The Game and Fish Department allocated five bighorn sheep licenses for the 2021 hunting season, one fewer than last year. One license was issued in unit B1, one in B3 and two in B4. In addition, one license, as authorized under North Dakota Century Code, was auctioned in May by the Midwest ...

Friday, Sept. 17 at noon Central Time signals the start of a nine-and-a-half-day deer hunting season for licensed youth hunters. Residents who are 11, 12 or 13 in 2021 can hunt statewide for antlerless white-tailed deer. Resident deer gun hunters who are 14 or 15 in 2021 can hunt ...

North Dakota’s two-day youth waterfowl weekend, and the special veteran and active military personnel waterfowl season is set for Sept. 18-19. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has a Virtual Duck Hunting Mentor webpage with all the basics, including license requirements, ...

North Dakota’s sandhill crane season opens Sept. 18 and runs through Nov. 14. Limits are three daily and nine in possession in unit 1 (west of U.S. Highway 281), and two daily and six in possession in unit 2 (east of U.S. Highway 281). Shooting hours are a half-hour before sunrise to 2 ...

Hunters can help in the effort to manage upland game birds in North Dakota by collecting feathers from harvested birds and sending in wing envelopes. Birds included in the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s upland game wing survey, which has been in practice for decades, are ...

Here is the North Dakota Game and Fish Department Whopper Club entries, date & weight for August: Lake Darling black bullhead: Ethan Blanton, Minot AFB, Aug. 6, 2 lbs., 0 oz. Lake Sakakawea smallmouth bass: Virginia Schiele, Minot, Aug. 6, 4 lbs., 4 oz. Levi Rime, ...