By Bart PfankuchSouth Dakota News WatchAD0:23SKIPhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.478.1_en.html#goog_1748814541
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a South Dakota News Watch story on the state’s predator control bounty program. Two more partsof the story will be published in the days to come.
A state-sanctioned pheasant protection program that pays South Dakota youthand adults $10 for every raccoon, skunk and other predator they trap has led to the killing of more than 134,000 animals in the past three years with no scientific evidence the program is working.
Known as the Nest Predator Bounty Program, the effort to boost pheasant and duck populations by paying trappers to kill animals that eat the eggs and hatchlings of pheasants and ducks began in 2019 and recently completed its third year of operation. The program that takes place for a few months during the spring pheasant nesting season has been approved for another year in…
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