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approve the license and fee increases.
• The cost of an annual fishing license for a South Dakota resident will increase from $25 to $28. The annual resident small-game hunting license would rise from the current $30 to $33, and a combination license allowing both hunting and fishing would increase from $50 to $55.
• Resident deer and antelope hunting licenses will rise by $4.
• Camping fees also would increase slightly, with most campsites costing only a few dollars more per night.
• Nonresident annual fishing licenses will rise from $60 to $67. But the cost of small-game licenses for nonresidents will not increase because they were increased a year ago.
• The new hunting and fishing license fees take effect for 2014 licenses issued beginning Dec. 15. The new camping fees take effect next year.
• State wildlife officials estimate the increase in hunting and fishing license fees will raise nearly $2 million in additional revenue next year. The money is needed to cover rising costs, according to documents provided to the commission. The last general fee increase for hunting and fishing licenses was in 2005.
• Camping fees were last increased in 2011.
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New money for cardiac care effort in Dakotas
CHET BROKAW, Associated Press
• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Charitable grants will provide South Dakota and North Dakota hospitals and ambulance services with new lifesaving equipment to increase survival rates in cases of sudden cardiac arrest, officials said Friday.
• South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard said the Helmsley Charitable Trust is providing $3.7 million in South Dakota to buy the automated chest compression equipment, known as the LUCAS 2 Chest Compression System, which will be placed in all 50 hospitals and 124 ambulance services in the state.
• North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said North Dakota is getting a $3 million grant from the same trust to place the devices in hospitals and ambulances across the state.
• Walter Panzirer of the Helmsley Charitable Trust said South Dakota and North Dakota will be the first states to have the devices distributed border to border. The battery-operated device, which fits around a patient, uses a plunger to deliver chest compressions.
• Daugaard said sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in the nation and is fatal for 95 percent of its victims. In sudden cardiac arrest, quick CPR and (Continued on page 27)
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