The South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Commission will be holding a public comment hearing at their meeting Thursday in Aberdeen on proposed restrictions to snaring on public lands. South Dakota Stockgrowers Association Executive Director Silvia Christen says the proposed rule would make it difficult for producers to control predator on public lands.

She says the rule has come forward because a hunting dog was trapped in a snare during pheasant hunting season. Christen says it’s one thing to put restrictions on snaring where hunting is occurring, it’s another to do it on public lands.

Christen says the proposed rule isn’t reasonable and would create predator control problems for the state’s livestock producers.

Christen says the Stockgrowers sent a letter to the Game Fish and Parks Commission outlining their concerns and opposition to the rule.