Save Pennsylvania Pheasant Hunting

[behanna]

It takes birds to make a bird dog. Pheasantspa.org - The Pennsylvania Game Commission has cut the pheasant propagation program by 50% to 100,000 birds statewide. Please come tohttp://www.pheasantspa.org to read more about it and sign our petition to save this important program.

Brian

[blwalt17]

now if i understood your post, you want to have 100,000 pheasants? correct me if i'm wrong.

[mrfritz44]

With the hawk population soaring and no-till farming chemicals making the eggs too soft to bring to hatch, I think pheasant hunting in PA is dead. []

I hate to see this since I remember the days of seeing dozens of wild birds in our back yard. Now, after a commission stocking, half the pen raised birds are torn to shreds by hawks before they're even seen by hunters. Those that actually make it have little habitat to seek shelter for the winter since the farmers now cut the cornstalks to the ground. Come spring, the chemicals they spray to foster agriculture makes the eggs so brittle that they break when the hen nests on them.

I hate to say it, but I think the pheasantaspect of the sport is doomed...................[&o]

[PA GOBBLER]

mrfritz44- i think your right, but i hope land owners and us hunters can work together and turn it around. yes it will take a long time but who knows it could come back.

[bowhuntinoh]

im glad the eforts in ohio are starting to work it takes a ton of birds just to get a few started