Early winter in North Dakota is unlike anything else – a time of transition, not just in the weather, but in mindset. The landscape quiets. The urgency of fall – hunting seasons, harvest, migration – fades and the brown turns white. Christmas and the holidays add to the stress. After the ...

WASHINGTON — The Bureau of Land Management has announced updated plans that enhance conservation of Greater sage-grouse habitat while balancing access to public lands for responsible energy and mineral development across the Dakotas, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and California, Utah and Wyoming. ...

BISMARCK – U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer, R-ND, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Angela Alsobrooks, D-Md., EPW T&I ranking member; John Curtis, R-Utah; and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., introduced legislation to reauthorize the ...

One of the long-standing goals of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department is to keep hunting and fishing regulations as simple and straightforward as possible, all while ensuring the protection of the resource for future generations. That balance isn’t always easy. But before taking a ...

As much as we look forward to it each year, early ice season always brings a mix of excitement and concern. The excitement is understandable. For many North Dakotans, there’s something about that first layer of ice stretching across a favorite slough or lake that gets the blood pumping. ...

BISMARCK – North Dakota’s river otter trapping season is closed. The statewide season’s predetermined harvest limit of 30 has been reached, according to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Only North Dakota residents were eligible to participate, with a season limit of one otter ...