The 2021 Canada goose August Management Take season ends tomorrow (Aug.31).
The season is open for resident hunters only in those portions of Meade County south of SD Hwy 34, and Pennington County west of the Cheyenne River and the counties of Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Edmunds, Faulk, Hamlin, Hanson, Hutchinson, Grant, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Marshall, McCook, McPherson, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Roberts, Sanborn, Spink, Turner, Union and Yankton. The daily limit is 15 geese.
The August Management Take is a management tool found within the Canada goose action plan that can be implemented when the resident Canada goose population is above a designated objective.
New for this year, a public hunting option has been created to help hunters target geese during AMT and September goose seasons. Goose hunters will have an additional 5,926 acres of private lands open for public hunting from August 21-September 24 as part of the new Canada Goose Seasonal Access Program. This program connects hunters with landowners who are experiencing Canada goose damage and those that want to assist in reducing the resident Canada goose population. Hunters can find the complete list of these properties only through an online map.
Hunters can drive into the harvested hay and crop fields to both place and remove decoys after the hunt. Please be respectful and avoid driving on unharvested fields, parking on tall vegetation that could pose a fire hazard and/or causing ruts from spinning tires on wet roads.
This is a seasonal access program and there will not be signage marking these fields. All hunting access on these properties after September 24 will be by landowner permission only.
All other public hunting lands including Game Production Areas, Waterfowl Production Areas and Walk-In Areas are also open for the August Goose Management Take.
Following the August Goose Management Take, the Unit 1 Canada goose season will open on September 1. Complete information on goose hunting can be found at https://gfp.sd.gov/goose/.
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