Frigid temperatures, deep snow leading to starvation, mortality

As she’s been driving to meetings in eastern South Dakota the past few weeks, State Climatologist Laura Edwards has been seeing a lot of pheasants along the roadsides. That’s not a good sign. Deep snowpacks combined with frigid temperatures are making the winter of 2022-23 a tough one on the state’s wildlife. Snowpack depths vary […]

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