Jay Delaney, commissioner for the PGC’s Northeast Region, with his dog Hunter, before the start of a wild pheasant flushing survey last week in Columbia County. TOM VENESKY/the times leader ROHRSBURG, ...

Ring-necked pheasants were first stocked by the Pennsylvania Game Commission in 1915, but populations didn’t significantly increase until after 1923 when laws were enacted establishing bag and season ...

Since 2007, the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Pheasants Forever have released approximately 1,000 wild pheasants in Columbia, Montour and Northumberland counties in an effort to establish ...

The recent October pheasant season here in the Thumb proved to be outstanding for my hunting guests and me, with plenty of wild birds and shooting opportunities. This, of course, left me quite ...

California’s wild ring-necked pheasant season is open and for the second consecutive year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will collect genetic tissue – a tongue clip – from ...

William O'Boyle, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Oct. 23—WILKES-BARRE — Plenty of stocked pheasants throughout the fall and winter seasons await bird hunters. With birds exploding from cover, ...

A colorful, raucous invasive species made good, the ringnecked pheasant is our most successful wildlife import. Brought to Oregon from China in 1881, the pheasant spread from coast to coast. It became ...

About 40 years ago, my friend and neighbor, the late Fred Martin of Cass City, informed me about a new wildlife habitat organization called Pheasants Forever (PF). Fred had just attended a banquet ...