Less than two weeks after the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources received a shipment of 500 pheasant hatchlings “approximately 470″ of the chicks were found dead in their pens.
Less than two weeks after the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources received a shipment of 500 pheasant hatchlings in June, “approximately 470″ of the chicks were found dead in their pens.
“It is very unfortunate that this incident occurred, and we have taken steps to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” Jolley added. But the release of the pen-raised birds is just a stop gap measure that may even be negatively affecting the health of the wild bird populations still remaining.The Utah Investigative Journalism Project filed a request for documentation into the agency’s communications or investigation of the incident in which the chicks died of thirst and starvation and was told there were no such records.
The pheasant hunt generally runs during the end of November and into the first week of December, with special youth hunts hosted every year. He says the state has invested in youth hunts with farm-raised birds that help get the youth excited about the hunt. They also give older hunters like himself the chance to assist, while taking their pheasant dogs out and reliving their own childhood hunting memories.
But those birds face long odds and have so far been “pushed and pushed until they have nowhere to go.”For Biblehimer with Pheasants Forever, a national advocacy group for wild pheasants, releasing pen-raised birds that can’t cope in the wild does nothing to help dwindling populations of wild birds. His organization has tracked the lost populations that have disappeared along with the vanishing grassland prairies that used to stretch across the nation like an ocean. Seventy percent of those lands have gone since 1966, and with them 40% of the grassland bird populations. Their demise is linked closely with the disappearance of ranch and grazing lands across the West.
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