerce, said the Chamber partners with South Dakota Tourism for Rooster Rush and has many diff erent events planned this year.

“We meet and greet hunters coming in on planes at the airport … at Da-kotamart, Wal-Mart and Runnings,” Ries said.

Residents may have already seen one addition to the 2012 Rooster Rush campaign — the Pierre Chamber’s mascot for Rooster Rush.

“We have a mascot this year, his name is Rudy Rooster and he’ll be traveling around the area,” Ries said. “We’re doing it now to get people in the mood for that season.”

South dakota pheasant numbers up 18 percent

pheasant brood counts indicate that the statewide pheasant population per

“The mild winter of 2011-12 was the boost that we needed after two tough winters that took their toll on pheasant survival and reproductive potential,” Vonk said. “It goes to show that with the combination of good habitat and the

The Department of Tourism also advertises in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa

Following Rooster Rush, one South Dakota community is given the Cacklin’

ber of Commerce, said the Chamber partners with South Dakota Tourism for

Residents may have already seen one addition to the 2012 Rooster Rush

“We have a mascot this year, his name is Rudy Rooster and he’ll be traveling around the area,” Ries said. “We’re doing it now to get people in the mood for

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asian bird is rooted in South dakota culture, economy

by John hines [email protected]

On Oct. 30, 1919, South Dakota opened its fi rst ever pheasant hunting season, and 1,000 hunt-ers harvested 200 male pheasants, called roost-ers, during the one-day hunt. Five years later, more than 50,000 hunters collected 250,000 pheasants — pheasant hunting had taken fl ight in South Dakota.

South Dakota is now widely considered the premier pheasant hunting area in the United States. Pheasant hunters now spend more than $200 million annually during the 79-day-long hunting season. More specifi cally, hunters spent $226 million 2011, $185 million of which came from hunters from other states.

Though the ring-necked pheasant is the state bird of South Dakota, the bird is not native to the state or even to the country. South Dakota is one of just three states with a non-native state bird — Delaware and Rhode Island are the other two.

According to the South Dakota Department of Tourism, the Chinese ring-necked pheasant was brought into the U.S. in the late 1800s and was successfully introduced to South Dakota in 1908. By 1919, the fi rst sanctioned hunting season, the pheasant population had grown to over 100,000,

and it continued to grow.

During the 1940s the pheasant popula-tion was consistently over 10 million. In

1944, the pheasant hunting season saw all-

time highs in length of the season and daily harvest lim-

it. That year, the season lasted 163 days with a daily limit of 10 pheasants, including

fi ve female pheasants, called hens.

The state has not allowed the harvest of hens since 1946, and the daily limit for roosters has been three or less since 1964. Travis Runia, up-land game biologist with the South Dakota De-partment of Game, Fish and Parks, said pheas-ant population growth is determined more by weather and nesting conditions than by hunting.

“When you’re only shooting roosters you’re not going to infl uence the population,” Runia said. “Populations were higher [in the past] be-cause there was probably much more grassland.”

During the soil bank program from 1956 to 1965, which encouraged farmers to retire ag-ricultural land for up to 10 years, the pheasant population was higher on average than the de-cade before the program began and the years following its end.

The Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP, began in 1985, pheasant numbers in South Da-kota have generally been higher than they were in the years after the soil bank program ended — though not as high as during the 1940s and 1960s. The CRP encourages farmers to convert certain lands into vegetative cover, which pro-vides pheasants with places to live and breed.

According to the Department of Game, Fish and Parks’ 2012 Pheasant Brood Survey, the pop-ulation of pheasant is expected to be higher this year than last year due to favorable winter and spring breeding conditions. The increased popu-lation could mean increased income for South Dakota communities that rely on resident and out-of-state pheasant hunters.

Lois Ries, Convention and Visitors Bureau di-rector for the Pierre Chamber of Commerce, said pheasant season serves as the year’s grand fi nale for tourism as winter approaches.

“We have many lodges and reserves that do quite well,” Ries said. “Last year our

numbers were good, and this year

they’ll be bet-ter.”

Last year $6.7 million was spent in Hughes County on pheasant hunting — $5.3 million of which came from out-of-state hunters. The aver-age out-of-state pheasant hunter spent $1,950 in South Dakota while the average resident hunter spent $585.

The South Dakota pheasant hunting season begins Oct. 20, 2012, and ends Jan. 6, 2013.


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A master’s degree student at South Dakota State University has assembled the science to say what hunters already know: CRP lands are vitally important for pheasants.

