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Game and Fish offers wildlife food plot seed

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is offering free seed for the 2024 growing season to landowners interested in planting wildlife food plots for pheasants. Rather than a traditional corn or sunflower food plot, this seed mix increases plant diversity, including flowering plants from spring through fall, which will attract insects, the major diet component of pheasant chicks. Additionally, the mix will provide needed cover during spring and summer, as well as a winter food source. Other wildlife species will also benefit from this mix. Most Game and Fish food plots are part of ...

North Dakota Outdoors: Life (and death) in North Dakota outdoors

Around here we hope and pray March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. I’m not sure where this saying originated from, but last year it may have been more accurate to say March came in like a lion, stuck around until April and left a mess of death and destruction in its wake. It was brutal for both man and beast. When I hear complaints about deer and pheasant populations, I’m always reminded how rare deer were when the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled through North Dakota and the explorers documented deer just along the rivers, creeks and wooded corridors. At the ...

North Dakota Outdoors: Professional gives outdoor photography tips, tricks

There’s a big difference between doing it and doing it well. I can take outdoor photographs but it’s more the equivalent of beating a drum than “playing” the drums. Everyone has a camera on their mobile device but taking a picture and true photography are not one in the same. Trust ...

Game and Fish advises early fish house removal

While the deadline for removing permanent fish houses from North Dakota lakes is March 15, the state Game and Fish Department is urging anglers to consider removing their houses early in areas of the state where ice conditions are deteriorating. Given the current long-range weather forecast predicting temperatures well above normal, coupled with a marginal ice pack in areas of the state, removing a fish house can be difficult or dangerous. It’s important to check ice thickness, especially this time of year. Ice conditions can vary from region to region, between lakes in the same ...

FOR THE TREES: Keeping an eye out for emerald ash borer

You may have heard that emerald ash borer (aka EAB) is knocking on North Dakota’s doorstep. Forestry partners across North Dakota have been on the lookout for this invasive insect for over a decade, so having discovered it in a few boulevard trees in a Moorhead, Minnesota, neighborhood ...

Spring turkey drawing held

The 2024 spring wild turkey lottery has been held and more than 1,000 licenses remain in 11 units, according to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Remaining licenses are issued on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 8 a.m. Central time on Wednesday. Hunters are allowed two licenses for the spring season. Licenses remain in unit 03, Benson and Ramsey counties and portions of Pierce County; unit 06, Bowman County; unit 13, Dunn County; unit 19, Grant and Sioux counties and portions of Morton County; unit 25, McHenry County and portions of Pierce and Ward counties; ...