The Fort Pierre National Grassland supports premier grouse hunting as well as maintaining an excellent population of pheasants. The territories of these gamebirds also overlap along the Missouri River, and recent surveys show healthy populations of both in the Pierre area, where the hunting season on public lands runs from mid-October through the beginning of January. Numerous commercially operated preserves in the Pierre area offer pheasant hunting until early spring. Look for pheasants in farmed fields, tree strips and wetlands; grouse prefer native prairie grass and brushy areas.