JAMESTOWN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – The North Dakota Game & Fish Department is hearing a lot of success for hunters participating in the pheasant season that started on October 9th.

Game & Fish Wildlife Biologist Doug Leier.

Leier added they’re seeing a lot of birds coming from the heavier cover now.

The pheasant season runs through January 2, 2022.

In other Game & Fish news, Leier says they’re concentrating in local areas to test deer heads for Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD.

Hunters are encouraged to drop off heads of adult or yearling deer at collection locations. Fawns and head-shot deer cannot be tested. Hunters wishing to keep the heads can bring them to a Game and Fish district office during business hours to have them sampled.

You can get more information by visiting gf.nd.gov.

Listen to Doug Leier talk the Great Outdoors each Thursday at 7:35 AM on Big Dog 95.5 FM.