North Dakota’s spring light goose conservation order opened Feb. 15. It continues through May 11. Residents must have a 2024-25 (valid through March 31) or 2025-26 (required April 1) combination license or a small game, and general game and habitat license. Resident youth younger than age ...
As winter tightens its grip on North Dakota, the landscape transforms into a vast, frozen tundra. Snow blankets the plains, rivers freeze solid, and the air becomes crisp with a bite that chills the bones. For many of us, it can be easy to view the season as a time to retreat indoors, to ...
Remember last fall? For most of us it was filled with sunshine, warmth and appreciation. When November deer season opened, the extended autumn continued with many areas of the state enjoying temperatures around 45 degrees, and 50 was common. Then just before Thanksgiving the change of sun and ...
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is monitoring a mortality event involving Canada geese along the Missouri River and Nelson Lake in Oliver County. Testing of carcasses has indicated that highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is the likely cause. Carcasses have been reported where ...
Landowners interested in posting private land electronically for the 2025-26 hunting season is available on the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website. Landowners who have a profile on the Game and Fish Department’s mobile application have an option this year to communicate with ...
The next guide and outfitter written examination is Saturday, April 5, at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department office in Bismarck. Preregistration is required no later than Friday, March 28, by calling the department’s enforcement office at 328-6604. In addition to passing a ...