OH MY

imho no to baiting of big game

I agree 1000%

I think most of the guys here agree on that and so does the PGC. This is a cheap shot by a small bunch of jerkweed legislators who can't stop sticking their nose into game management.

Pheasants survive much worse winters in South Dakota.

It seem that perhaps the winters don’t limit pheasant reproduction as much as today’s farming methods and hay mowing schedules do. Up here we don’t have much hay mowing so the brooding hens aren’t getting their heads chopped off with a hay mower in early June like they do in most farming areas. Our pheasants spend their springs and summers on reclaimed strip jobs where there not only is no hay mowing but an abundance of grassy cover with plenty of insects.

The local Pheasants Forever Chapter is also one of the leading in the nation in money spent on both winter and summer habitat development. In fact I just got back from one of their meetings where they were planning winter work projects for the pubic to get involved in habitat work on both the game lands and private lands in the primary pheasant habitat areas.

Having people and groups working together with the Game Commission for the benefits of wildlife, instead of just complaining and undermining, tend to make a pretty positive difference, I guess.

R.S. Bodenhorn

IF pgc wouldnt give such strong reasons for people to complain, maybe they wouldnt.

Sorry, stocking a few tame pheasants isnt gonna get hunters toturn a blind eye to an ecoextremist orienteddeer plan. FAR more hunters are DEER hunters first and foremost.

Carl Roe can point to squirrel and you can point to pheasant, but hunters arent interested in the distraction for the most part.

Just because hunters don't want something, mean nothing. Remember the cross bow vote.

If DCNR wants baiting, it could become legal on DMAP lands.

If you are seeing dozens of pheasants ,why aren't the predators seeing those same birds and having an easy dinner?

In the Dakotas the pheasants have the protective cover along streams and ditches with windswept corn fields to provide food. What do the pheasants eat in Elk with 2 ft. of snow cover and no grain fields?

Your belittling attitude is getting old, why must every one repeat things over and over only to have you claim its all bs any ways. You were already told what the pheasants in Elk county eat.
Just like the slim fast commercials I guess every thing needs repeated over and over.For the little [&:]bird to get it.

If Elk County is such a great area for pheasants to live and breed, why are hunters allowed to shoot hens? Why do we have an extended season from Dec. 15 until Feb. 7?

in most of SGL land here in wmu2g, most of pheasants are gone the first week after stocked.

hunting and predators are reason..i was at millers gun shop and talked to lee ann.

she said they stocked pheasants on their land and did not hunt them for a week.

she said MOST were gone,it had to be fox,coyotes that did it and i would put FOX at top of the pheasant killers.