You may have seen this or I may even have posted this before but the DFW site has pheasant harvest numbers from the 96 season to the 2010 season when they stopped including pheasant take in their posted take listings. You can go back and see how many birds were killed on the refuges and how much the take changed from year to year.
Go to the archive of hunt results and then down to the bottom of the page to see year to year comparison. They used to include pheasant take until it got both too bad to show and not a thing they wanted to promote.
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/waterfowl/shoot/
Go to the archive of hunt results and then down to the bottom of the page to see year to year comparison. They used to include pheasant take until it got both too bad to show and not a thing they wanted to promote.
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/waterfowl/shoot/