Friday, Sept. 19, at noon 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 Sunday, Sept. 28, and the regular deer gun season running from Nov. 7-23. After opening day, hunting hours ...

Introduce a youngster to duck hunting during North Dakota’s two-day youth waterfowl season Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 20-21. In addition, the special veteran and active military personnel waterfowl season is set for the same weekend. Legally licensed resident and nonresident youth waterfowl ...

North Dakota’s sandhill crane season opens Saturday, Sept. 20, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 16. Limits are three daily and nine in possession in unit 1 (west of U.S. Highway 281), and two daily and six in possession in unit 2 (east of U.S. Highway 281). Shooting hours are 30 minutes before ...

The fall wild turkey lottery has been held and more than 1,200 licenses remain in 10 units. Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 8 a.m., all remaining licenses will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis. Hunters are allowed a maximum of five licenses for the fall season. Resident and ...

North Dakota’s roadside surveys conducted in late July and August indicate pheasant numbers are relatively the same as last year, while gray partridge and sharp-tailed grouse numbers were down. Total pheasants observed (91.6 per 100 miles) are down 3% from last year and broods (11.4) per ...

Hunters can help in the effort to manage upland game birds in North Dakota by collecting feathers from harvested birds and sending in wing envelopes. Birds included in the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s upland game wing survey, which has been in practice for decades, are ...