| Kansas has long been considered a great | | | | population has been depleted. |
| pheasant hunting destination. The numbers vary | | | | Due to a dedicated effort to boost the bird |
| year to year, but it consistently ranks in the top | | | | population though, organizations such as Pheasants |
| four, along with South Dakota, for locations to | | | | Forever have began preserving and restoring |
| pheasant hunt. With a little research, a sportsman | | | | pheasant habitat in conjunction with local |
| can find many great locations Kansas offers to | | | | landowners. They've lobbied for changes in federal |
| the pheasant hunter. | | | | farming policies, and worked to educate people on |
| Doing research on both pheasant and the Kansas | | | | the importance of conservation. In 1995 Kansas |
| landscape will be essential for a good hunt. Habitat | | | | initiated a Walk-In Hunting Area program in which |
| varies greatly every year depending on a number | | | | landowners enrolled more than one million acres of |
| of factors; precipitation is the primary concern | | | | land for the use of fowl hunting. This not only |
| which determines crop growth for the year. Tall | | | | loosened the strain on public land during pheasant |
| grass and crop fields are the best locations in | | | | season, but it gave hunters a chance to hunt |
| Kansas to find pheasant, but a severe drought | | | | locations normally off limits to them. Also, only |
| could almost completely diminish this habitat for | | | | walk-in traffic was allowed, which meant no |
| the pheasant, so knowing what the weather has | | | | waiting lists and no extra license fees for hunters. |
| done for the year will be an important factor in | | | | Kansas also offers the hunter many professional |
| your Kansas pheasant hunt. | | | | guide services to assist him on his pheasant hunt. |
| Crop fields are some of the best hunting locations | | | | These guides are often experts of the area in |
| available in Kansas. The condition of the crop is | | | | terrain and pheasant behavior, so enlisting their |
| paramount however; wheat crop is important to | | | | help can be a priceless resource for the hunter |
| pheasant nesting so if the crop doesn't do well, | | | | looking to limit out on this clever and challenging |
| neither will the fowl that depends on it. Also, | | | | fowl. With a little time and research a hunter can |
| changes in Kansas' agricultural practices have | | | | find plenty of great locations offered to him by |
| greatly affected the pheasant population in the | | | | the great pheasant hunting state of Kansas. |
| past 20 years; Much of the once great pheasant | | | | |