Noem Funds Second Century Habitat Initiative
Completes Work on Bills Passed During 2019 Legislative Session
PIERRE, S.D. – Governor Kristi Noem yesterday signed SB176, a bill to increase habitat programs and strengthen the future of pheasant hunting in South Dakota.
“The first century of pheasant hunting put South Dakota on the map as a destination for every hunter,” said Noem. “In recent years, however, pheasant numbers have dropped and habitat lands have diminished. The bill I signed this week is a step to reverse those trends. By investing in habitat preservation and expansion, we can preserve our outdoor traditions and ensure the second century of pheasant hunting is as great as the first.”
Each year, 81,000 non-resident pheasant hunters spend more than $156 million in South Dakota – a significant engine to tourism, the state’s second largest industry.
“As South Dakota’s Sportsman in Chief, I’m committed to expanding habitat and pheasant hunting opportunities for the next generation,” Noem continued. “My Second Century Initiative gets kids outside, protects our native grasslands, and continues our state’s incredible outdoor legacy.”
SB176 allocates $1 million that may be matched with private donations and federal conservation programs. The money will be administered by officials with the Second Century Habitat Fund for the protection and enhancement of wildlife habitat.
SB176 goes into effect on June 28.
Noem signed the following legislation on March 29:
• HB1186 – An act to repeal the termination of the juvenile detention cost-sharing fund
• SB176 – An act to make an appropriation for the second century habitat fund
With these bill signings, the governor has completed her work on the bills passed during the 2019 legislative session.
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Are there other outdoor sports that will benefit from SB176? Is there a total for how much non-residents spend during turkey, deer, elk and big horn hunting seasons?
Many SD residents work to increase other animal populations, expand and protect habitats other than for pheasants. Is the “Sportsman in Chief” willing to support and strengthen the preservation of other outdoor traditions and legacies?
Why only pheasants… $$$?
Is the GFP impressed with this bill?
I am going to lean towards $0 from out of state in regards to Big Horn and Elk hunting. Mainly because those are resident only tags. I would guess turkey and deer are very small compared to pheasant hunting.
No mention of how she passed this? By abusing the style and form veto to get the bill to read how she would like? Ok then.
@6:03 – You should lean towards doing more research. Did you know the largest hunter-killed bighorn sheep was taken in Pennington county last year? Not being a hunter of big game I’d guess you don’t know how much of an impact that has.
Do you know how Noem plans to fund her 2nd Century Habitat Fund? I doubt it. Let me help get you started…
“We have put 70-80 sheep back on the mountain with that money,” Jesse Kurtenbach, a South Dakota hunter, told KOTA TV. “Why do we have to be the first state that starts giving that money (money made from the sheep tag auction) to pheasants or pheasant habitat. They’re not even a native species to South Dakota.”
Rumor has it Noem acted liked a bully during discussions for SB176? Not many, including some from GFP, were impressed with her do as I say or screw you attitude.
Of course I know. It’s one of two tags available. So my point stands, $0 are made from out of state hunters in regards to Big Horn sheep hunting because the tags are only available to residents. I hunt in 5 different states every year spending over 20k in other states. I shoot on average 3 deer a year in SD alone and have yet to get a SD elk tag. Don’t try to tell me I don’t know about hunting. Going back to the question about out of state hunters spending money in SD in regards to elk or big Horn doesn’t happen because they can’t hunt in SD for those animals.
@ 8:41 – Two tags? Do you know how many tags, since 2013, have been auctioned to non-residents? I doubt it.
“Last year, a bighorn sheep tag holder took a world record ram in the Badlands and it’s anticipated that, because of that record harvest, the tag will take in anywhere from $300,000 to $500,000. Only one tag is auctioned off each year and only three tags are even available.” – gohunt
As it stands, you do not know much about SD big game hunting.
Non-residents do come to SD to hunt big game and spend money. There are SD outfitters who guide out-of-state hunters for ram and elk and they do not offer services for free. Noem attempting to take money from big game hunting traditions and legacies is not impressing many voters.
Well since they only auction 1 a year, and this year and last year went to a SD resident, at most 4. It sold for 89k just recently so your numbers are way off. Elk is not available to out of state hunters. There are no outfitters dedicated to hunting elk and sheep for out of staters.
SMH – So you don’t know how many ram tags have been auctioned to non-residents. Yes, there are outfitters dedicated to hunting ram. I’m going to use your guessing strategy and guess you must be from the city and don’t know much about hunting big game or how much time, money and dedication residents have put into those hunts.
It’s not something a person can look up easily. Why don’t you tell us if you know so much. I’m sure there are outfitters willing to guide ram hunts but you can’t outfit just for that. And no, no one guides non-resident elk hunts either. Non-residents can’t get a tag. Your complaints are worthless. We don’t have issues with turkey or deer in SD to require the funds to help grow their numbers. Sure there might be some areas lacking turkeys but it isn’t a pressing issue like pheasant numbers. Basically, your entire initial post was nothing more than an exaggeration because you seem to think helping the pheasants is a slight against other hunting opportunities and it is not. Nothing compares to the pheasant dollars that are brought in from out of state hunters, at least not involving hunting other animals. Elk and ram aren’t even worth talking about in that conversation. I shoot elk every year, sometimes multiple. I just go to Colorado and Montana because my 14 years preference is still not enough to get a tag here. I’ll let you know how my BC moose hunt goes since I don’t know anything about big game hunting…pft
You are out of touch with SD big game hunting and Noem is being greedy. I suggest volunteering time at an organization dedicated to big game. You’ll get more thorough information than what Google can provide.
