On The Wing Podcast

Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever government affairs duo Jim Inglis and Bethany Erb join us and recap our journey to create upland habitat in the 2018 Farm Bill. The group also debates the prevalence of acronyms in the conservation world, the symptoms of Potomac Fever, and how our policy work in D.C. is also creating public access for bird hunters.

North Dakota has experienced massive habitat loss in the last decade largely due to CRP loss. In this episode, we catch up with the Pheasants Forever employee team in North Dakota to learn about the innovative ways their working to return some of those acres back to habitat for the birds. We also take advantage of the opportunity to talk with five avid female bird hunters about how they are helping introduce more women to the joys of following a bird dog into a pheasant field.

Hank Shaw, author of the new Pheasant, Quail, Cottontail cookbook (and Quail Forever Life Member), joins Bob St.Pierre at a ruffed grouse hunting camp in northern Wisconsin.

The duo discuss the amazing diversity of upland game across the country’s different regions, while also chatting bird hunting, foraging and cooking quail, grouse, pheasants and woodcock during this episode.

Pheasants Forever editor Tom Carpenter talks about the six tricks roosters use, and how pheasant hunters can combat them. And can the discussion group come up with a better term than "hardcore"?

With the pheasant hunting on publicly-accessible habitat and land finishing on a strong note, the Rooster Road Trip crew looks back on a week in pheasant country’s epicenter. We also take listener questions on bird dog feeding and care, storing birds on the road and dealing with hunting buddies who burn the midnight oil.

Aberdeen area walk-in hunting areas that are part of the James River Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program produce the type of South Dakota pheasant hunt you dream about. The corn just came out, there's a triple rooster flush and we close with advice for novice upland hunters to keep developing their upland skills.

It's a tale of two days as a tough day of hunting is followed by a bountiful day in the field. Pheasants Forever's Rooster Road Trip public habitat and public access ambassadors are dealing with a plethora of bird dog injuries. Despite the challenges, the trip's new addition, Emy Marier, and her bird dog combine for their first South Dakota rooster during a magical Golden Hour hunt.

When Plan A fails, Plan B turns into an upland dreamscape walk-in area in West River South Dakota. And the "Golden Hour" hunt on a Pierre Game Production Area turns into a track meet with racing roosters. Speaking of rooster, why aren't we yelling "Rooster!"?

Pheasants Forever's Rooster Road Trip, South Dakota's gigantic pheasant hunting season opener, 100 years of South Dakota pheasant hunting, how to plan a South Dakota bucket list bird hunt and unraveling the mystery meat that is chislic. Featuring South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks wildlife biologists Tom Kirschenmann and Mark Norton, and the department's communications specialist, Chris Hull.

We preview Pheasants Forever’s Rooster Road Trip and talk about the origins of “The Habitat Organization’s” signature digital event. The 2018 Rooster Road Trip is an all-South Dakota affair, as the undisputed Pheasant Capital celebrates a Pheasantennial, its 100th pheasant hunting season. And like all Rooster Road Trips prior, this year’s will highlight publicly-accessible lands and habitat projects which Pheasants Forever has played a significant role in creating through land purchases, local habitat projects or legislative action.