game fish and parks

South Dakota boat owners, visitors to Custer State Park, users of the Mickelson Trail and campers making telephone reservations will pay more in 2016. The state Game, Fish and Parks Commission approved the four sets of fee increases Friday. There wasn't a dissenting vote from any...

From a revenue standpoint, the state Game, Fish and Parks Commission received good news Friday. More non-resident hunters have purchased small-game licenses for pursuing pheasants in South Dakota so far this fall. Through October, approximately 4,200 more non-residents hunters...

A story on Page A8 of Friday's edition incorrectly reported the sale price of Roy Lake Resort. The asking price for the Roy Lake Resort operations is $975,000.

The South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks is hoping to add some flower power across the state. Brian Pauly — a GF&P private lands habitat biologist — said his department is promoting a new seed mix this year for a program that promotes planting food plots...

PIERRE (AP) — The incoming secretary of the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks has been cleared of ethics allegations in Alaska, although critics say it was due to a technicality. Gov. Dennis Daugaard last week announced that South Dakota native Kelly Hepler will...

PIERRE (AP) — South Dakota hunters and ranchers have another month to offer their thoughts on how the state's elk herd should be managed in the coming years. The Game, Fish and Parks' Division of Wildlife extended the deadline to submit comments on its draft five-year elk management...

FORT PIERRE -- Open spearfishing for game species definitely won't be allowed statewide, the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission decided Thursday. But dogs might be allowed for hunting mountain lions outside the Black Hills. Both proposals began as citizen petitions to the...

YANKTON — South Dakota officials have classified Lewis and Clark Lake as "suspect" for contamination by zebra mussels. The state's Game, Fish and Parks Department says a single adult zebra mussel has been found at the Midway boat ramp on the lake near Yankton. John Lott...

South Dakota pheasant hunters will have the new 160-acre Gideon Game Production Area to explore in northwest Moody County this pheasant season. The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department purchased the land using Pittman-Robertson dollars, contributions from the Minnehaha and...

PIERRE -- Trying to rebuild South Dakota's deer populations, state wildlife biologists want fewer does taken by hunters during the 2014 rifle seasons this fall. Their plan calls for greatly reducing two-tag and three-tag licenses, especially those that can be used only for taking...

SYLVAN LAKE -- In many South Dakota counties this fall, there won't be any firearms licenses available specifically for hunting only antlerless deer such as does and fawns, under proposals made Thursday by the state Game, Fish and Parks Commission. The commissioners are following...