Though you asked for an e-mail, I will respond here for the interest of others who may share your fall ambitions.
NE ND is just due north of me and like here they have been awash with rain. Much of it in mid June when the hatch was on and they were cold rains. Hyperthermia was devastating to so many of the chicks.
I hunted spring geese at Devil's Lake and dined with a regional ND G&F biologist. He said pheasant numbers were not good in Eastern ND and if that is true, the rains certainly made fall prospects poor.
For what it is worth NE SD has fared no better.
