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The time to report a possible poaching violation is not the next time you see a game warden. Complaining about a situation you witnessed during deer or any other hunting season at the cafe, gas station, watering hole or at the high school game doesn't help. The best advice I can give is if you see a possible game and fish violation, report it via the Report All Poachers hotline or local law enforcement. There's no shortage of situations, scenarios and stories. The bottom line is if you see...
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that most roads and trails closed to hunting if posted on both sides. *Check all PLOTS signage before driving into fields with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Nov. 20: Deer gun season closes. *Nov. 20: Zone 1 Early Season mountain lion season closes. *Nov. 25: Deer muzzleloader season opens. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, Nov. 8: 1,449.21 feet above mean sea level (MSL)....
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 say's a lot about North Dakota's deer hunting heritage. The 60,000-plus hunters are passionate about the time-honored tradition and want to know the rules and regulations. It's understood with a relatively short 16 ½-day season, a refresher is warranted each year. What has changed over the years? The...
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that most roads and trails closed to hunting if posted on both sides. *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Nov. 7: Fall crow season closes. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, Nov. 1: 1,449.28 feet above mean sea level (MSL). *Stump Lake elevation: 1,449.33... Full story
Deer hunters who can’t find their deer license should contact the North Dakota Game and Fish Department soon to secure their tag before the season opens. The Game and Fish Department must be contacted by phone at 701-328-6335, or email [email protected], to authorize the online purchase of a replacement tag. Printable applications are not available. The deer gun season opens Friday, Nov. 4 at 12 noon Central time....
North Dakota Game and Fish Department enforcement personnel issue a reminder that a permit is required before taking possession of a dead deer found near a road or in a field. Only shed antlers can be possessed without a permit. Permits to possess are free and available from game wardens and local law enforcement offices. In addition, hunters are reminded to properly dispose of dead deer. Carcass waste cannot be left on public property, including roadways, ditches or wildlife management areas....
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2022 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease from select units in the western portion of the state, and unit 2B in the east. Samples will be tested from deer taken from units 1, 2B, 3A1, 3A2, 3A3, 3A4, 3B1, 3B2, 3C, 3D1, 3D2, 3E1, 3E2, 3F1, 3F2, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E and 4F. CWD is a slow-moving brain disease of deer, moose and elk that can cause population-level impacts under high infection rates. Hunters are...
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is taking orders for its North Dakota OUTDOORS calendar, the source for all hunting season and application dates for 2023. Along with color photographs of North Dakota’s wildlife and outstanding scenery, it also includes sunrise-sunset times and moon phases. To order online, visit the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov., or send $3 for each, plus $1 postage, to: Calendar, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, 100 N. Bismarck Expressway, Bismarck, ND 58501-5095. Be sure to include a three-line return a...
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that most roads and trails closed to hunting if posted on both sides. *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Nov. 3: Elk unit E6 closes. *Nov. 4: Deer gun season opens. *Nov. 7: Fall crow season closes. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, Oct. 25: 1,449.3...
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 hunting season previews, where biologists and scientists relate the latest findings. But just because a population is up or down doesn't necessarily parallel "success" in the field. So, no matter what you may or...
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that most roads and trails closed to hunting if posted on both sides. *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Nov. 3: Elk unit E6 closes. *Nov. 4: Deer gun season opens. *Nov. 7: Fall crow season closes. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, Oct. 25: 1,449.3...
Outdoor notes: *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the 2022 hunting season. *Oct. 28: James Valley Pheasants Forever fund-raising evening, Club 1883, Jamestown, 5 p.m. *Oct. 30: Moose season closes....
Outdoor notes: *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the 2022 hunting season. *Oct. 28: James Valley Pheasants Forever fundraising evening, Club 1883, Jamestown, 5 p.m. *Oct. 30: Moose season closes....
Outdoor notes: *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the 2022 hunting season. *Oct. 22: Mink, muskrat, & weasel trapping seasons open. *Oct. 23: Pronghorn season closes. *Oct. 28: James Valley Pheasants... Full story
Hunting small game, waterfowl, furbearers or big game by nonresidents is prohibited by state law on Private Land Open To Sportsmen acreage and state wildlife management areas from Oct. 8-14, the first seven days of the pheasant season. However, nonresidents can hunt on PLOTS land they own during that week. Permission from the landowner is always required for motorized vehicle access on PLOTS and leaving equipment on PLOTS overnight....
