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Posts tagged as “pheasants”

Daugaard Wants Crop Insurance to Boost Pheasants; Why Not Grasslands?

Big Ag crowds out pheasants. To restore pheasant numbers and protect South Dakota's shotgun tourism season, Governor Dennis Daugaard proposes more Big Ag, backed with more big government subsidies: "Winter wheat is probably one of the best habitats for pheasants,…

CRP and Pheasants: Anecdote vs. Research

Farmer and pheasant-hunt host David Gillen opines in the Pierre Capital Journal that the Conservation Reserve Program is bad for pheasants and South Dakota wealth: Full 160-acre tracts of CRP are not that desirable for young chicks. After a couple…

Big Ag Crowds out Pheasants. Duh.

Larry Kurtz is right: Governor Dennis Daugaard's Pheasant Habitat Summit in Huron yesterday was an exercise in absurdity. Daugaard spent time and money gathering hundreds of South Dakotans to fret and stew over the decline of a non-native species caused…