Pheasants Forever to Open Regional Office in the Mount Rushmore State
June 16, 2014
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
How important is the state of South Dakota to the world of pheasant hunting?
Pretty dog gone important - bird dog important, that is.
As the nation's leading producer of wild ring-necked pheasants every fall, the state has suffered through a precipitous drop in bird numbers over the last couple of years, one that is causing both public and private sector groups to sit up, take notice and cooperatively go to work.
On the public side of things, South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard reacted to last year's bad upland bird hunting news for his state by convening an almost emergency "Governor's Pheasant Habitat Summit" last December in Huron.
One of the active participants...