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Legislative Committee Rejects Game, Fish & Parks Rules

Legislative Committee Rejects Game, Fish & Parks Rules

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Rules proposed by the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Department giving rewards for habitat ideas and guidelines for the Nest Predator Program were rejected by the Rules Review Committee of the legislature this week.

Committee vice chair Representative Jean Hunhoff of Yankton says all they saw were some generic rules…

Hunhoff says the lines of authority for the programs were fuzzy…

Hunhoff says they will hear from Game, Fish & Parks again at a later meeting….

Both the habitat and Nest Predator programs were proposals from Governor Kristi Noem.

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