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N.D. Game & Fish News
Participation needed in hunter harvest surveys While North Dakota’s 2022 hunting seasons have come and gone, hunter success, or lack thereof, still matters to wildlife managers. The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has conducted hunter...
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Dakota Recreation Report: January 30, 2023
Outdoor notes: *Be mindful of parking when accessing area lakes; not blocking roadways or snow removal operations. *Reminder that it’s illegal to chase, harass, or pursue any wildlife species with...
Dakota Recreation Report: January 23, 2023
Outdoor notes: *Be mindful of parking when accessing area lakes; not blocking roadways or snow removal operations. *Reminder that it’s illegal to chase, harass, or pursue any wildlife species...
Dakota Recreation Report: Jan. 16, 2023
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that it’s illegal to chase, harass, or pursue any wildlife species with motorized vehicle. *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water,...
Dakota Recreation Report: Jan. 9, 2023
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that it’s illegal to chase, harass, or pursue any wildlife species with motorized vehicle. *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water,...
North Dakota Outdoors: The reality of winter and wildlife
When the phone rings or the inbox pings, it's reminiscent of unwrapping a Christmas present. I literally have no idea what's behind the rings and pings. It's one part of my job that truly keeps me on...
Our Outdoors: A year of lessons
The lessons learned coming out of the drought in 2022, where a wet spring spurred regrowth of upland grasses and the thickening of the cattail sloughs which remained on the landscape, are many....
Dakota Recreation Report: Jan. 3, 2023
Outdoor notes: *Reminder that it’s illegal to chase, harass, or pursue any wildlife species with motorized vehicle. *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water,...
North Dakota Outdoors: Life and death of wild in winter
I quit blaming Mother Nature years ago for nasty weather and started pointing the finger at Old Man Winter. Not that it mattered but it seemed fair, even though we have no control over the weather....
Dakota Recreation Report: December 26, 2022
Outdoor notes: *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water, pressure ridges, and springs. Check conditions as you go along on the ice and don’t move around at night....
N.D. Game and Fish News
2023-25 Watercraft registrations North Dakota watercraft owners should note that 2023 is the first year of a new three-year registration period. Watercraft registrations must be renewed online by visiting My Account at the North Dakota Game...
Dakota Recreation Report: December 19, 2022
Outdoor notes: *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water, pressure ridges, and springs. Check conditions as you go along on the ice and don’t move around at night....
North Dakota Game & Fish News: Dec. 12, 2022
Darkhouse spearfishing registration Individuals required to possess a valid fishing license (age 16 and older) to darkhouse spearfish must first register online at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department website, gf.nd.gov. Northern pike and...
Dakota Recreation Report: Dec. 12, 2022
Outdoor notes: *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water, pressure ridges, and springs. Check conditions as you go along on the ice and don’t move around at night....
Our Outdoors: Turn it Up for Late Season Pheasants
Late season pheasant hunting is by far my favorite. The throngs of people have disappeared from the landscape as colder, snowier, and windier conditions generally keep the fair weather uplanders insid...
The Peluso Report: Building Up
We have the perfect ice building weather starting this week. With that and so many out on the ice already finding success the ice fishing season is in full swing. For me, especially never knowing...
Four Gifts for the Youth Trapshooter
While the spring trap shooting season – be it organized through the North Dakota State High School Clay Target League ("ND CTL" at ndclaytarget.com) – or via a local shooting sports club, may be...
Dakota Recreation Report: December 5, 2022
Outdoor notes: *Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water, pressure ridges, and springs. Check conditions as you go along on the ice and don’t move around at night....
North Dakota Game & Fish News: Dec. 5, 2022
Fishing tournaments require 30-day notice Organizers planning fishing tournaments, including ice fishing contests this winter, must submit an application, along with fishing tournament regulations, to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department at...
Our Outdoors: New Ceilings
While shooting the breeze in between rounds of trap this fall, one shooter explained his use of livescope sonar under the ice last season to pick off schools of perch on a favorite water we both...
The Peluso Report: Almost There
People are venturing out on the small ponds and a few areas up here on and around Devils Lake already. The ice isn't great, but we are seeing 3 to 6 inches of it. The further north we go, the more...
Invest in Ice Cleats
I remember the early morning mental image as clear as the ringing in my head that followed. Walking over to pick up the auger from the last in my line of ice holes, I was suddenly staring at my boots...
Dakota Recreation Report: Nov. 28, 2022
Outdoor notes: *It is illegal to chase, harass, and pursue any wildlife species, including coyotes, with snowmobile or tracked vehicles. *Reminder that most roads and trails closed to hunting if...
Our Outdoors: Sudden Shift
It's strange how one day in November, you can be staring out at a beige and brown field, watching deer move back and forth, going about their annual chase in an effort to beget the next generation;...
