Pheasant reprieve
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- January
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Gov. David Paterson this afternoon rescinded his plan to close the state’s pheasant-rearing facility — which would have sent some 9,000 pheasants to the butcher and then upstate food banks — and said the state would work with hunters to figure out how to fund the pheasant farm.
Paterson last month had said the farm would be closed as part of the effort to close the state’s budget gap. That had upset hunters, who were going to court to stop the farm’s shutdown.
The game farm near Ithaca is the state’s last pheasant-rearing facility and it provides most of the birds that hunters pursue each fall.
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