The first purple martins of the year have been spotted in South Dakota, marking the start of spring migration. These birds travel up to 7,000 miles from Brazil to their breeding grounds in North ...

Game and Fish Department: Watch out for aquatic invasive species This comes after Zebra mussels were confirmed in the lower end of Lake Oahe in South Dakota in December 2023 by South Dakota Game ...

This story has been updated with information from a Wednesday social media post from the GFP and interview with South Dakota ...

there would be hundreds if not several thousands of species that would already have gone extinct,” Renner said. She added that specifically in South Dakota, paddlefish, walleye and angler fish ...

North Dakota’s 2025 ... visits with Game and Fish Department Wildlife Division Chief Casey Anderson to learn more about how populations of the three big game species are doing.

Jaquie Ermer of the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks told the GPF commission ... a threat to nesting birds like pheasants. “The species are the same as last year,” Ermer said.

a keystone species whose absence has economic, cultural and environmental repercussions. The walleye, a member of the perch family, is the state fish in multiple midwestern states — Minnesota, Ohio ...

Dams also prevent shiners from migrating up- and downstream to find better habitat during times of low stream flow, and they encourage these fish to linger in deep ... Kansas, and South Dakota. This ...