SD Game, Fish, and Parks adopts new state pheasant action plan
Despite objections from some hunting advocates, the pheasant plan does not include returning to a brood count.
Source: sdpb.org
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Commission dismisses calls to reinstate annual pheasant count
George Vandel, a former wildlife director for Game, Fish and Parks, said the brood count was a more accurate way of estimating the pheasant population. "It wasn’t barbershop biology,” Vandel said.
South Dakota United States South Dakota State University George Vandel Mark Schaefer Larry Fredrickson
Source: mitchellrepublic.com
South Dakota bird hunting forecast from Pheasants Forever
Wildlife managers are optimistic about this year's bird season. Resident pheasant hunting opener on October 8 and the prairie grouse season opens September 17.
Source: sdpb.org