St. Paul, MN -(Ammoland.com)- Each year, increases in fall pheasant populations depend on winter and spring weather conditions and the availability of quality habitat.
With winter behind us, attention turns to field reports of pheasant nesting and spring habitat conditions for updated predictions on this year’s pheasant hunting season.
Spring weather and available habitat have fluctuated across the United States. Overall, the outlook is good and pheasant numbers, collectively, continue to rebound, especially in areas with quality winter habitat and undisturbed nesting habitat.
Read what each state’s upland experts have observed and how they intend to continue their missions toward bolstering pheasant numbers nationwide.
About Pheasants Forever:
Pheasants Forever, including its quail conservation division, Quail Forever, is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever have more than 149,000 members and 700 local chapters across the United States and Canada. Chapters are empowered to determine how 100 percent of their locally raised conservation funds are spent; the only national conservation organization that operates through this truly grassroots structure. Since creation in 1982, Pheasants Forever has spent $634 million on 502,000 habitat projects benefiting 14.1 million acres nationwide.
For more information, visit: www.pheasantsforever.org.