North Dakota Outdoors: Aug. 9, 2021

Hints of North Dakota’s fall duck and pheasant populations were revealed in spring.

For starters, the pheasant population index was about the same as last year, according to the state Game and Fish Department’s 2021 spring crowing count survey.

Pheasant crowing counts are conducted each spring throughout North Dakota. Observers drive specified 20-mile routes, stopping at predetermined intervals, a...