Outdoors: Hunting on the Rosebud Reservation

Monday, January 7, 2008  

"You know its cold when the snow squeaks under your boots. That was the case last week as Gary Howey, Ben Bearshield and I climbed the ridge in the pre-dawn darkness.

Deer were everywhere. Both whitetail and mulies. We made a second set and when Ben howled as a prelude to the rabbit cries we had coyotes answering all around us. But they would not come in.

Howey was filming a show for his Outdoorsmen Adventures television program which airs throughout the upper Midwest. He would run the camera the first day and I would take it over the second day. It's something we've done a lot of over the past 10 years. Ben is a conservation officer for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and we have hunted coyotes and prairie dogs with him in the past.

On the Rosebud, non-tribal members are required to have a registered tribal member guide to hunt tribal lands. Information about hunting on the reservation is available on the internet at: www.rstgfp.net.

The reservation is one of the premier prairie dog hunting destinations in the country. An annual nonresident license is $50 and also allows you to hunt coyotes and other game designated as varmints."

Get the Story:
Larry Myhre,: Coyotes don't come easy on the Rosebud (The Sioux City Journal 1/7)

$rl Rosebud Sioux Tribe Game, Fish and Parks Department - http://www.rstgfp.net