Video: Finding pheasants in Kansas

2012-03-16 16:14:57

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By John Hayes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pennsylvania Game Commission spends $2.7 million of hunter-generated funds for a put-and-take pheasant stocking program that is not intended to reestablish a naturally reproducing population.

   
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In Kansas, where the Indonesian birds were originally stocked a century ago, natural reproduction has resulted in a vibrant pheasant hunt.

The conditions there attract hunters from across the United States.

In this video, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Outdoors editor John Hayes samples the way the wild Kansas pheasants hunt and examines the government-subsidized habitat that helps them to prosper.

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Questions or comments on this presentation may be sent here. This video was produced by John Hayes and Melissa Tkach.


First Published February 10, 2008 12:00 am
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