Josh White, who is already working for Pheasants Forever in Idaho, formally defended his research earli-er in September and will graduate this December with a degree in wildlife and fisheries sciences from SDSU.

White’s study looked at 84 routes used by biologists to do August brood surveys east of the Missouri River in South Dakota. Each route is 30 miles long. He then correlated pheasant locations with other sources of in-formation about what was going on in the landscape around those locations.

“We created these habitat maps to assess land use within a 1,000-meter buffer of a pheasant location,” White said.

One take-home message is that CRP has a greater or lesser effect on pheasants by region. It’s very impor-tant in the eastern parts of South Dakota, where CRP represents the dominant nesting cover in a landscape dominated by row crops. But near the Missouri River in central South Dakota, CRP is still important, but it is only one factor that makes for good pheasant popu-lations. Wheat production and rangeland, or cattle

production, provide additional nesting cover and thus contribute toward pheasant populations.

The study also quantified the effect of CRP as mea-sured in pheasant production.

“We found that for every additional 94 hectares of CRP, there were an additional five pheasants produced on the landscape,” White said.

A hectare is equal to 2.47 acres, so 94 hectares is about 232 acres.

White said the differences in pheasant production in different parts of South Dakota highlight differences biologists have already observed. In areas where row crops make up 70 percent or more of land use, and grass makes up 30 percent or less, species such as pheasants don’t fare as well.

Travis Runia, a senior upland game biologist for the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks, said White’s study was labor-intensive because of all the mapping of data required to assess where the pheasants were and what the landscape was like around them.

“It was really important to quantify that relation-ship between CRP and the pheasants, and that’s what Josh’s study was all about,” he said.


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The hunting season brings them in to the Teton River Traders Gun Shop in Fort Pierre and as a profes-sional gunsmith, and one of the owners of the shop, Harens is one of the people who helps make sure the hunting season goes off as planned.

“We keep a lot of parts around. There’s a lot of times when we can help people in pretty quick fashion,” he said.

Harens grew up in Yankton and studied gunsmith-ing at Trinidad State Junior College in Colorado. Fort Pierre is a great location to be in business because of

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A covey of partridge exploding at your feet will scare the daylights out of a new hunter more effectively than a ring-neck will – and very likely get out of firearm ranger faster.

These are birds you’ll be glad to pop with a 12-gauge if you roust them out of a fencerow while hunting pheasants. But that’s more firepower than you need. For those occa-sions when you might find yourself specifically going af-ter a covey of partridge that you know frequents the same area day after day, trade in your 12 for something lighter. This is where that 20-gauge earns its place in the gun cabi-net.

Biologists say the gray and chukar partridge are both relatives of the pheasant, and like ringnecks, have been in-troduced from Eurasia.

The gray, or Hungarian, partridge – or “Huns,” as some hunters call them – has a rust-colored face, and a gray chest with a dark colored U-shaped blotch on its under-side. The legs are gray. The beak is dark.

The chukar is similar but has a red bill and feet and sports a black necklace.

Partridge can be found in grassy and agricultural ar-eas, and seem fond of hanging out near shelterbelts and woodlots. They’re notoriously flighty and may tend to flush before you get close to them. Let your dog work with you and you’ll at least know there’s a covey in front of you; but getting close is up to you.

The good news for central South Dakota: The coun-ties in which the harvest per 100 square miles is greater than 25 birds include Hughes, Greg-ory, Dewey, Walworth and Corson, along with Codington, farther east, and Perkins and Lawrence, farther west.

Counties where the harvest is still respectable but not quite as good – 10 to 25 birds – include Stanley, Lyman, Hand, Haakon, Brule, Douglas, Charles Mix, Clark, Brown, McPherson, Campbell, Harding, Butte and Meade.

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ON THE FORT PIERRE NATIONAL GRASSLAND – You know you have a grouse hunting tradition when your dogs know what’s up when you pack your gear in September.

Mark Carrington of Marshall, Mich., has been bringing his dogs to help him hunt the big grassy plains of South Dakota for about a decade now, and his dogs know what’s in front of them when the pickup points west from the state of Michigan. He hunts with a pair of Llewellin setters named Tank and Gunny.

“They know the minute we load up the truck,” Carrington said. “They start whining in Minnesota.”

He camps on the Fort Pierre National Grassland and hits the prairies early next day, this year with a hunting buddy, Gordon Bollheimer of Jackson, Mich. Bollheimer was using his Remington 11-87 semiautomatic. Carrington, as always, uses his Ital-ian-made Zoli over-and-under.

