WOOLSTOCK, Iowa — Authorities say a pheasant hunter in north-central Iowa was accidentally shot when a dog stepped on shotgun trigger guard and the gun fired. The Iowa DNR says the shooting occurred around 1:20
License sales down, however, for the state’s highly regarded hunt.
This event marked the success of a decades-long collaborative project to restore habitat and wild pheasants back to the Keystone State, the Game Commission said.
As crops disappear, engage the dog in a search for upland birds in traditional public lands cover like cattail sloughs and brushy thickets.
So far, hunters’ outlay of $25 for a pheasant stamp to hunt ringnecks has had minimal return.
By start of Pennsylvania pheasant season, permit sales about half of hoped-for level.
Pheasant hunters can voluntarily report roosters that were banded as part of a study being conducted by the Minnesota DNR. DNR Farmland Wildlife Populations and Research Group workers captured and banded roosters during a research
While Michigan pheasant populations have been in decline for several years, pheasants can be found in southern Lower Michigan and in some areas of the Upper Peninsula, according to the Michigan DNR, with the best
Despite a mild winter and mostly favorable weather during the spring reproductive season, loss of habitat in farm country continues to take its toll on ringneck population.
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