Issue Statements
South Dakota Waterfowl AssociationPositions and Actions Statement
Positions Even though it was in response to a legislative rule change, the action taken by the GFP Department in moving licenses from the Missouri River unit to other parts of the state is illegal because the statutory requirement to create additional access and...
SDWA Waterfowl Hunting White Paper
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Response to Nonresident Waterfowl Decision
On June 17th, 2017, the GF&P Commission expanded the number of nonresident waterfowl licenses. The following was the SDWA response to the commission. Contrary to the commission’s June, 2017 decision, we do not accept the 2016 abrogation of the agreement on the...
SDWA Nonresident Waterfowl Licenses: Strategic Plan
Goal: To pass legislation that would replace the current politically driven method of establishing the number of nonresident waterfowl licenses Objective #1: To develop a science-based or otherwise objective criteria to replace the current method of determining the...