Outdoor notes: *Check all PLOTS signage before driving on with vehicles when waterfowl hunting to ensure landowner allows vehicles. *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *Waterfowl hunters reminded to follow ANS regulations when hunting from boats. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the 2022 hunting season. *Oct. 13: Devils Lake Ducks Unlimited banquet, KC Club, 5:30 p.m. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, Oct. 4: 1,449.6 feet... Full story
Last fall saw the first year of electronic posting (eposting) in North Dakota. For most, it's like the first time you shoot a rifle or call in a goose, it gets easier with time. Even so, there's also a benefit to going back over the basics. It's difficult to address each question and scenario, so I suggest taking time to understand the regulations and reading up on the Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov, or consulting your local Game and Fish office. I prefer to use my existing signs...
North Dakota Game and Fish Department officials are encouraging hunters to be respectful and cautious as farmers and ranchers are busy with field work this time of year. Hunters should pull to the side of the road or find an approach when meeting combines, grain trucks or tractors pulling equipment. Hunters should avoid parking along roadways or field approaches where vehicles could block travel by farm machinery, pick up trash and empty shells, and not clean game in the road ditch or approach....
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s Private Land Open To Sportsmen Guide for 2022 is now available online at the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov. In addition, the free printed PLOTS guides will be available in late August at most license vendors and other locations throughout the state. The guide will feature about 800,000 PLOTS acres. Because the guide is printed in mid-August, some PLOTS tracts highlighted in the guide may have been removed from the program since the time of printing. There will also be some PLOTS tracts where the h...
Outdoor notes: *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *PLOTS guide now available online at the Game & Fish Dept. website with printed editions also available at vendors. *Anglers reminded to follow ANS regulations, including draining live wells and removing plugs. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the 2022 hunting season. *Sept. 16: Youth deer season opens. *Sept. 17: Youth waterfowl season opens. *Sept. 24: Resident waterfowl sea...
Outdoor notes: *Hunters are reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *PLOTS guide now available online at the Game & Fish Dept. website with printed editions also available at vendors. *Anglers reminded to follow ANS regulations, including draining live wells and removing plugs. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the upcoming 2022 hunting season. *Sept. 16: Youth deer season opens. *Sept. 17: Youth waterfowl season opens. *Sept. 24: Resident... Full story
Outdoor notes: *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *PLOTS guide now available online at the Game & Fish Dept. website with printed editions also available at vendors. *Anglers reminded to follow ANS regulations, including draining live wells and removing plugs. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the upcoming 2022 hunting season. *Blue-green algae updates, N.D. Dept. of Environmental Quality: No warnings listed for area lakes...
Outdoor notes: *Hunters are reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *PLOTS guide now available online at the Game & Fish Dept. website with printed editions also available at vendors. *Anglers are reminded to follow ANS regulations, including draining live wells and removing plugs. *Applications such as Onyx now have updated electronic posting information for the upcoming 2022 hunting season. *Blue-green algae updates, N.D. Dept. of Environmental Quality: No warnings listed for area l...
Outdoor notes: *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *First-come, first-served leftover deer licenses for antlerless either species available in units 3A1 and 3F2 and antlerless whitetails in 3F1, 3F2, & 4F. Go to the N.D. Game & Fish Dept. website, (gf.nd.gov) for information and application. *PLOTS guide now available online at the Game & Fish Dept. website. Printed editions available in late August. *Anglers reminded to follow ANS regulations, including draining live...
Outdoor notes: *Hunters reminded to put identification on tree stands and blinds when set up on N.D. Game & Fish Dept. WMAs. *First-come, first-served leftover deer licenses for antlerless either species available in units 3A1 and 3F2 and antlerless whitetails in 3F1, 3F2, & 4F. Go to the N.D. Game & Fish Dept. website, (gf.nd.gov) for information and application. *PLOTS guide now available online at the Game & Fish Dept. website. Printed editions available in late August. *Anglers reminded to follow ANS regulations, including draining live...
