Post by Logan on Feb 3, 2016 8:28:52 GMT -6
Public hunting access to South Dakota’s school and public lands could get a little tougher if a recently filed senate bill becomes law.
Senate Bill 78 sponsored by Sen. Betty Olson, R-Prairie City, if passed through the legislature, would require the Game, Fish and Parks Department to pay for every acre of school and public lands shown on the department’s public land hunting atlas or any other map published by a state department that says the land is open to public hunting.
The payments required by the bill would be the same amount the GFP Department currently pays private landowners for land leased into the state’s Walk-in hunting access program.
The bill itself wouldn’t actually close school and public lands to hunting if GFP didn’t make the required payments. That decision still would rest with School and Public Lands Commissioner Ryan Brunner.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/bill-aims-to-take-school-and-public-lands-off-hunting/article_2851acb0-ca3b-11e5-ba29-bb8fc0bfa311.html
Senate Bill 78 sponsored by Sen. Betty Olson, R-Prairie City, if passed through the legislature, would require the Game, Fish and Parks Department to pay for every acre of school and public lands shown on the department’s public land hunting atlas or any other map published by a state department that says the land is open to public hunting.
The payments required by the bill would be the same amount the GFP Department currently pays private landowners for land leased into the state’s Walk-in hunting access program.
The bill itself wouldn’t actually close school and public lands to hunting if GFP didn’t make the required payments. That decision still would rest with School and Public Lands Commissioner Ryan Brunner.
Read more: www.capjournal.com/news/bill-aims-to-take-school-and-public-lands-off-hunting/article_2851acb0-ca3b-11e5-ba29-bb8fc0bfa311.html