Amendment to allow the use of leashed dogs to track wounded or presumed dead big game passes in the South Dakota House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

Jonathan Eckrich, a United Blood Trackers member from South Dakota reported today:

 

Today the South Dakota House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee passed (13 yea : 0 nea) an amendment to allow the use of leashed dogs to track wounded or presumed dead big game.

The bill HB1093 can be found at: http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2013/Bill.aspx?Bill=1093 Audio of the hearing can be found at http://sdpb.sd.gov/SDPBPodcast/2013/hag21.mp3.

 

The next step is to get it passed by the full house. This vote should occur today or tomorrow. Then the Senate Ag Committee will review it, and if it passes, send it to the full Senate. Then the governor will have to sign after that. Then the real work of hammering out the details with the GF&P begins.

This is a good start.

 

Congratulations Jonathan! This is a big step forward.