Kansas Hunts
Pheasant Specific
Upland Bird Topics | Snapshots of some north central Kansas pheasant habitat. The grass habitat ranges from thin and short to tall and thick. The wide range of grass quality reflects the more sporadic and isolated summer rains of this region.
Two examples of grass quality, above and below. In each case a pheasant point.
The grass above is 160 contiguous acreage CRP field, heavy in early morning frost, no wind.
It has taken three years for this field to reach this quality of warm season grass height and thickness. It is common for first year CRP to show little cover habitat value. Second year CRP quality is entirely dependent on soil and water quality. From the third year onwards the warm season grasses typically have the expansive deep roots structure to produce good to high quality cover habitat. Seven year plus CRP cover quality is dependent on local USDA/FSA/NRCS enforcement of contractual landowner maintenance actions. Those that have hunted Sherman County have seen first year CRP.
Below a filter strip that ran the drainages of a 240 acre row crop piece continuing barely visible in the picture far ground.
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