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Tall Shadow, the PD infestation runs in pockets. We can drive down that road for miles and not see a single mound, then round a corner and for the next two or three miles, they're everywhere.
My partner has been shooting that one ranch for five years with almost no effect, but he didn't used to get there much before June. The Wyoming DWR estimates that there are 2,000 PDs that winter over in that pasture, but after the pups are up, that number jumps to 10,000. Even 2,000 are ruinous to a pasture, as every single one of them will eat a bail of hay a year.
That's why we started real early this year. Killing a nursing female is like getting six or seven per shot. It's not sport, and it isn't humane, but it is better than poisoning the place and having a lot of accidental "spill" deaths in eagles, hawks, coyotes and badgers that eat the poisoned ones. Not to mention the guy's own livestock.
Sorry about SD, I don't have to drive past millions of PDs just to shoot them there. So I don't have any info for ya.
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