Annual Surveys/Investigations Conducted by Game and Fish Personnel and Made Possible by Federal Aid.

Spring

• Pheasant crowing count
• Sharp-tailed grouse lek count
• Sage grouse booming ground survey
• Rural letter carrier roadside counts
• Ruffed grouse drumming counts
• Spring turkey harvest survey
• Mid-May duck breeding pair and pond count survey
• Badlands mule deer population survey
• Bighorn sheep population survey

Summer

• Pheasant, sharptail, and Hungarian partridge roadside reproduction (brood) survey
• July duck brood survey
• Mourning dove population survey
• Antelope population survey

Fall

• Opening weekend grouse/partridge hunter survey
• Sex and age data from hunter-killed upland game (wing surveys) for six species
• Fall turkey harvest survey
• State duck harvest survey
• State goose harvest survey
• Mourning dove harvest survey
• Sandhill crane harvest survey
• Mule deer/bighorn sheep reproduction survey
• Harvest surveys for all big game species

Winter

• Hunter participation survey
• Upland game harvest survey
• Landowner turkey observation questionnaire
• Pheasant winter sex ratio
• Aerial mid-december goose survey
• January wintering waterfowl survey
• Central flyway waterfowl harvest survey
• State white-tailo, moose, and elk density and population trend survey
• Hunter and trapper harvest surveys

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