In the late 70' s and early 80' s, I lived in a rural area of Lehigh County, I still recall the time I drove home from work and saw 40 - 50 cock birds brawling in the cut corn field along side my house. Then they started building houses like crazy and farmers began plowing their fields right out to the road. And the birds disappeared. Once in a while, I still see a stray cock pheasant in May, which means he made it through both winter and hunting season. But he' ll die of loneliness as I don' t think the PGC stocks hens anymore south of I -80. Why stock at all? Sounds just like the Fish Commission trout program, ie; it' s a tradition. At one time the PGC was fooling around with a hardier pheasant but I guess nothing came of it. Me, I' d rather hunt turkeys.