pheasant

Look for a crowd in the Missouri woods and Kansas fields Saturday.

The occasion? Opening day of the Missouri firearms deer season and the Kansas pheasant season.
About 450,000 hunters will be out for Missouri deer and 125,000 for Kansas gamebirds.
The prospects are outstanding, as usual.

They eventually left the yard, Wally, Todd, and Garrett were in the cab~ Wally crawled through that window that is open. And, of course, this guy~ Skipper also went along~ He loves riding in the back!

The land is flat, but it has a certain charm. Early in the morning or late in the afternoon, farm and grasslands as far as the eye can see take on a rich, golden cast that Jeff White recognized 29 years ago when he started a pheasant hunting operation in Haskell County and called it Golden Prairie Hunting Service.

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin on Nov. 4 officially dedicated a newly expanded pheasant rearing complex at the state-owned Rockport Pheasant Farm in Mansfield Township. The new complex, expected to raise more than 55,000 pheasants annually, was created at no cost to taxpayers, with the $1.3 million project financed by sportsmen's fees and stamps, the commissioner said.

The pheasant complex unveiled today includes a new brooder house, egg incubators and hatching room. These upgrades create a modern operation that includes automatic egg turning in forced-air circulating incubators, and automated feeding.
Funding for the project was provided through the Hunters and Anglers account within the Division of Fish and Wildlife; no state tax dollars were used. The cost of raising and stocking pheasants is also entirely borne by hunters who purchase pheasant stamps in addition to their hunting licenses. This makes the Rockport facility a prime example of a "user pays" system.