{"id":82124,"date":"2015-09-16T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82124"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:28:31","slug":"pheasant-population-up-hunting-starts-oct-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=82124","title":{"rendered":"Pheasant population, up, hunting starts Oct 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28644\" alt=\"pheasant\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pheasant-300x202.jpg\" 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\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s pheasant population has increased by nearly one-third over the past year, thanks to a pleasant winter and favorable weather during the spring nesting season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The estimated 30 percent increase in birds over 2014 mirrors increases in nearby states including South Dakota, where the pheasant population is up about 42 percent. North Dakota Game and Fish Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says that could spread out hunting pressure, raising the prospects for an even more successful hunt this fall.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota&#8217;s regular pheasant season opens Oct. 10 and continues through next Jan. 3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pheasant hunting is big business in North Dakota. More than 50,000 hunters go after upland game including pheasants in a typical year, with each of them spending an average of nearly $100 per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s pheasant population has increased by nearly one-third over the past year, thanks to a pleasant winter and favorable weather during the spring nesting season. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The estimated 30 percent increase in birds over 2014 mirrors increases in nearby states including South Dakota, where [&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-82124","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\/82124","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=82124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82141,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82124\/revisions\/82141"}],"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=82124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}