The North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently completed its spring pheasant crowing count for the year. According to Rodney Gross, NDGF upland game management biologist, several positives came out of this year’s crow count. Among them, pheasant numbers are up statewide by 9% from last year, and more pheasants are being detected in the Grand Forks region. The count in the northeast — typically not a primary region for pheasants — was 9.3 cro…