The season harvest limit for the area within the Black Hills Fire Protection District is sixty mountain lions or forty female mountain lions. The mountain lion hunting season in the Black Hills Fire Protection District is open December twenty-sixth through April thirtieth, provided that the Department of Game, Fish and Parks shall close the mountain lion hunting season in the Black Hills Fire Protection District if the harvest limit for that area is reached prior to April thirtieth.

Temporary access permits allowing an individual to hunt with the use of dogs in the Black Hills Fire Protection District must be issued by a random drawing. An individual must possess a temporary access permit to hunt with dogs in those portions of the Black Hills Fire Protection District within an area bounded as follows: beginning at the junction of State Highway 79 and U.S. Highway 16/East Catron Boulevard in Rapid City, then westerly along U.S. Highway 16 to its junction with the Black Hills National Forest boundary, then southerly along the Black Hills National Forest boundary to its junction with South Rockerville Road, then southerly along South Rockerville Road to its junction with State Highway 40, then easterly along State Highway 40 to its junction with Pennington County Road 330 (PlayhouseRoad), then southerly to its junction with U.S. Highway 16A, then southerly along U.S. Highway 16A to its junction with the north boundary of Custer State Park, then westerly along the Custer State Park Boundary to its junction with the northwest corner of Custer State Park, then southerly along the west Custer State Park boundary and Wind Cave National Park boundary to U.S. Highway 385, then northerly along U.S. Highway 385 to its junction with State Highway 89, then southerly along State Highway 89 to its junction with 18 Mile Road (ForestService316), then westerly along 18 Mile Road to its junction with Pleasant Valley Road (ForestService715), then westerly along Pleasant Valley Road to its junction with Pilger Mountain Road/Dewey Road (ForestService769), then westerly along Pilger Mountain Road/Dewey Road to the South Dakota-Wyoming state line, then southerly along the state line to its junction with the Cheyenne River, then easterly along the Black Hills Fire Protection District southern boundary to the southeast corner of the Black Hills Fire Protection District, then northerly along the Black Hills Fire Protection District eastern boundary to the point of the beginning.

Three temporary access permits must be available in each of five consecutive twenty-one-day intervals, beginning on December twenty-sixth.

Source: 32 SDR 45, effective September 20, 2005; 33 SDR 1, effective July 18, 2006; 34 SDR 67, effective September 10, 2007; 35 SDR 47, effective September 8, 2008; 36 SDR 31, effective September 3, 2009; 37 SDR 112, effective December 8, 2010; 38 SDR 101, effective December 5, 2011; 39 SDR 100, effective December 3, 2012; 40 SDR 113, effective December 16, 2013; 42 SDR 93, effective December 30, 2015; 46 SDR 74, effective December 2, 2019 ; 46 SDR 116, effective April 29, 2020 ; 48 SDR 60, effective December 8, 2021; 52 SDR 42, effective October 27, 2025 .

General Authority: SDCL 41-2-18 (1)(2)(17).

Law Implemented: SDCL 41-2-18 (1)(2)(17).

Prior versions effective: 2021-12-08, 2020-04-29, 2019-12-02, 2015-12-30, 2013-12-16.