The preserve is actually our farm where we have lived for over 25 years. We've always had a lot of pheasants and done a lot of hunting with friends and relatives, since many of the farms around us have little cover left after the grain harvest. Ours has a lot of natural feed & cover,( river and drainage ditch banks, gravel pits, wooded areas, hillsides with grass & brush) resulting in a migration of birds to our farm. In 1996 we became a state li...