Why you got to change my words? I didn’t say “anything”, I said you don’t know much. Lying tells us a lot about the kind of person you are.
The Missouri Breaks are breathtaking, spotted and hunted in them many times. I’ll let you know how our hunting trips go as well, and since I’m Indian I bet I get more access to big game than you do!! Happy hunting.
Yup South Dakotans need to kill animals. That’s what they’re known for and only that. Takes a small man to inflict pain on animals for sport.
It’s not sport for many of us. It’s food. One deer can feed our family (5) for the entire winter. All organic and cost less. You know where your meat comes from? We do.
You want to go after the farmers next? You know how many animals are killed and left to rot during harvest season so you can eat your corn and soy products or fill up your car with ethanol gas?
Some people are clueless and you’ve proven to be one of them, well done!
I only said sport hunting which are wannabe men who have to kill to feel like they have power. BTW, I was forced to hunt when I was a kid by my father and regret it often as many in my family were big red meat eaters and many died of colon cancer. I don’t eat red meat and am colon cancer free so look it up if you really want to feed your family, red meat is one of the main causes that is the number 3 killer in the US.
Oh, so you can go into the minds of sport hunters? And, there are plenty of women who hunt, don’t be a sexiest. Even when an animal is killed “only for sport”, the meat is donated and furs (if useful) made into blankets or other useful products, and the money sport hunters spend on a licenses goes back into the communities.
Don’t care what you were forced to do. Don’t care what you eat, and I highly doubt you care about what my family eats. Are you familiar with the study showing adding meat improves growth, cognitive and behavioral outcomes in Kenyan children? Want to talk about the top 13 vegan/vegetarian mass murders and killers?
You neglected to comment on how many cute, furry animals are killed during harvest time, why?
Umm, sport and trophy hunters have decimated the polar bear populations and then liberals blamed it on global warming, how about the extinction of certain rhinos, near extinction or endangerment of elephants, giraffes, orangutans, tigers by trophy hunters who don’t give a damn about if these animals are endangered. They still want their thrill because no one shoots back at them. You may try and use your hunting time to generate more industry and higher paying jobs where the money goes back into the community rather than sport hunting. And what about the pheasants? You just have to have a season when the numbers are so low instead of allowing them to recover. LOL, Kenyan children would do better to just eat anything so obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. And finally what about the Idaho State Game commissioner who blogged online how he killed an entire family of giraffes and laughed about it. Sick man. Oh, he got fired by the Idaho governor. People have had enough of drunken hunters in the field shooting anything and everything they see.
@ 4:54 – I’d expect you to attack locals who kill polar bears and tigers that are killing livestock and children, but I know you don’t want to face those facts. I understand. Poachers have more of a negative impact on the animals you mention than hunters or so-called global warming. Why are you refusing to address farmers ruthlessly killing animals with combines so you can get your soy and corn products?
Pheasants can’t recover when they and their eggs are being eaten by badgers, coyotes and other predators. You don’t know what the 2nd Century Habitat Initiative entails do you?!! Don’t read it, your emotions will have you crying in the corner.
The study about Kenyan children was not conducted by me. Take your ignorant response up with the authors. The study is published here: The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 137, Issue 4, April 2007, Pages 1119–1123. You suggest they eat anything, are raw bats a suitable choice? How do you think Ebola started?
I see you didn’t do thorough research. Fischer killed an entire family of baboons, not giraffes! And, he did not poach them, he went through the proper channels. Do you know the difference between a hunter and poacher or do you just wrap them all up in the same package?
We haven’t had enough of you showing how clueless you are, keep it coming!
LOL. Glad to see you looked that up about Idaho. Yes an entire family of baboons and an easy prey, a giraffe. Why did the governor fire that sick man…because he is a very demented man. Yes, coyotes, foxes, etc do eat eggs but fella that is Nature. If man intervenes by killing those predators we then upset the balance of nature while South Dakotans plow up every inch of land to farm for greed. I’ve been to Kenya and some there make huge money to poach their resource while trophy hunters also add to the slaughter all for money with few caring if they have any animals left..they just want the money. In your sick world you’d be able to kill all our animals and then what would you do to satisfy your thirst…? People? The redneck in you shows.
Grizzly bears/Polar bears etc do kill people, people who are dumb enough to approach them right. I spent a lot of time in Glacier NP. The rest is also part of nature. Killing them at 500 yards or more or killing caged bears for sport isn’t hunting, it’s the acts of sick men. Did you see the latest story where a deranged man and his son tortured a bear in a cage by shooting the bear non lethally for some time before slaughtering it? I bet you cheered for those two right? That’s the reputation you rednecks have throughout the civilized world. No more replies to you from me fella.
As much as I have enjoyed following the back and forth, you got schooled.
From a South Dakota redneck, LOL. Who got schooled.
You were schooled, LOL. There’s a noticeable change in your responses from beginning to end. You started verbally attacking someone with information that was not expressed and that’s an indication you got burned and are aware of it.
The response to your first comment was about hunting for food and you try to turn them into a sick person who cheers on death, which the “redneck” not once says they support. You call them “fella”, but the writing style and word choice would suggest they’re a woman.
Why wouldn’t you answer the question about wildlife killed during harvest time? It was asked several times.