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South Dakota Pheasants will be losing their cover
By From staff reports
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EmailNovember 24. 2009 6:00AM
The crops are finally coming out of the ground in South Dakota and the pheasants are running for cover. This season’s late harvest has provided much shelter for the birds but now the combines are doing their job to get the crops down and the pheasants out.
Pheasant populations in South Dakota are as good this year as in the past.
“The annual pheasant brood route survey conducted in August was the fourth highest count in the past 45 years,” Game, Fish and Parks Secretary Jeff Vonk said. “Hunters in South Dakota harvested over 1.8 million pheasants in five of the past six years. That same opportunity awaits hunters this year as the crops are harvested and pheasants move into more traditional cover.”
According to the National Agriculture Statistics Service weekly report, 59 percent of the sunflowers, 79 percent of sorghum, and 93 percent of the soybeans in South Dakota have been harvested.
Pheasant populations in South Dakota are as good this year as in the past.
“The annual pheasant brood route survey conducted in August was the fourth highest count in the past 45 years,” Game, Fish and Parks Secretary Jeff Vonk said. “Hunters in South Dakota harvested over 1.8 million pheasants in five of the past six years. That same opportunity awaits hunters this year as the crops are harvested and pheasants move into more traditional cover.”
According to the National Agriculture Statistics Service weekly report, 59 percent of the sunflowers, 79 percent of sorghum, and 93 percent of the soybeans in South Dakota have been harvested.
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