{"id":152915,"date":"2018-09-10T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=152915"},"modified":"2018-09-10T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:07:55","slug":"pheasant-numbers-down-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=152915","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Pheasant numbers down again"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28644\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Severe drought in North Dakota in 2017 continues to impact pheasant numbers, with this year&#8217;s summer population survey providing little good news for hunters.Pheasant production last year was at its lowest level in two decades, dramatically reducing the number of adult birds nesting earlier this year. The Game and Fish Department estimates the pheasant population is down 2 percent from last year.The population is up in the southeast and northwest. But in the southwest \u2014 the states&#8217; prime pheasant-hunting territory \u2014 pheasant numbers are down 32 percent.<\/p>\n<p>State Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams expects the overall hunter harvest to be similar to last year, when it totaled only 309,000 birds and was the smallest in 16 years. The agency&#8217;s benchmark for a good hunting season is 500,000 birds killed.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Severe drought in North Dakota in 2017 continues to impact pheasant numbers, with this year&#8217;s summer population survey providing little good news for hunters.Pheasant production last year was at its lowest level in two decades, dramatically reducing the number of adult birds nesting earlier this year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152937,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152915\/revisions\/152937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}