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What South Dakotans Are Saying:
The farther you travel from a road, the better
the hunting you’ll find - and we’re running out of such
places. That’s why I support grasslands
wilderness in South Dakota.
– Tony Dean,
hunter/angler advocate and host of Tony Dean Outdoors and Dakota
Backroads
More than 8 in 10 (83 percent) South Dakotans support wilderness,
according to a poll by Robinson & Muenster Associates of Sioux
Falls.
Nearly 89 percent of respondents who live in the four-county Black
Hills area favor wilderness protection.
– Robinson
& Muenster Associates May 2003
The pioneer spirit of South Dakota is represented by our rolling
grasslands, broad plateaus and rising buttes.By conserving places
like Indian Creek, Cheyenne River, Red Shirt and First
Black Canyon as wilderness, our heritage will be permanently etched
in history.
– Former U.S. Senator
Jim Abourezk (D-SD)
If Congress creates the Indian Creek and Red Shirt wilderness areas,
we would argue that the legislation should allow grazing to continue
and the use of motorized vehicles for livestock purposes and maintenance
of fences, wells, etc.
The land is owned by the government, not the ranchers, but there
is no reason that livestock grazing and recreation in the areas
can’t coexist. …we urge the inclusion of Indian Creek
and Red Shirt as the first wilderness areas in the national grasslands
system.
– Rapid City Journal
editorial, March 17, 2002
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