Wild Pennsylvania Pheasant Youth Hunt A Success

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

USA -(Ammoland.com)- For the first time in over 20 years, Pennsylvania hunters have harvested wild pheasants.

Over two picturesque Saturday mornings in November, junior hunters took to the fields of Montour and Northumberland counties to pursue pheasant roosters within the Central Susquehanna Wild Pheasant Recovery Area.

This event marked the success of a decades-long collaborative project to restore habitat and wild pheasants back to the Keystone State.

Following surveys that revealed hunters’ desire to restore wild pheasant populations to Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, in partnership with several key Pheasants Forever established Wild Pheasant Recovery Areas (WPRAs) in four areas of the state.

Pheasants Forever biologists and chapter members worked closely with cooperating landowners to establish crucial winter and nesting habitat needed for pheasant survival. Much of the habitat created was thanks to the USDA’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, which provided landowners with annual payments to set aside portions of their property and primarily plant warm-season grass stands.

After quality pheasant habitat was established, Pheasants Forever, the Game Commission and Habitat Forever partnered with western states to trap thousands of wild pheasants from South Dakota and Montana and relocate the birds within WPRAs.

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