North Dakota’s spring light goose conservation order opens Feb. 19 and continues through May 15. Residents must have a 2021-22 (valid through March 31) or 2022-23 (required April 1) combination license; or a small game, and general game and habitat license. Resident youth younger than age ...

The next guide and outfitter written examination is April 2 at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department office in Bismarck. Preregistration is required no later than March 25 by calling the department’s enforcement office at 328-6604. In addition to passing a written exam, ...

Spring turkey applicants are reminded the deadline to submit applications is Wednesday. Applicants can apply online at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. A total of 7,647 wild turkey licenses are available, 635 more than last year. Unit 21 (Hettinger and Adams ...

Landowners interested in posting private land electronically for the 2022-23 hunting season can log into My Account on the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. The deadline for landowners to digitally post land is July 1, which is necessary to produce print material and ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s enforcement division tallied the number of hunting, angling and boating citations for 2021, and failure to carry a license was the number one violation. Game wardens issued more than 2,600 citations last year. Counties with the most violations ...

BOTTINEAU — Donny Haas of Bottineau harvested a male mountain lion north of Lake Upsilon in the Turtle Mountains with a .257-caliber Roberts rifle on Jan. 10. As of Thursday, Haas’s mountain lion was the only one to be taken in hunting Zone 2 this season, which opened on Sept. 3, 2021, and ...