HOLABIRD, S.D. (KELO) — From afar, they looked no different than any other group of pheasant hunters, clad in bright safety-orange vests and caps, working through their way through tree belts and sloughs out in some farmer’s fields of central South Dakota.
But a closer listen made clear this was more.
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This mix of conservatives and liberals and middle of the roaders walked together in pursuit of not only South Dakota’s official state bird. They were also trying to better understand each other’s differing political views.
That’s been the central goal for this rite of South Dakota autumn, known simply as the Blogmore hunt, since its beginning in around 2007.
One of the men who started the hunt is a long-time news reporter and columnist Kevin Woster. He said the hunt was an offshoot of a political blog at the Rapid City Journal newspaper, where he worked at the time. It was called Mount Blogmore, a take-off on the name of the nearby world-famous national monument to four of the greatest U.S. presidents.