KEWANEE, Ill. — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources has announced a reduction in permits for controlled pheasant hunting in several parts of northern Illinois. The reduction comes after a ...

Pheasant hunting has been as much a part of the Thanksgiving holiday for generations of Iowans, as cranberries and stuffing. And with a seasonable weather forecast that will likely put birds in cover, ...

Southeast Iowa Union offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Pheasant hunting has been as much a part of the Thanksgiving holiday for generations of Iowans, ...

An overcast sky, a temperature in the low 30s and a week-old snow that was anything other than pristine made for the ideal conditions for an early-winter pheasant hunt. For the two Labrador retrievers ...

Led by Matt Carlson, of Fort Dodge, at left, a group of hunters work a field north of Badger. The hunters are part of a group of veterans who have been gathering here for two decades to hunt pheasants ...

Craig Helke and Dylan Burrow have developed a clearly defined marketing brand for Rooster Ridge Pheasant Farms, based on their own pheasant hunting experiences. A brand is a promise of what customers ...

This time of year, it’s still dark when Patrick Rickaby and his springer Ada leave home. They climb out of Patrick’s truck at dawn deep in the heart of Cape Cod National Seashore. Ada’s a bird dog, ...

Pheasants were first released in southern Michigan in 1917 - pen-reared birds of mixed blood known as “ringnecks” which owe their origins to eastern U.S. game farms, which in turn had gotten their ...

This past weekend, I finally got the chance to get out and do a little pheasant hunting. It’s a trip my crew and I have made for years down in the Armour–Wagner area. We missed it last season, but ...