There’s a reason they call these decisions preliminary. Pennsylvania Game Commissioners voted at their April meeting to shrink the size of two of their remaining three wild pheasant recovery areas.

For Biblehimer with Pheasants Forever, a national advocacy group for wild pheasants, releasing pen-raised birds that can’t cope in the wild does nothing to help dwindling populations of wild birds.

Between 1993 and 1995, the PGC attempted to introduce a new pheasant into the wild-pheasant void by releasing more than 20,000 Sichuan pheasants on six study areas within the state.

I’ve written recently how the wild or native pheasant in Wisconsin is becoming scarcer and scarcer as more prime habitat is lost to urbanization, development, and changing farming practices.

Q: Wild pheasants in the Sacramento Valley have been in steep decline for many years and very little effort, if any, is being made to help this once-abundant game bird make a comeback. Improved ...

The Game Commission also is considering a $25 pheasant hunting permit to help pay for its support of pheasant hunting. The WPRAs aim to create wildlife habitat to encourage wild bird populations.

They may have once called Montana home, but now several hundred wild pheasants reside on more than 50,000 acres in Columbia, Montour and Northumberland counties. A total of 1,000 pheasants ...

Pheasants Forever project with the Pennsylvania Game Commission builds on 2014 infusion of wild, western birds.

In addition to the wild birds, the department plans to release about 40,000 pheasants at sites across southwestern Washington. That is an increase of 2,000 birds over 2013.

Kuyper was feeding nearly 20,000 pheasants soon to be released into the wild, which he sees as crucial to maintain South Dakota's place as the pheasant capital of the nation.

Most of the adult pheasants raised at Reynolds each year are released into the wild just prior to, and during the fall pheasant hunting season, which is set for Oct. 1 to Feb. 28 in the eastern ...

The pheasant hunting tradition in Pennsylvania started in the early 20th century with the introduction of ringnecks from Asia into the state for hunting purposes.