Went to Eastern Colorado this Saturday to do some pheasant hunting. We were out by Joes and Idalia. This is going to be a bad year for pheasant, and next year will probably be worse. The farmers out east bailed most of the CRP and walk in areas or let the cattle graze them. There isn't nearly as much cover for the birds and the hatch was not very good this year because of the dry conditions. Two years ago we saw hundreds of birds on opening day. This year we saw less than a hundred. Because the cover is so poor this year if we have a hard winter it is going to kill off a lot of the birds. My guess is that it will be several years before they can recover to great numbers again.