First ice is synonymous around these parts with anxious anglers taking inadvisable risks to curb their appetite for ice fishing. Is it the fish? Is it the ice? Is it the dark, still, cold, hard water peace and solitude? I’m not advocating but acknowledging the balance between risk and ...
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department and North Dakota Department of Agriculture are again opening the Coyote Catalog, a statewide effort designed to connect hunters and trappers with landowners dealing with coyotes in their areas. Landowners can sign up online with the Department of ...
Nonprofit organizations eligible to receive big game hunting licenses in 2025 must have the application submitted to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department no later than Jan. 1. North Dakota state law provides direction for the Game and Fish director to allocate big game hunting licenses ...
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department cautions hunters to be wary of ice conditions. In some parts of the state, there are smaller waters that show the appearance of safe ice. Hunters should be cautious of walking on frozen stock ponds, sloughs, creeks and rivers. Ice can form ...
The statewide duck and white-fronted goose seasons closed Dec. 1. However, duck hunting in the high plains unit reopens Saturday, Dec. 7, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 29. In addition, the season for Canada geese closes Monday, Dec. 16, in the eastern zone, Saturday, Dec. 21. in the ...
You don’t have to be a meteorologist, hydrologist, agronomist or even a biologist to realize North Dakota’s weather in 2019 is going to go down in history for mostly the wrong reasons. Winter lasted too long and then the summer wasn’t hot enough and ended too soon. Fall was cool and ...