Residency
To
apply for this hunt, a person must:
§
Actually live within and be a bona fide
South Dakota
resident for at least 90 days with
the intent to make it home.
§
Have a
South Dakota
driver license or expiration dated
South Dakota
state ID.
§
Have his/her motor vehicles registered in
South Dakota
.
§
Make no claim of residency or resident privileges in any other state.
The
following persons are eligible for resident licenses:
§
Nonresident minors under age 18 who are the legal dependent of a
South Dakota
resident.
§
Military personnel (and spouse and dependent children under age 18) who enter
active full-time military service from
South Dakota
and retain resident privileges
while in active military service by maintaining
South Dakota
as “Home of Record.”
The
following persons are entitled to resident licenses without the above
requirements if they have resided in the state for 30 days immediately before
buying or applying for a license:
§
U.S. Armed Forces personnel and spouses stationed
in
South Dakota
.
§
Nonmilitary persons residing on restricted
military reservations in
South
Dakota
.
§
Employees of the Dept. of Veterans Affairs or VA
hospital, or patients in a VA hospital.
§
Full-time students attending a
South Dakota
post-high school institution.
§
Foreign exchange students at either public or
private high schools (Completion of a HuntSAFE course required for those under
age 16).
Age
Eligibility
Residents
and nonresidents must be at least 12 years old to hunt and residents under age
16 must have successfully completed a HuntSAFE course.
Submitting
Fees
No
fees are associated with the program.
Submitting
Applications
Applications
may be submitted only by completely filling out all field below and then
hitting the “Submit” button. There
are no phone or paper applications associated with the depredation hunt pool.
Preference Point
Certificates
No preference
point certificates are issued for this season.
TO
APPLY:
Please
verify that the information you enter below correctly represents your contact
information and the species and county or counties you are interested in.
Big
game depredation hunts are generally conducted in response to severe crop and
livestock feed losses that cannot be resolved using traditional non-lethal
forms of depredation control. They may involve turkey, deer, or antelope. In
the past, these hunts have most often been organized during severe winters when
both the weather and road conditions have deteriorated.
Depredation
hunts require that hunters work closely with the landowner and the conservation
officer. These hunts are usually very site-specific to individual farms and
ranches and are conducted in close cooperation with the affected landowner(s).
Additionally, these hunts are very specific to the species causing the problem
to the landowner. In most cases it
is imperative that hunters be able to respond quickly to the call to
participate in a depredation pool hunt.
With
this in mind, we would ask big game depredation pool applicants to consider
listing only those counties nearest where they reside in order to reduce travel
time and difficulties associated with the distance from their residence to a
hunt area. Applying for a
depredation hunt county strictly because it’s your favorite hunting area is
neither recommended nor necessary, and the results generally are not positive
for either the hunter or the affected landowner.
Also, we would ask applicants to only select those species they are
serious about shooting. Selecting
for a species or county that you decline to participate in after being asked to
come out and shoot, does not help Game, Fish and Parks or the affected
landowner.
Thank
you for your consideration.
Please
enter information in each field the way you would like it to appear in the
table. If you need to edit previously entered information, select the
field, re-enter the new information, then submit.
All
required fields are marked with an *.