Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
South Dakota Game Fish & Parks recently announced it would be discontinuing it's summer roadside brood count surveys, and instead would rely on extrapolation of weather conditions in winter and spring to facilitate a guess at what hunters may find in the field each fall.
At a meeting of the South Dakota Game Fish & Parks Commission (GFP) on June 4, the agency declared it
would be discontinuing its summer pheasant brood surveys, suggesting that the numbers – which have
trended significantly lower in recent years due to decreasing habitat on the landscape of the Rushmore
State – were not as important as maintaining and marketing the state's title of "The World's Phe...
