Tree stands, blinds, steps and other personal items, such as cameras, must be removed from all wildlife management areas by Wednesday, Jan. 31. Items not removed by then are considered abandoned property and are subject to removal and confiscation by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department.

If you were born after 1961, are 12 years or older, you must take a certified hunter education course before you can get a firearm or bowhunting license in North Dakota. Register with North Dakota Game and Fish.

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s annual Earth Day Patch Contest is, in part, an effort to heighten the awareness about the environment in North Dakota and beyond. Students who participate will develop a patch design using five colors incorporating an aspect of Earth Day such as ...

Bobcat hunting and trapping in Zone 2 is closed after the zone’s predetermined harvest limit of eight has been reached. Zone 2 is land east of U.S Highway 83. The bobcat season in Zone 1 has no harvest limit and is open through March 15.

The first time I felt safe enough to check the ice thickness was Thanksgiving weekend. It wasn’t safe yet at 1.5 inches. A week later and it still wasn’t. In early December we had 50-plus degree temperatures, making late season pheasant hunters and archery deer hunters smile. The ice ...

Hunters this past fall had more than 800,000 Private Land Open To Sportsmen (PLOTS) acres available – an increase of about 5,000 acres from 2022 for this walk-in access program. Some might be disappointed to read the number, which has shrunk from the historical high of over 1 million acres. ...