SportsmansNews.com
October 2014
Volume 10 Issue 10
The Total Package - South Dakota’s Tumbleweed Lodge
By Kent Danjanovich Senior Editor
S
outh Dakota is renowned world-wide for its pheasant hunting and rightfully so. Did you know that only three times in the past 20 years has the annual pheasant harvest been under 1,000,000 roosters and those “down” years had well over 900,000 harvested birds. Counts from 2012 show that almost 1.5 million pheasants were harvested – no wonder so many hunters from around the world travel
to South Dakota each year to partake of this great sport. The ring-necked pheasant is the state bird of South Dakota, one of only three U.S. state birds that is not a species native to the United States. The pheasant came to South Dakota in 1908 when a group of farmers purchased a pair of birds from an Oregon farm and released them into a field near Redfield. The hearty pheasant not only survived, but thrived on the prairie, continued on page 6
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