Outdoors

Opening weekend of pheasant season provides an economic boom throughout the state. This year's opener remains on par with recent years.

On October 30, 1919, South Dakota held its first official pheasant hunting season.

The South Dakota Historical Society details the Aberdeen, South Dakota pheasant sandwiches of the 1940s.

In this Dakota Life story from 2010, we visit an Ipswich area pheasant farm producing more than half a million birds annually and look at a southeast South Dakota farming operation that includes a hunting lodge.

In this 2010 Dakota Life story, come pheasant hunting with Maggie Lindsey, the Outdoor Education Coordinator with the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks Department.

In this 1962 clip of The American Sportsman Host Curt Gowdy is in Howard, South Dakota, hunting with actor Robert Stack and WWII heroes Joe Foss and General James Dolittle.

Travel South Dakota has announced 23 "Rooster Rush" grant opportunities for communities across the state. Eligible communities will receive promotional materials for pheasant hunting.

World War II hero and former South Dakota governor Joe Foss offers some pheasant hunting safety tips in this clip from a 1962 episode of "The American Sportsman" filmed near Howard, South Dakota.

South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks, said they are extremely optimistic on harvest numbers this year.

Come salmon fishing on the Missouri River with Kevin Thibodeau