Category Archives: Pheasant Habitat Improvement
Field Windbreaks
Field windbreak plantings offer pheasants a variety of cover values. Pheasants use them primarily as travel corridors between different fields, as loafing cover during the day, and often to establish breeding territories and crowing sites. The presence of field windbreaks … Continue reading
Switchgrass Plantings
Year round survival cover is a significant limiting factor for Colorado’s pheasant population. From Division research from the mid 1990’s, it is evident that pheasants face significant mortality pressures nearly every month of the year, because night-roosting and survival cover … Continue reading
Food and Cover Plots
Food plots encouraged by PHIP encompass two types of projects, including, plots that are seeded to a forage and grain sorghum mix, and those that chapters now refer to as “natural” food plots, which consist of annual forbs such as … Continue reading
Conservation Reserve Program
Today’s Federal Farm Bill programs represent a tremendous opportunity to impact pheasant habitat on a region-wide scale. The Conservation Reserve Program is the largest of the farm bill programs, and could secure large parcels of habitat for pheasants and other … Continue reading
Tall Wheat Stubble
No more striking decline in habitat quality for pheasants exists in Colorado than the decline in quality and quantity of wheat stubble. During a Division research study conducted in the mid 1960’s, wheat stubble and weed canopy in the core … Continue reading
Pheasant Habitat Improvement Program
The Pheasant Habitat Improvement Program, or PHIP, is a joint effort of Pheasants Forever chapters and the Colorado Division of Wildlife to improve pheasant habitat in eastern Colorado. What began in 1992 with a few volunteers from 3 chapters has … Continue reading