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Protecting animals just got harder

It’s that time of year now when we find ourselves looking for those nicer, warmer days where temperatures rise above freezing and the winds calm. Most of the keepers have transitioned from their shorts to long pants, jackets, and gloves as they head out to care for the animals. The number of guests decline, but the work only increases for them as the animals require a greater amount of attention. By all measures it seems winter has begun. Caring for animals during the throes of winter is much more taxing on the staff than the warmer months. Most of the collection has temperature ...

The Life and Travels of an Omar

Friluftsliv To loosely translate from Norwegian to English: fri = free, lufts = air’s, liv = life The English equivalent= Outdoor Life It’s hard to get too excited about a rock. Hard, that is, until you learn a little about its travels to North Dakota and its unique, characteristic ...

NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOORS: Stay safe while hunting this fall

In any given year about 100,000 individuals put in for the regular deer gun lottery. Safe to say, even if you don’t deer hunt, there’s someone in your house, at work or next door that either will be deer hunting or wishes they were. When it comes to deer hunting safety (or pheasants, ...

Salmon spawn completed

Fisheries crews completed their annual salmon spawning operation on the Missouri River System, collecting more than 1.8 million eggs. About 500,000 went to South Dakota to meet their egg collection goal. North Dakota Game and Fish Department Missouri River System fisheries biologist Russ Kinzler said crews collected enough eggs to stock 400,000 smolts planned for Lake Sakakawea in 2023. About 80% of the eggs were collected from Lake Sakakawea and the remainder from the Missouri River below Garrison Dam. Average size of female salmon was 5 pounds, which is about 2.5 pounds smaller ...

Zoo News: It’s Just the Bear Necessities

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 you know that bears aren’t true hibernators because their body temperatures don’t drop during the winter. According to the National Park Service, bears technically don’t hibernate but go into a state of dormancy called torpor. Every year, hundreds of thousands of bears in the United States slow ...