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Web Managing Editor Shawn Skipper and Assistant Editor Jon Draper wanted to do their part to "save the tundra" this spring, so they road-tripped out to South Dakota for a light goose conservation order hunt with Waterfowl Junkie Outdoors. Get an inside look at their week on the prairie with this gallery.

South Dakota's roadside pheasant count is down a shocking 64-percent from last year.

Spring typically means the end of the line for waterfowlers and the beginning of "duck depression." There is a way to squeeze a little more action out of your season: a spring snow goose hunt. Managing Online Editor Shawn Skipper spent a week hunting the reverse migration in South Dakota this spring, armed with Remington's Versa Max Waterfowl Pro and Federal Premium's Black Cloud shotshells. Find out how he fared with this gallery.

Associate Editor Jon Draper and Digital Managing Editor Shawn Skipper recently returned from a spring snow goose hunt in South Dakota. Get an inside look at their hunt with this gallery.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signs SB176, allocating $1 million in funding for the state’s Second Century Habitat Initiative to preserving pheasant hunting and habitat.

The most recent South Dakota pheasant brood survey is out, and the results indicate hunters can celebrate the state’s 100th pheasant season with high hopes for success.

A special Pope and Young Club judges panel has declared a Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep taken in South Dakota in 2018 as the new world record with a final score of 209⅛ inches, surpassing the previous world-record ram by nearly 10 inches.

A young artist from South Dakota has taken top honors at the National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest. A green-winged teal by 15-year-old Madison Grimm will grace the 2022-2023 Junior Duck Stamp, which raises funds to educate and engage our nation’s youth in wildlife and wetlands conservation and outdoor recreation.

Gary Gorney, of Minot, N.D., was pheasant hunting in the Custer Mine area near Garrison, N.D. on Dec. 26 when he shot and killed a charging mountain lion.