If you've spent any time around North Dakota's prairie potholes, you probably noticed more hens with ducklings. That's not just fall hunters wishful thinking. The Game and Fish Department surveys confirm it. Duck brood numbers are up 55% from 2025. Every spring and summer, North Dakota Game ...
Like many hunters, anglers and anyone with an interest in North Dakota’s outdoors, I’ve taken for granted the North Dakota OUTDOORS magazine. It began and remains a rare combination for news and insight, explaining the current regulations and impacts of habitat to walleye stocking and ...
Unlike deer, upland game and waterfowl, the production of fisheries is hard to notice on a year-by-year basis. What hasn’t changed is the strong boost the beginning of the early 1990s wet cycle has provided for decades or fishing success in North Dakota. As it’s been said, we’re living ...
Certain places remain with you long after you've left. For me, it is northwest North Dakota that I return to each September. The country around Stanley and north toward the Lostwood area is some of the prairie country I remember most clearly. Rolling grasslands, open fields and wide skies ...
Youth deer season Sept. 18 at noon CDT signals the start of a nine-and-a-half-day deer hunting season for licensed youth hunters. The youth license is valid during the youth deer season that closes Sept. 27, and the regular deer gun season running from Nov. 6-22. After opening day, hunting hours are a half-hour before sunrise to a half-hour after sunset. Orange clothing is required for youth hunters and mentors. Each young deer hunter must be under direct supervision of an adult. The adult is prohibited from carrying a firearm or bow while accompanying the youth hunter in the ...
