South Dakota hunting licenses sales drop by 26,000

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[Here’s an idea Governor, drop the bounty on predators and your state won’t need to raise so much money from hunting. This sounds like pimp or madam complaining if fewer john shelling out for his or her prostitutes.]
November 8, 2019

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Officials say South Dakota has sold nearly 26,000 fewer hunting licenses this year, which has cost the state more than $1 million in lost revenue.

State Department of Game, Fish and Parks official Heather Villa told the Rapid City Journal that the long winter, flooding and a decline in the pheasant population could be to blame. However, she acknowledged that the drop in license sales could also be a continuation of a decades-long decline in hunting, trapping and fishing.

The department generally gets about half its budget from license revenue, and it adopted a resolution last month to examine the recruitment, retention and…

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