Merlin acts like a puppy again. Nose to the ground, the 10-year-old chocolate Lab bounds across the grassy field hot on the scent. Approaching a thicket, he flushes a ring-necked pheasant into the ...
In the fall of 1941, just before the U.S. entered World War II, hunters in Minnesota went afield and shot 1.8 million pheasants, the most ever. That was just 25 years after the birds, natives of China ...
Thriving pheasant populations and excellent hunting conditions are primarily the result of two things: high-quality habitat and access to that habitat. South Dakota works hard to protect and add to ...
Because of harsh winters and a loss of habitat, Iowa’s estimated pheasant harvest is only about 60 percent of what it was nearly a quarter of a century ago — and while it ticked up in 2023, the land ...
It is assumed by many folks that pheasants are indigenous to North America, but they are not. Their ancestry hails primarily from Eurasia, where various regions feature distinctly different subspecies ...
For my 40th birthday, in December, I asked my wife, Virginia, for something special. I wanted her to take advantage of the hunter-education classes that had moved online due to the pandemic to obtain ...
Did you know the Minnesota DNR 2025 pheasant action plan recently came available in draft form, and is open for public comment? Perhaps you’ve been waiting on pins and needles for it, like I was. If ...
Merlin acts like a puppy again. Nose to the ground, the 10-year-old chocolate Lab bounds across the grassy field hot on the scent. Approaching a thicket, he flushes a ring-necked pheasant into the ...