{"id":213575,"date":"2025-10-10T05:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213575\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:54:06","slug":"controversial-change-to-hunting-mountain-lions-around-rapid-city-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/213575\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial change to hunting mountain lions around Rapid City approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; The South Dakota Legislative Rules and Review Committee approved a controversial change to hunting mountain lions in the Black Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">State legislators gave the green-light to expanding where dogs can be used to detect wildcats in the Black Hills Fire Protection District including some private land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">South Dakota Public Broadcasting reports Representative Roger DeGroot calls this a win-win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He says in addition to giving people more areas to hunt in, this change gives landowners more options to getting mountain lions off their property.<\/p>\n<p>Download the KOTA News App.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a> to report it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/community\/user-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Send it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KOTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; The South Dakota Legislative Rules and Review Committee approved a controversial change to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8120,8117,121440,121441,2354,24228,8119,121443,79,1307,121442,201],"class_list":["post-213575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-black-hills","tag-kota","tag-kota-news","tag-legislative-rules-and-review-committee","tag-mountain-lion","tag-mountain-lions","tag-rapid-city","tag-representative-roger-degroot","tag-science","tag-south-dakota","tag-south-dakota-public-broadcasting","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}