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be more socially acceptable in the future.
• Commissioners also gave initial approval to changes in duck licenses, which will likely allow for more blue-winged teal harvesting in the first 16 days of the season. The waterfowl proposals, including duck and light geese will be open for public comment at the commission's August meeting, which will take place in Fort Pierre like the current meeting.
• After receiving public comment Tuesday, commissioners finalized the antelope hunting season, reducing the number of resident licenses by 27 percent.
• Game, Fish and Parks officials hope to increase antelope numbers in the state from around 55,000 to 68,000, give or take 15 percent. These animals, also called pronghorns, are most densely concentrated in the Northwestern part of the state. Department staff updated the state's management plan for antelope, which commissioners are reviewing.
• Plans to finalize the wild turkey hunting season were delayed, as the commission voted to make a change that requires public comment. Because the population has been declining, commissioners voted to allow 2 instead of 5 licenses per person.
• Other changes already in place reduced the size of the hunting area for turkeys and shortened the season by a month.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Teams of federal, state and local officials on Monday will begin preliminary assessments of damage to public infrastructure caused by tornadoes and flooding.
• A series of storms from June 13-20 affected 12 counties and one Native American reservation.
• Representatives of FEMA, the state Office of Emergency Management and local governments will conduct the assessments. The field work is expected to be completed by Wednesday.
• Teams will be working in Butte, Clay, Corson, Dewey, Hanson, Jerauld, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Perkins, Turner, Union and Ziebach counties and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A volunteer diver is hospitalized in Sioux Falls after he was pulled up from the water unresponsive during a training exercise.
• Minnehaha County Emergency Management Director Lynn DeYoung says the

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