North Dakota
How past droughts effect pheasant populations
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Hunters from across the nation are heading to North Dakota for what is taken into account one of many “Tremendous Bowl” weekends for sportsmen.
It’s pheasant opener weekend, and numbers this yr are robust, however specialists say there might have been a shift in the place the birds are most populous. They are saying pheasants are extra closely populating within the northwest area this yr, versus the southwest.
The reason being the extreme drought the world skilled final yr and in 2017.
“Within the northwest we nonetheless have moisture, going again to these droughts. It’s fairly easy, a pheasant is a grassland nesting hen, if there’s much less grasslands within the space you’re going to have much less of these birds,” stated Rodney Gross, Upland Sport Biologist with North Dakota Sport and Fish.
Gross reminds hunters to be respectful as farmers are nonetheless harvesting, and to not park in tall grass as a consequence of drought situations which have returned to the world.
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