Chris Hitzeman
Blog posts by Chris Hitzeman
2008 South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Outlook Forecast - August
August 11, 2008 by Chris Hitzeman
I just got a call from my Aberdeen pheasant camp owner and he said they were getting a good rain and he felt confident it would finish out his corn for the year and he would get another cutting of alfalfa. What's good for crops is usually good for pheasants!
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2008 South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Outlook Forecast - July
June 30, 2008 by Chris Hitzeman
Late last season the final population estimates came out from South Dakota Game & Fish. The tally read 11.9 million pheasants. The best since 1945. One could hardly expect to top that number anytime soon and yet some of the most established wild bird SD enthusiasts and conservationists are hedging to say that 2008 may be yet another record year for wild pheasant populations.
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2008 South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Outlook Forecast - June
May 21, 2008 by Chris Hitzeman
Having been recently out on the farm in south-central South Dakota, I am happy to report good news and bad news. The bad news first....lots of dead birds on the roads and lots of bird/car collisions. Now the good news....that is the good news.
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More Time to Hunt Pheasants in South Dakota?
March 18, 2008 by Chris Hitzeman
South Dakota’s pheasant hunting season might get longer under a proposal being considered by the Game, Fish and Parks Commission. The proposal lengthens the season through January. In the past, the season has ended on the first Sunday in January. See whole story to see how your vote can be cast... More...
2007 South Dakota Pheasant Hunting Counts Up 23% Overall
August 25, 2007 by Chris Hitzeman
Brood count surveys by the S.D. Game, Fish and Parks Department project pheasant numbers the likes of which has not been seen since the Soil Bank years of the 1950s and ’60s. The pheasant population index was at a 40-year high in 2005 and the 2007 index tops that historic mark. Overall statewide numbers for 2007 are 23% higher than the 2006 counts and 18% higher than the 2005 mark. More...
