A friend joined a pheasant Co-Op with 16,000 acres of land committed to the program north of Sacramento. We drove around looking at a large percentage of it covering more than 150 miles on the odometer. Saw scalped fields with one ranch hand spraying the only 15 plants of orchard grass remaining on a 1/2 section of clod less brown pool table being the norm. Saw no dead or live pheasants in the whole drive. It will be ditch running for planted birds in the extreme. I suggested he get a drone with a camera to spot the birds before he commits to the ditch.