“You only get two shots with these birds any-way,” he says.

Over the years he’s also brought his sons, Pat and Christopher, to hunt with him here, or other hunting buddies. He shows off the Fort Pierre Na-tional Grassland like it’s his own private shooting preserve.

“I found out about this through an article in Field & Stream about 10 or 15 years ago,” he said on Saturday, after he and Bollheimer had hiked over a section of land and flushed perhaps 20 sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chickens in their first hour-and-a-half in the field.

He confides that he wishes people wouldn’t publicize it quite so much, but the Fort Pierre Na-tional Grassland is still a well-kept secret. There’s only one other party of hunters in sight on the whole big arc of prairie as he stops to talk about his morning hunt.

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Carrington hunts ruffed grouse in Michigan and only hunts in one other state – South Dakota – for his favorite quarry. The grouse the prairie affords, sharp-tails and prairie chickens, are different, yet madden-ingly the same. Carrington has never hunted pheas-ants in South Dakota.

“Pheasants are too easy,” he says. “Dedicated grouse hunters are a different breed of guy.

It’s a great cardiovascular workout. I can remember days when we put on probably 15, 20 miles a day. The dogs probably put on 50 miles a day.”

And the grouse, Carrington notes – either its woodland cousins or these birds here on the prairie – seem to fill a niche in the ecosystem by teaching hunters humility. They flit out of range when they’re barely in range, it seems.

“They really are a challenge,” says Carrington. “It’s definitely long-range gunning unless the dog goes on point up close, and then we know we’ve got a better chance.”

Carrington was worried this year that the drought

of 2012 may have hurt grouse populations or thinned out the cover, but he was pleasantly surprised at how well the grassland and the birds are doing despite the dry conditions. He wanted this to be a good year; because 2012 was also the year of the diagnosis.

“I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s six months ago,” Carrington said. “This may be one of the last few times I’ll be able to hunt. I may be able to get a few more years out of my legs. It hasn’t affected my shooting yet but writing is difficult for me.”

He’s come to depend on Advil, or Ibuprofen, to manage pain.

And that’s the best he can do for now – unless someone comes up with a way to bottle up the Fort Pierre National Grassland and dispense it in tablet form to grouse hunters who wish they could take away every sweeping mile of this landscape when they drive back home. That could help keep a guy healthy.

“You live in a beautiful part of the world,” Car-rington says on opening day.

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Prairie chickens, sharptails in good shape on Fort Pierre National Grassland

district ranger ruben leal of the u.S. Forest Service’s Fort Pierre national grassland said sharp-tailed grouse and prairie chicken populations were good in brood surveys earlier this year, but the drought may have had an impact on populations since then.


ON THE FORT PIERRE NATIONAL GRASSLAND – The summer of 2012 has baked the native grass, but drought is nothing new to prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse that are also native to these prairies.

Hunters who put in the time to hunt the rolling plains of central South Dakota – a sideshow to South Dakota’s pheasant season for some out-of-state hunters in Oc-tober – can still find the birds they’ve come for. But re-source managers caution that cover is not as plentiful as in some years and that fire danger could be extreme in some locations.

“We want to make sure the hunters know it’s really dry,” said District Ranger Ruben Leal of the Forest Ser-vice’s Fort Pierre National Grassland.

Leal said spring surveys showed good populations of birds, but the drought of 2012 has raised questions about how well the birds have managed in extremely dry conditions. They depend on dew for some of their necessary moisture and that hasn’t been plentiful in 2012. In addition, some ponds that are available in other years are dry this year.

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chickens are closely related native birds. They’re found across the shortgrass prairie of central and western South Dakota and rank among the most popular game bird species in the state. State Game, Fish and Parks sta-tistics say that in 2008, 12,600 hunters harvested more than 48,000 birds.

South Dakota’s season for the birds is statewide, but population densities for sharptails is greatest in the western two-thirds of the state. For prairie chickens, population densities are greatest in a corridor on either side of the Missouri River from about Potter and Dewey counties south through Sully, Hughes, Stanley, Hyde, Jones, Lyman, Buffalo, Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory, Tripp, Mellette and Todd.

Though difficult at first glance for a newcomer to tell apart, those who have hunted them for a while can spot the differences. Game managers say sharptails have a relatively short tail with two central feathers somewhat longer and darker than the outer tail feathers – thus the name “sharptail.” In contrast prairie chickens have a tail that is short, dark, and rounded.

South Dakota also has a season for ruffed grouse, but they’re found mainly in the Black Hills.

