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Pheasants Forever Improves 16,600 SD Acres for Wildlife in ’09

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 3:06 PM
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Pheasants Forever Improves 16,600 SD Acres for Wildlife in ’09

Pheasants Forever

Pheasants Forever

Wolsey, SD –-(AmmoLand.com)- South Dakota’s 33 Pheasants Forever chapters and 4,300 Pheasants Forever members completed 1,700 wildlife habitat projects in 2009, benefitting 16,600-plus acres for pheasants and other wildlife.

This includes 725 acres of land acquired and then opened to public hunting and recreation as state Wildlife Management Areas, federal Waterfowl Production Areas or county conservation areas.

South Dakota Pheasants Forever 2009 Wildlife Habitat Work

Project Type2009 Projects2009 AcresHistorical Project Totals (Since 1982)Total Acres Benefitted (Since 1982)
Nesting Cover1543282728,186
Land Acquisition3725569,983
Wetland Restoration112971,070
Winter Cover21118492,878
Food & Cover Plots1,66315,43215,845173,656
Habitat Maintenance215563,198
TOTALS1,70516,62717,730218,970

For more about Pheasants Forever in South Dakota, contact Ben Bigalke, Pheasants Forever Regional Wildlife Biologist, at 605.350.2409 and BBigalke@pheasantsforever.org.

For additional information please visit www.PheasantsForever.org

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