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PHEASANTS

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan emphasized gun safety while gearing up for the annual pheasant hunting season opener
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Despite numerous accolades, the chapter wasn’t giving enough money to Pheasants Forever’s habitat mission, according to Jared Wiklund, communications director for Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever.
Columnist Jonathan Knutson expounds on the variety of wildlife that frequent farmlands and the reactions they get by different property owners.
Not all game shot in South Dakota is wild. Rather, some are raised as livestock and later sold for thousands of dollars.

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Many species have settled into the nesting season and many others already have fledglings and chicks on the ground.
Nobles County puts fundraising efforts into land acquisitions.
Bryan and Bryce Sombke, who promote a 500-acre natural bird hunting and gun dog enterprise near Conde, South Dakota, and help on the family’s 2,000-acre farm, were among those hit in an unusual Aug. 28, 2021, hail storm. The storm brought high winds and softball-sized hail, and killed deer and decimated the bird population, as well as flattening 7- to 8-foot-tall corn and Conservation Reserve Program lands.
Extremely hot days early in the summer may have taken a toll. North Dakota’s late-summer pheasant count was also down 23% this year compared to 2020. South Dakota no longer conducts pheasant surveys.
The 18th stop on our tour of 20 Minnesota State Parks is to a place where you can explore the land and the water, but the most intriguing visitors arrive by air. Kilen Woods State Park offers hiking in the woods and the prairie, canoeing and kayaking on the Des Moines River, and some of the best birding in Minnesota.
Owning western Minnesota land is a dream come true for Hermantown pheasant hunter Jerry Kuklis.
He grew up in Eden Prairie, but Chuck Ellingson fell in love with the outdoor life and especially, the Lac qui Parle area thanks to forays to his grandparents' farm there as a youth. So much so, he made it his business and now owns and operates the Watson Hunting Camp where he introduces others to the outdoor adventures the area offers.
The addition of millions more acres of corn and soybeans in Minnesota has vastly reduced wildlife habitat in agricultural areas of the state.
As outdoorsman take to the fields in the Dakotas and Minnesota to hunt pheasants, here's a comparison of the various seasons in the states.
Ninth annual celebration includes much more than hunting
DULUTH - How tough was Minnesota pheasant hunting for last weekend's season opener? Here's a sampling of reports.From a Marshall-area hunter: Total bust. Six hunters, six dogs, two days, one bird. Private land.From a Madison-area hunter: Four hun...

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