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Some of the best hunting for prairie chickens and sharptails may be on the Fort Pierre National Grassland.

That’s due to the fact that the U.S. Forest Service man-ages the Fort Pierre National Grassland specifi cally for prairie chickens and sharptails.

“We manage for those birds because they are consid-ered ‘management indicator species.’ As long as their populations are doing well, it’s an indication that we have a healthy grassland here,” said District Ranger Ru-ben Leal in Fort Pierre.

The National Grassland may be one of the better plac-es to hunt during this drought year because there will be more cover than in many locations. The Fort Pierre National Grassland has grazing agreements with pro-ducers and has been careful to manage with the prairie chickens and sharptails in mind.

“We’ve actually been grazing moderately for the past several years. With our rotation systems, we’ve left a lot of cover out there,” Leal said.

Carol Erickson, administrative support assistant for the Fort Pierre National Grassland, said people from 19 additional states were requesting information about the grassland in September 2010, a fairly typical year; people from 29 additional states were requesting in-formation in October; and people from 20 additional states were requesting information in November. Inter-est peaks during South Dakota’s pheasant season, when many out-of-state pheasant hunters try their hands at prairie chickens and sharptails.

“They want to have that double experience where they could hunt both pheasants and grouse at the same time,” Erickson said.

A cautionary note: The state Game, Fish and Parks De-partment warns that hunting grouse and prairie chick-ens can be an exercise in exercise, since the birds hang out in larger coveys in native grassland and tend to be fl ighty. You may have to walk long distances. Chances of success are better if you’re hunting with a good dog.

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Nobody in central South Dakota lifted an eyebrow in 2009 when Outdoor Life magazine studied the data from 200 towns and ranked Pierre, South Da-kota, No. 8 in its list of the “Best Places to Live.”

Of course Outdoor Life writes for an audience of hunters and anglers, as its comments about Pierre made clear. Among other things, it singled out the city as the capital of “arguably the most hunter-friendly state in the country.”

Anecdotally, South Dakotans know that the hunter-friendly attitude – and, of course, plenty of things to hunt and fish – is enough to lure some outdoorsy folks to relocate.

“Over the years I’ve talked to any number of people who’ve moved to Pierre partly for the hunting and fishing,” says Cody Williams, co-owner of Teton River Traders Gun Shop.

“They come to visit, come to hunt, come to fish,” said Lois Ries of the Pierre’s Chamber of Commerce’s Convention and Visitors Bureau. “And after a few years they fall in love with it.”

Ries adds that it’s not unusual for area employers to make note of the hunting and fishing opportu-nities when recruiting employees. Similarly, Ries points out that it’s not unusual for young people who have grown up in the Pierre area to choose to stay in the area, in part outdoor recreation is part of their culture.

That’s one of the factors that made 23-year-old Will Clark return to Pierre after graduating in spring 2012 with a degree in construction management and a business minor from South Dakota State University. He’s planning to work with his fa-ther’s business, Brad Clark Electric, with the idea of taking it over some day.

But he spends his free time in his fishing boat or poking through fencerows with his Benelli semi-automatic and his bird dog, Stella.

“Everything I like to do Pierre has to offer,” Will says. “Basically every person in Pierre can be at a public hunting area in 10 minutes. No matter where you live, you can be on the water in half an hour or an hour. That’s what’s really cool about Pierre. Not everyone likes to hunt and fish, obviously. But being on the river, you can canoe and kayak, there are places to hike.”

The region’s outdoors amenities are also luring well-established profession-als who are at or near retirement.


Who are these people?They’re people such as Gary and Connie Grittner of Fort

Pierre. Gary grew up in Minnesota but attended school at North Dakota State University and began to look west for hunting during the years he worked in the defense industry on the East Coast.

“We’ve been sportsmen and hunters and fi shers all our lives. We found this ranch out in Wyoming and hunted out there for years,” Grittner said. “Connie and I would come back to Minnesota and get the party together and drive to Wyo-ming. And, of course, between Minnesota and Wyoming is South Dakota. That was the real genesis of our arrival in South Dakota. We kept seeing all these pheasants along the high-ways and thought maybe we should be hunting pheasants.”

The Grittners eventually bought land for hunting pheas-ants on in Brown County; then a place to live in Fort Pierre; then more land for hunting near Vivian.

It isn’t only hunting and fi shing that drew the Grittners to Pierre – part of it is their interest in politics and their proxim-ity to a state capital; part of it is their interest in the American West. “From Fort Pierre, you can touch history,” Grittner says.

