It all comes down to cover with pheasant...
no cover they yotes find them easily... the weather kills them easily.
The problem is this new generation of farmers / corporate farms have completely removed all the fence rows and removed that cover.
In places where the field boundary’s are creeks to wet for tractors the population is doing well - but for Western KS, and Eastern Colorado - as always it’s the farmers that are doing the damage to wildlife.
heck Kansas (the state) forces farmers to poison thier prairie dogs, they do drive by’s looking for signs of Pdogs - if they see them, they deliver bags of poison for the farmer to put out to kill them off. IF the farmer doesn’t do it, they hire people to go poison them and send the farmer the bill. I used to Pdog hunt in KS... but there aren’t any decent populations anymore, and the guys doing Pdog outfitting that was fighting the state in lawsuits either died or ran out of money, some of both really.
Pretty crazy huh
Last edited by Spotshooter; 12/12/19.
