Ring-necked pheasants were first stocked by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in 1915, but populations didn’t significantly increase until after 1923 when laws established bag and season limits. In ...

It is assumed by many folks that pheasants are indigenous to North America, but they are not. Their ancestry hails primarily from Eurasia, where various regions feature distinctly different subspecies ...

From knowing where birds are being stocked to hunting with a bird dog, a state pheasant expert anticipates sportsmen and women will have a great season. The Pennsylvania Game Commission is looking to ...

Gravel crunched under tires and dust kicked up from the access road into Nockamixon State Park, as a Pennsylvania Game Commission truck lumbered through with its cargo of hundreds of fowl. These were ...

WEST FARGO — Context matters when you are comparing numbers and statistics. After a stock market dip and rebound, for example, headlines might tout “the market is up 3%” without telling the whole ...

In the fall of the early 1970s, ring-necked pheasants were the reason I first began hunting. It was a time when wild ring-necks were everywhere in Pennsylvania, a time when you could walk through a ...

The annual opening of Michigan’s pheasant season on October 20 is a revered day for me, and has been since I was a kid. My first memories of hunting are of being in the fields of our farm with ...

Hunters from across the country are heading to Iowa for this year’s pheasant hunting season, which has seen the highest population of pheasants in the state since 2015. The Iowa Department of Natural ...