Going back to my beginning with the Game and Fish Department as a game warden, the common questions surrounding deer season haven’t changed that much. Neither have the answers. Which says a lot about North Dakota’s deer hunting heritage. The 60,000-plus hunters are passionate about ...

The National Park Service might have crowned their winner for Fat Bear Week, but the Roosevelt Park Zoo is still in the process of making sure our bears have the bulk needed to carry them through the winter. Sandy, Judy, and Goldie are beefing up in preparation for nature’s naptime. Did ...

There’s never a shortage of experts and predictions for fall football. New coaches and players are analyzed, armchair quarterbacks provide expert analysis of who will advance to the playoffs and Super Bowl even before the season kicks off. Different than fall football forecasts are fall ...

To loosely translate from Norwegian to English: fri = free, lufts = air’s, liv = life The English equivalent= Outdoor Life North Dakota is rich in the variety of birds that spend the entire year here, visit on a seasonal basis, or just use the state as a flyway on their way to other ...

I played a part on the Game and Fish Department’s chronic wasting disease task force and out of everything I learned, what stuck with me most, is how much I’d forgotten. Which is why review of rules, regulations and restrictions is so important for all of us. North Dakota’s archery deer ...

Hunters born 35 years ago or more have long enjoyed the opportunity the North Dakota Game and Fish Department Private Land Open To Sportsmen has provided. Hard to believe this program began back in 1997, and hunters who were around 10 years old may remember paging through the paper map guide ...