Category Archives: News
Upland Birds: Cover Needs & Dealing with Drought
Join us on November 7 from 9am-11am at the Burlington Community Center (Room B), 340 S. 14th Street, Burlington, Colorado. AGENDA 9:00am-9:30am: Pheasant Cover Shannon Bowling, Farm Bill Wildlife Biologist, Pheasants Forever/NRCS/Colorado Parks and Wildlife Where did pheasants come from? … Continue reading
Landowner Workshop – ‘Improving Your Bottom Line’
By Using PLAYA and HABITAT Restoration Programs Date: November 27, 2012 Location:Phillips County Event Center, 22505 North US Highway 385 Holyoke, Colorado [ws_table id=”1″] Click here to download a copy of the Landowner Workshop Flyer Click here to download a … Continue reading
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Hunter Outreach Program
The Hunter Outreach Program offers clinics and seminars throughout the year to give novice and experienced hunters alike opportunities to improve upon hunting skills, practices, and techniques. Past clinics have covered elk, waterfowl, grouse, and turkey hunting, duck identification, ‘new … Continue reading
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CRP Mid-Contract Management Tour
A Mid-contract Management (MCM) field tour was conducted September 15, 2011 in Holyoke Colorado for personnel from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Farm Services Agency (FSA), Pheasants Forever (PF) Conservation Districts and Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW). Attendees … Continue reading
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Windbreak Plantings
Division research conducted in the early 1980’s indicated that severe winter weather was the limiting factor for pheasants in eastern Colorado, particularly when winter snow storms were accompanied by strong winds and drifting snow. Pheasants inhabiting poor, thin cover were … Continue reading
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Shrub Thickets
Shrub Thicket s Planted by Chapter by Year 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Totals Phillips County 26 51 41 63 54 58 48 24 18 9 392 Yuma County 7 30 36 … Continue reading
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Two Row Shrub Thickets
This habitat option serves a dual purpose; establishing permanent shrub cover along the many dry creeks common to eastern Colorado, and to enhance hunting within non-farmed creek bottoms, which are very attractive to pheasants and hunters. On many of these … Continue reading
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Field Windbreaks
Field windbreak plantings offer pheasants a variety of cover values. Pheasants use them primarily as travel corridors between different fields, as loafing cover during the day, and often to establish breeding territories and crowing sites. The presence of field windbreaks … Continue reading
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Switchgrass Plantings
Year round survival cover is a significant limiting factor for Colorado’s pheasant population. From Division research from the mid 1990’s, it is evident that pheasants face significant mortality pressures nearly every month of the year, because night-roosting and survival cover … Continue reading
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