Habitat and Land

We own and operate over 1,600+ acres of land in Hand, Beadle and Kingsbury County, SD with pheasant habitat and hunting as our only focus. We are not a farming operation that has "hunting on the side". Hunting is our only business! Each year, we plant new food plots of corn, sorghum, sunflowers, kochia (tumbleweeds) and milo in strategic areas, offering the best winter survival opportunity for our birds. We do NOT plant pen raised birds. We have hunting areas that are close in proximity to each other and contain vast areas of tall prairie grasses. This grass can be as high as five feet. During years of heavy snow, the pheasants tend to concentrate in food plots, sloughs and cattails. Habitat is always the key to a fantastic population of wild birds. We are proud of our efforts in habitat and grass and wetland restoration.

Each spring, we are busy with grass and wetland restoration. Most of our land is restored tall grass prairie. It is an expensive and time consuming task-taking former cropland and restoring it back to the native plants and warm and cool season grasses that were here over 100 years ago. But we think that you will agree, the pheasants like what we have done! Habitat is the number one factor for large sustainable pheasant populations. You must have large blocks of diverse habitat to keep predators at bay, provide food for chicks, and help nurture the pheasant hens through the awesome winters that unfortunately, South Dakota is famous for.

Our wild bird populations are sustained through careful habitat management.

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