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Article: Proposed Pierre, S.D.-Area Duck Shooting Preserve Generates Heated Debate.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- July 7, 2000
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Jul. 6--Last month, the state Game, Fish and Parks Commission approved 64 new shooting preserve applications for the state -- primarily for upland birds -- bringing the total for the 2000-2001 season to 159.
By the end of the week, it could be 160.
Either today or Friday at its regular monthly meeting at the National Guard Armory in DeSmet, the eight-member, governor-appointed body will decide the fate of a controversial proposal by an Aberdeen physician who wants to let customers shoot pen-raised mallards on his commercial hunting area east of Pierre.
Alex Falk, owner of Big Bend Ranch in Hughes County, sat through two hours of conflicting and ...