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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 ...

NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOORS: Looking at fall pheasant, duck numbers

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 ...

Western Grebes at McKenzie Slough

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 ...

Taking a closer look at ND chronic wasting disease regulations

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 ...

NORTH DAKOTA OUTDOORS: Learning more about North Dakota PLOTs program

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 ...

Plant restoration in the Badlands

To loosely translate from Norwegian to English: fri = free, lufts = air’s, liv = life The English equivalent= Outdoor Life I was embarrassed!I was co-leader of a tour group consisting of archaeology and history enthusiasts from twelve states. One of our stops on the tour was the South ...