Liberty Belle
Well-known member
Deer depredation
Deer reduction plans in Rapid City have cost us tens of thousands of dollars. GF&P consistently shuns responsibility for property damage from over-population. We must beg their permission to deal with the problem (citing their deer "ownership"), but they deny any financial obligation.
In a country where laws protect city people from searches without probable cause, and country folks apparently have no such rights, how can GF&P and the governor's office justify entering land without permission to verify presence or absence of criminal activity:
When it relates to animals that are not only hunted but also cause financial depredation hardship for those landowners?
When GF&P has made it abundantly clear that it denies any responsibility for those same animals in the city of Rapid City?
GF&P has a depredation problem, by their own admission, as there does exist a fund for depredation.
Doesn't it seem reasonable to trust ranchers as honest people first, change the law and allow property rights to be restored to these rural private property owners?
Let's see, they're GF&P's deer until they might cost them money, then they're the city people's deer. Then city people have property rights, but rural folks don't.
Huh?
JERRY MUNSON
Rapid City
Deer reduction plans in Rapid City have cost us tens of thousands of dollars. GF&P consistently shuns responsibility for property damage from over-population. We must beg their permission to deal with the problem (citing their deer "ownership"), but they deny any financial obligation.
In a country where laws protect city people from searches without probable cause, and country folks apparently have no such rights, how can GF&P and the governor's office justify entering land without permission to verify presence or absence of criminal activity:
When it relates to animals that are not only hunted but also cause financial depredation hardship for those landowners?
When GF&P has made it abundantly clear that it denies any responsibility for those same animals in the city of Rapid City?
GF&P has a depredation problem, by their own admission, as there does exist a fund for depredation.
Doesn't it seem reasonable to trust ranchers as honest people first, change the law and allow property rights to be restored to these rural private property owners?
Let's see, they're GF&P's deer until they might cost them money, then they're the city people's deer. Then city people have property rights, but rural folks don't.
Huh?
JERRY MUNSON
Rapid City