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• Hunters and trappers have taken 600-650 bobcats a year over the past decade, Fish said.
• Some hunters and trappers urged the commission to make no change in the season.
• Anna Hermanson, of Newell, president of the South Dakota Trappers Association, said the group believes there is insufficient data to indicate the bobcat population is in trouble. But the association would have preferred a quota of 650 instead of a shortened season, she said.
• Hermanson, who said she runs more than 100 traps, said she used to see hundreds of bobcat tracks when she lived on a southwestern South Dakota ranch, but she actually saw only one.
• "They are a very elusive species," Hermanson said.
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Sioux president walks out of meeting with Neb. gov
GRANT SCHULTE,Associated Press
• LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- Less than three minutes into a meeting Monday about alcohol sales in Whiteclay, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe walked out on Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman.
• Tribal president Bryan Brewer said he left because he felt the governor has no intention of trying to address alcohol-related problems that stem from the Nebraska town that sells millions of cans of beer and borders South Dakota's officially dry Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He also accused Heineman of greeting him with a hostile tone, an allegation the governor denied.
• "He has no plan. He said it's not his problem, it's my problem -- solve it," Brewer said at a news conference after the meeting.
• Earlier Monday, Heineman said Nebraska has no legal authority to shut down the beer stores unless they violate state law. He said the tribe should provide education and treatment to curb alcohol abuse.
• "Alcohol is a legal product, and as long as the law is followed, we have no ability to shut down those places in Whiteclay unless they violated the law," Heineman said in a news conference on an unrelated subject. "That's just a fact of life."
• Brewer also said he felt disrespected by the governor. Brewer said Heineman angrily threw down a press release by an anti-Whiteclay activist group that made light of the Republican governor's political contributions from the alcohol industry.
• Heineman spokeswoman Jen Rae Wang denied the allegations, saying Brewer questioned the governor's integrity by insinuating he was influenced by alcohol-industry lobbyists.
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