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No, the list is for hunters will want meat and want to help out thinning out the Problem" deer. But some landowners don't want to deal with hunters even if they are helping out a problem for the landowner. So, landowners either don't have to wait on hunters or don't have to deal with hunters at all and can blaze away. But they can't use the animals. Two different solutions to the problem.
Most SD landowners are fairly sociable people and the number who wouldn't let hunters in to help diminish the problem are probably few. But I'm sure that there are those who rather shoot now and think about letting in others later. A sad little story about wildlife conservation in South Dakota. We used to have what was then thought as a sub-species of the Rocky Mountain sheep in the western part of the state, like around the Badlands and other rougher ground. It was called the Audubon sheep although modern evidence probably points to it just being a Rocky Mountain sheep that lived in the rougher parts of the short-grass prairie. Anyway, I've heard stories, although I haven't seen any real evidence, like old newspaper articles on microfilm/fiche, that West River South Dakotas had a contest to see who could kill the last Audubon sheep in the early 1900s. Whether its true or not, bighorn sheep disappeared in the Badlands and the Black Hills until introduced several decades later. The population is still low in both areas.
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