North Dakota Outdoors: The future of fishing
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 ...
Outdoor Connections: Why we are drawn back to the prairie
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 ...
Local Outdoors
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 ...
Algal bloom advisories, warnings updated
BISMARCK – The North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality has issued a harmful algal bloom advisory for Blacktail Dam in Williams County, bringing the number of state waterbodies under an active advisory or warning to 18. Harmful algal blooms, also called HABs or blue-green algae, can develop quickly in warm, sunny weather. Some blooms produce cyanotoxins that can make people, pets and livestock sick if the water is swallowed or touched. An advisory means a bloom is present in portions of the waterbody. A warning means a bloom covers a significant portion of the waterbody and ...
Excellence in forestry honored at 2026 Trees Bowl
FARGO – Fourteen "Trees Award" winners from across the state were recognized at the 36th Trees Bowl and Awards Ceremony on Saturday, Aug. 29. The Trees Awards recognize individuals, organizations and agencies who contribute in an outstanding way to forestry activities. This year’s ...