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41:06:61:02. Black Hills Fire Protection District -- Harvest limit -- Season dates – -- Season
closure. The season harvest limit for the area within the Black Hills Fire Protection District is 60
sixty mountain lions or 40 forty female mountain lions. The mountain lion hunting season in the
Black Hills Fire Protection District is open December 26 twenty-sixth through April 30 thirtieth,
provided that the department Department of Game, Fish and Parks shall close the mountain lion
hunting season in the Black Hills Fire Protection District if the harvest limit for that area is
reached prior to April 30 thirtieth. Custer State Park is closed to mountain lion hunting, except
for 75 persons who possess a mountain lion license and a temporary access permit structured to
include:
(1) Four hunting intervals, each having 15 access permits in which hunting with dogs is
not allowed; and
(2) Five hunting intervals, each having three access permits in which hunting with dogs
is allowed.
Hunting in Custer State Park must begin with an interval that allows the use of dogs and
must rotate every 14 days with an interval that does not allow the use of dogs, until the mountain
lion season closes in the Black Hills Fire Protection District. The temporary access permits are
issued free of charge and may be issued by a random drawing.
Temporary access permits allowing an individual to hunt with the use of dogs in the
Black Hills Fire Protection District must be issued by a random drawing. An individual must
possess a temporary access permit to hunt with dogs in those portions of the Black Hills Fire
Protection District within an area bounded as follows: beginning at the junction of State
Highway 79 and U.S. Highway 16/East Catron Boulevard in Rapid City, then westerly along
U.S. Highway 16 to its junction with the Black Hills National Forest boundary, then southerly
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along the Black Hills National Forest boundary to its junction with South Rockerville Road, then
southerly along South Rockerville Road to its junction with State Highway 40, then easterly
along State Highway 40 to its junction with Pennington County Road 330 (Playhouse Road),
then southerly to its junction with U.S. Highway 16A, then southerly along U.S. Highway 16A to
its junction with the north boundary of Custer State Park, then westerly along the Custer State
Park Boundary to its junction with the northwest corner of Custer State Park, then southerly
along the west Custer State Park boundary and Wind Cave National Park boundary to U.S.
Highway 385, then northerly along U.S. Highway 385 to its junction with State Highway 89,
then southerly along State Highway 89 to its junction with 18 Mile Road (Forest Service 316),
then westerly along 18 Mile Road to its junction with Pleasant Valley Road (Forest Service 715),
then westerly along Pleasant Valley Road to its junction with Pilger Mountain Road/Dewey Road
(Forest Service 769), then westerly along Pilger Mountain Road/Dewey Road to the South
Dakota-Wyoming state line, then southerly along the state line to its junction with the Cheyenne
River, then easterly along the Black Hills Fire Protection District southern boundary to the
southeast corner of the Black Hills Fire Protection District, then northerly along the Black Hills
Fire Protection District eastern boundary to the point of the beginning.
Three temporary access permits must be available in each of five consecutive twenty-
one-day intervals, beginning on December twenty-sixth.
Source: 32 SDR 45, effective September 20, 2005; 33 SDR 1, effective July 18, 2006; 34
SDR 67, effective September 10, 2007; 35 SDR 47, effective September 8, 2008; 36 SDR 31,
effective September 3, 2009; 37 SDR 112, effective December 8, 2010; 38 SDR 101, effective
December 5, 2011; 39 SDR 100, effective December 3, 2012; 40 SDR 113, effective December
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16, 2013; 42 SDR 93, effective December 30, 2015; 46 SDR 74, effective December 2, 2019; 46
SDR 116, effective April 29, 2020; 48 SDR 60, effective December 8, 2021.
General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(2)(17).
Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(2)(17).
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41:06:61:06. Application requirements -- License and season restrictions -- Special
conditions -- Carcass check-in procedures. Only a resident may apply for a mountain lion
hunting license. The following requirements, restrictions, special conditions, and procedures
apply to all licenses issued under this chapter:
(1) No person may harvest more than one mountain lion in a season;
(2) No person may harvest or attempt to harvest a mountain lion with a spotted coat or
any mountain lion accompanying another mountain lion;
(3) No person may hunt mountain lions with the aid of traps or bait;
(4) The use of dogs to hunt mountain lions is allowed in the Black Hills Fire Protection
District only during those specified hunting intervals in Custer State Park that allow the use of
dogs and in the area specified in § 41:06:61:02; and year-round outside of the Black Hills Fire
Protection District;
(5) No person may release dogs on tracks indicating multiple mountain lions traveling
together;
(6) In Custer State Park the Black Hills Fire Protection District, a person using dogs shall
attempt to harvest the first legal mountain lion the person has a reasonable opportunity to
harvest, except under the condition in which where the lion pursued shows obvious signs of
lactation;
(7) Licensed hunters must accompany the dog handler when the dogs are released and
must continuously participate in the hunt until the hunt is completed;
(8) A person may use any firearm, muzzleloader, or bow and arrow, established by
statute or administrative rule as legal implements for the taking of deer; and
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(9) All mountain lions harvested must be presented to a department representative within
twenty-four hours of harvest for inspection.
