{"id":22036,"date":"2013-06-28T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22036"},"modified":"2013-06-28T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T16:58:44","slug":"latest-future-pheasant-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=22036","title":{"rendered":"Latest-Future Pheasant Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Wildlife officials say North Dakota ring-neck pheasant numbers are down slightly due to harsh winter conditions. But lush nesting habitat this summer should bolster the birds&#8217; population by the fall hunting season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Game and Fish biologist Stan Kohn says officials heard about 11 percent less crows from ring-neck roosters during the annual crowing count survey.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The survey involves wildlife officials from across the state who drive 20-mile routes, stopping every two miles for two minutes to listen for a male pheasant crowing to attract hens.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kohn says early signs point toward a strong pheasant population this fall due to near ideal nesting habitat this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Wildlife officials say North Dakota ring-neck pheasant numbers are down slightly due to harsh winter conditions. But lush nesting habitat this summer should bolster the birds&#8217; population by the fall hunting season. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Game and Fish biologist Stan Kohn says officials heard about 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22036","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\/22036","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=22036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22038,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22036\/revisions\/22038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}