Minnesota DNR Working On 4-Year Plan To Boost Pheasant Numbers

We recently reported on the first ever Pheasant Summit, with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources looking for input to deal with the plight of a bird whose numbers or declining in startling numbers.

According to the Minnesota DNR press release, this first summit brought together Gov. Mark Dayton and 300-plus hunters, farmers and conservation experts, including those from Pheasants Forever. Together, they focused on pheasant habitat, pheasant biology and they spent much of the day identifying potential solutions to the plight of a bird whose numbers are declining at a significant rate.

“Citizens talked. We listened. The next step is to convert words into actions,” Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr Landwehr is quoted as saying in the press release.

Thanks to citizen input, a summary of the Pheasant Summit recomendations will be created and shared with the public in mid-January.

The action plan should be completed in 2015 and will include recommendations for increasing the quality and quantity of public grasslands. However private farmland is also extremely important as that is what drives pheasant numbers.

If you attended the summit, it important to know that your voice was heard.