But access to some of the country’s best hunting and fi sh-ing is an important consideration, he said.

Similarly, Dan Ferry, a London- and Washington, D.C.-based international litigation attorney who has tried cases on every continent except Antarctica, was drawn to South Dakota by his love of upland game hunting.

“I started coming out here in I think it was 1989 with a good friend of mine,” Ferry said. “He fl ew out here a couple of times and told me what fun it was to shoot wild pheasants. I had never hunted pheasants. I have always been a bird hunter – ducks, quail. I shot prairie chickens in Missouri growing up.”

But hunting pheasants was a whole new experience – no less than life-changing. Ferry came out to South Dakota for three days at fi rst; then a week; then twice a year; and then he quit going back. He now lives just outside of Pierre.

“The long and short of it is, I got tired of not being able to hunt when I had an opening to hunt,” says Ferry. “Living in Washington or the near environs, you had to go the Eastern Shore of Maryland if you wanted to hunt. That is a good three- to three-and-a-half-hour trip, depending on where you went.”

Those were among the factors that made Ferry fi nally choose South Dakota as a place to live starting in 2003.

his view of his adopted state?“People here who have never left the state have no idea

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It might be one of the best views of Pierre, but you have to climb the river bluffs to get to it, and conditions aren’t always ideal for sight-seeing – especially if you’ve got a frame pack on your back carrying 40 pounds of scuba weights.

But that’s a way of life if you’re training for your next big hunt in Alaska, which is what Gary and Linda Larson have been doing off and on for about the past eight years now.

The two have already bagged mountain goat and Dall sheep in Alas-ka. Next year they’re going back after moose and grizzly bear.

“The mountain climb-ing adds to the expe-rience,” says Gary, a self-employed certified public accountant who audits cities and school districts in his other life. “Especially in Alaska, mountain climbing can get you places. It gets you where the game is. The game is up high to escape the predators.”

When training, the two often start at 3 or 4 in the morning and make multiple trips up and down the bluffs around Pierre. They wear hiking boots and ski poles to assist in the climb; and sometimes they bring along their old dog, Buck.

When they’re actually in the field hunting, Gary uses a 7-pound Kimber .338-caliber mountain rifle. Linda uses a 7.5-pound Ruger .338 mountain rifle. They’re shorter than conventional rifles.

But Alaska isn’t the only destination. Mak-ing multiple trips up and down the river bluffs around Pierre also keeps the two in shape for hunts closer to home.

“We hunt deer ev-ery year in the Missouri River breaks, usually in Sully County, so we train for that. It’s a lot of hills, similar to this,” Gary said.

Wherever they hunt, the country is frequent-ly so rugged that they quarter their game in the field and carry the quarters out on the pack frames on their backs.

They started training years ago with only 5 or 10 pounds of added weight in the packs, and gradually worked their way up to 60 pounds while training for their sheep hunt.

“It isn’t for everyone. It’s actually a very good feeling. It’s a total body workout, that’s for sure,” says Linda. “We kind of got addicted to it.”

But it’s unusual enough in Pierre that it sometimes attracts at-tention.

“We’ve been stopped by just about every Police officer in town,” says Gary. “They think we’re homeless. Sometimes people ask me if I need a ride, or need food. Sometimes they just call the Police.”

People are more understanding when they learn that all this toiling up and down bluffs has to do with hunting.

The Larsons intend to retire to Alaska in a few years.

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gary and linda larson of Pierre, shown here with their dog, buck, train for mountain hunting in alaska by making multiple trips up and down the river bluffs around Pierre wearing frame packs loaded with weights.



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South Dakota’s best pheasant hunting for 2012 may be in the Chamberlain, Pierre, Winner and Mobridge areas, in that order, if brood survey results are a good indicator.

The numbers announced Wednesday by South Dakota’s Department of Game, Fish and Parks show the Chamberlain area leading the state with 10.81 pheasants per mile, the only double-digit reading in the state. That tally is actually down from last year’s 11.51 pheasants per mile in the same area.

Pierre is not far behind with 9.53 pheasants per mile in 2012, up from 9.15 last year; Winner stands at 7.35, up from 7.16; and Mobridge has 6.71 birds per mile, up from 5.73.

No other locations in the state show more than 5 pheas-ants per mile, which helps pull the state average going into the 2012 season down to 4.21 pheasants per mile.

The pheasant season traditionally opens on the third Sat-urday in October, which is on Oct. 20 for the 2012 season.

