Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

SD Now Flying Blind on Pheasant Numbers

At a meeting of the South Dakota Game Fish & Parks Commission (GFP) on June 4, the agency declared it

would be discontinuing its summer pheasant brood surveys, suggesting that the numbers – which have

trended significantly lower in recent years due to decreasing habitat on the landscape of the Rushmore

State – were not as important as maintaining and marketing the state's title of "The...