Question about PA pheasants: Does the state own enough of the right kind of land, which they could properly manage for pheasant habitat, to have a significant impact on bird numbers? I lived in Iowa most of my life, and the fortunes of our pheasant population do not depend, for the most part, on what the state does or does not do. Rather, they depend on things like the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which created about 2 million acres of great habitat back in the mid-80's--as a result of which our bird numbers about doubled. Lately, weather has been unusually unfriendly, and numbers have fallen off drastically.
