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PIERRE, S.D. Pheasant survey routes indicate that hunters who take the fields in 2007 will be greeted by one of the largest pheasant populations in South Dakota history. Brood count surveys by the S.D. Game, Fish and Parks Department project pheasant numbers the likes of which has not been seen since the Soil Bank years of the 1950s and ’60s. The pheasant population index was at a 40-year high in 2005 and the 2007 index tops that historic mark. Overall statewide numbers for 2007 are 23% higher than the 2006 counts and 18% higher than the 2005 mark. Having abundant secure nesting habitat for pheasants that CRP provides was an important factor in 2007. That CRP habitat, coupled with favorable weather conditions in June, resulted in the... [SEE MORE]

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