Hunting dogs, fine firearms, and enjoying both.
Posted in ENJOYING BOTH on Feb 27th, 2013
If you love pheasant hunting, please watch this video. Upland game habitat is being destroyed at accelerating rate across the midwest. Since 2006, 1.3 million+ acres of once conserved land have gone under the plow. The result is far fewer bird. Pheasant numbers in states like Iowa are already collapsing. If the trend continues, the [...]
Posted in ENJOYING BOTH on Feb 23rd, 2013
Upland birds are in trouble in the midwest. In the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, the grasslands that pheasants, sharptails, and huns depend upon are being ground under the plow. As these birds loose these vital areas, their populations will plummet. Guaranteed. I’ve written about this problem before. The article below from NPR puts up [...]
Posted in ENJOYING BOTH on Jun 8th, 2011
Water – it seems like some parts of the western US can’t get enough of it and other parts are flooded under it. Unfortunately, a couple of the areas with too much water this spring are also big bird hunting regions. Northeast Montana and North Dakota have had a ton of cold, wet weather lately. [...]