Source: 32 SDR 45, effective September 20, 2005; 33 SDR 1, effective July 18, 2006; 34
SDR 67, effective September 10, 2007; 37 SDR 112, effective December 8, 2010; 38 SDR 101,
effective December 5, 2011; 39 SDR 100, effective December 3, 2012; 41 SDR 126, effective
March 2, 2015; 46 SDR 116, effective April 29, 2020; 48 SDR 60, effective December 8, 2021;
51 SDR 123, effective May 26, 2025.
General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(2)(14)(17), 41-8-15(1).
Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(2)(14)(17), 41-8-15(1).
Cross-References: Hunting guide activities barred from certain state-owned or state-
managed areas - --Violations, SDCL 41-4-13.
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41:10:04:01. List of aquatic invasive species. Species classified as aquatic invasive species in
the state are as follows;
(1) Fish:
(a) Black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus;
(b) Common carp, Cyprinus carpio;
(c) Grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella;
(d) Bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis;
(e) Silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix;
(f) European rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus;
(g) Giant snakehead, Channa micropeltes;
(h) Northern snakehead, Channa argus;
(i) Bullseye snakehead, Channa marulius;
(j) Blotched snakehead, Channa maculata;
(k) Western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis;
(l) Round goby, Neogobius melanostomus; and
(m) White perch, Morone americana; and
Bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis;
(b) Black carp, Mylopharyngodon piceus;
(c) Common carp, Cyprinus carpio;
(d) Grass carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella;
(e) Prussian carp, Carassisus gibelio;
(f) Round goby, Neogobius melanostomus;
(g) Rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus;
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(h) Silver carp, Hypophthalmichthys molitrix;
(i) Snakehead (Channa Spp.);
(j) Western mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis; and
(k) White perch, Morone americana;
(2) Plants:
(a) Brittle naiad, Najas minor;
(b) Curly pondweed, Potamogeton crispus;
(c) Didymo, Didymosphenia geminata;
(d) Eurasian water-milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum;
(e) Purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria;
(f) Flowering rush, Butomus umbellatus;
(g) Common reed, Phragmites australis; and
(h) Starry stonewort, Nitellopsis obtusa;
Common reed, Phragmites australis;
(c) Curly pondweed, Potamogeton crispus;
(d) Didymo, Didymosphenia geminate;
(e) Eurasian water-milfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum;
(f) Flowering rush, Butomus umbellatus;
(g) Purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria; and
(h) Starry stonewort, Nitellopsis obtuse; and
(3) Invertebrates:
(a) New Zealand mudsnail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum;
(b) Rusty crayfish, Orconectes rusticus;
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(c) Zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha;
(d) Quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis;
(e) Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea;
(f) Red rimmed melania, Melanoides tuberculata;
(g) Red swap crayfish, Procambarus clarkii; and
(h) Spiny waterflea, Bythotrephes longimanus.
Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea;
(b) New Zealand mudsnail, Potamopyrgus antipodarum;
(c) Quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis;
(d) Red rimmed melania, Melanoides tuberculata;
(e) Red swamp crayfish, Procambarus clarkii;
(f) Rusty crayfish, Orconectes rusticus;
(g) Spiny waterflea, Bythotrephes longimanus; and
(h) Zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha.
Source: 38 SDR 116, effective January 10, 2012; 39 SDR 100, effective December 3,
2012; 41 SDR 173, effective May 11, 2015; 43 SDR 89, effective December 29, 2016; 45 SDR
89, effective December 31, 2018; 46 SDR 74, effective December 2, 2019.
General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(2).
Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-18(1)(2).
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41:10:04:02. Aquatic invasive species exemptions. The following persons are exempt from
SDCL 41-13A-2:
(1) A person possessing a scientific collectors permit issued by the department
Department of Game, Fish and Parks;
(2) A person authorized by the department to stock triploid grass carp for pond
management purposes;
(3) A person contracted by the department to conduct commercial fishing operations as
authorized in SDCL 41-13-7;
(4) A person in the process of removing an aquatic invasive species from a conveyance,
as defined in SDCL 41-13A-1;
(5) An owner or agent of the owner of a conveyance in the process of transporting the
conveyance for decontamination of dreissenid mussels using a department approved department-
approved procedure;
(6) An employee of a business approved by the department to transport and possess
conveyances for the purpose of decontamination of dreissenid mussels;
(7) A commercial plant harvester operating within the requirements of a department-
approved work plan or a lakeshore property owner operating within the requirements of a
department approved permit; and
(8) A lakeshore property owner in the process of transporting aquatic invasive species,
for disposal, in a manner that minimizes possible introduction to new waters.
In the case of fish and crayfish species, only dead specimens may be transported or
possessed.;
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(9) A person importing, transporting, or possessing live red swamp crayfish solely for the
purpose of human consumption, provided the possession is not at a location licensed to sell bait;
and
(10) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (9), a person transporting or possessing
any aquatic invasive fish or crayfish species, provided that it is dead.
Source: 38 SDR 116, effective January 10, 2012; 41 SDR 173, effective May 11, 2015;
43 SDR 146, effective May 22, 2017; 45 SDR 89, effective December 31, 2018; 47 SDR 48,
effective October 29, 2020; 48 SDR 60, effective December 8, 2021.
General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18(26).
Law Implemented: SDCL 41-13A-2.