It's difficult to entice young people to take up the sport of hunting when small game hunting is so poor. Youth can get very discouraged with sitting in a tree stand and seeing very few if any deer.It's generally cold and can be very boring to a kid. Pheasant hunting on the other hand was a wonderful recruitng tool for young hunters. They got to shoot many and multiple times. Missing birds was nearly as much of a delight as was connecting on a rooster. Without a plentyful pheasant stocking program recruiting young people into the sport is not going to happen to any significant degree. Certainly the agency should be well aware of this. A healthy pheasant program would go a long way in gaining new and young hunters into our fold.