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sons.
• They include: West River Deer, Black Hills deer, archery deer, muzzleloader deer, youth deer, archery antelope fall turkey, furbearers-trapping, muskrat shooting, august management goose take and a rule reduction initiative.
• Commissioners are also scheduled to discuss the Fort Randall Concession Marina, revenue and visitation and mountain beetles.
• The meeting at Blue Bell Lodge begins Thursday at 1 p.m. MDT.
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fires the past half-century that a woodpecker that's survived for millions of years by eating beetle larvae in burned trees is in danger of going extinct in parts of the West, according to conservationists seeking U.S. protection for the bird.
• Four conservation groups filed a petition with the U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday to list the black-backed woodpecker under the Endangered Species Act in the Sierra Nevada, Oregon's Eastern Cascades and the Black Hills of eastern

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