Jordan Martincich has watched the pheasants' world shrink in northeast Kansas. He remembers the days when he was learning to hunt, and places such as Marshall and Nemaha counties were the perfect setting. The fields were full of wheat and milo and there was plenty of habitat in land set aside for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a federal program that compensates landowners for idling marginal land and enhancing wildlife habitat. As a result, there were plenty of pheasants. But my, how things have changed. Today, much of that CRP land is...
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