The 2012 survey’s lowest numbers were in the Yankton and Sisseton areas, where surveys noted 0.62 and 0.53

pheasants per mile, respectively.

Other locations were Huron, 4.10 pheasants per mile; Ab-erdeen, 3.87; Mitchell, 3.91; Watertown, 2.55; western South Dakota, 2.24; Brookings, 1.93; and Sioux Falls, 1.12.

Biologists get their data from 107, 30-mile pheasant brood routes across South Dakota where there are enough pheas-ants to survey. Routes are surveyed from July 25 through Aug. 15 each year using standardized methods on mornings when weather conditions are best for observing pheasants.

The department’s survey report suggested hunters may do better than in 2011, when they bagged 1.55 million roosters.

“Our survey results suggest the potential exists for in-creased hunter success and harvest from last year. Hunt-ers should be aware that emergency haying and grazing of CRP lands has occurred this year due to drought conditions. Many fields of CRP including those open for public hunting have been partially hayed or grazed. Pheasants (and hunt-ing pressure) may be more concentrated since less huntable habitat exists,” the department’s report says.

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PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota teachers who need continuing education hours can now attain them through two programs sponsored by the Game, Fish and Parks Department.

Not only will teachers receive hours to apply toward re-cer-tification, but they also may become eligible to receive thou-sands of dollars worth of free outdoor recreation equipment.

Teachers have two options to get their continuing educa-tion hours through GFP. By attending and successfully com-pleting either a National Archery in the Schools Program or HuntSAFE in the Schools training, teachers make themselves eligible for hours.

“GFP is extremely pleased to offer these training opportuni-ties to South Dakota teachers and schools," said Jason Kool, GFP's HuntSAFE Coordinator. "Participating in these programs not only helps teachers with re-certification, but will also be an asset to their students and their communities.”

Archery training sessions are currently scheduled for Aber-deen on Oct. 13 and Rapid City on Oct. 19.

Training sessions for the HuntSAFE in the Schools Program are scheduled for Sept. 19 in Pierre and Oct. 15 in Sioux Falls.

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A bait station is a location where grains, fruits, vegeta-bles, nuts, hay, minerals or any other natural food materials, commercial products containing natural food materials, or by-products of such materials are placed or maintained as an attractant to big game animals for the purpose of hunt-ing.

The use of scents alone does not constitute a bait sta-tion. In addition, this restriction does not apply to foods that have not been placed or gathered by an individual and result from normal environmental conditions or accepted farming, forest management wildlife food plantings, or-chard management, or similar land management activities.

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Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease has been confirmed in white-tailed deer, and many of the deer deaths being re-ported by the public are suspected to be the result of that disease.

In response to the disease, all unsold licenses will be re-moved from the following deer hunting units for the West River deer season: Bennett County: 11A-09 and 11B-17; Greg-ory County: 30A-19 and 30B-19; and Jackson County: 39B-09. In addition, 200 licenses will be removed for Meade County: 49B-09.

“As the department continues to monitor the outbreak of EHD over the next couple of weeks, we will provide addition-al recommendations to the Game, Fish and Parks Commis-sion at its October meeting to address East River deer units,” said GFP Secretary Jeff Vonk. “Currently, the department plans to recommend that the commission remove all unsold licenses in Bon Homme, Hutchinson, and Yankton counties and make significant reductions to leftover licenses in Brule and Charles Mix counties for the second draw of the East River deer season. Between now and the next commission

meeting, we will continue our surveillance efforts with the possibility of additional license reductions.”

Aside from conducting ground surveillance and collecting reports from the public, GFP is also using aerial flights to help determine the severity of deer mortalities.

“Reports of dead deer are coming from across the state, and in some instances landowners are telling traditionally hosted hunters that opportunities will be limited,” Vonk said. “With that in mind, GFP is notifying deer hunters that they can voluntarily return a deer license for any season prior to the start of that respective season and receive a full refund.”

Hunters desiring a refund for a deer license should send their license, including all associated tags, to: GFP Licensing Office; 20641 SD Highway 1806; Fort Pierre, SD 57532.

EHD is common in white-tailed deer and is typically de-tected in late summer or early fall. The virus is spread by a biting midge and causes extensive internal hemorrhaging. Many deer exhibit no clinical signs and appear perfectly healthy, while others may have symptoms such as respira-tory distress, fever, and swelling of the tongue. With highly virulent strains of the virus, deer can be dead within 1-3 days. In an attempt to combat the high fever, affected deer are of-ten found in low-lying areas or near rivers, ponds and other waters.

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