March 5, 2012

2012 Season Opening Dates, Calendar of Events for North Dakota

Year – Around Seasons: Badger, fox, and coyote firearms, traps, archery, and pursue with hounds. Beaver and raccoon firearms, traps, archery, underwater cable device, and pursue with hounds (raccoons only). For more information on seasons see our hunting, fishing, and trapping regulations at http://gf.nd.gov/regulations/index.html#regs March 2012 10: spring crow season opens 10: hunter ed instructor […]

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Despite Decline of Smelt, Fishing on the Missouri River System Should be Good

Hydroacoustic surveys conducted by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department and South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks last July showed exceptional smelt populations in Lakes Sakakawea and Oahe. However, record releases from Garrison and Oahe dams resulted in substantial losses of smelt from the reservoirs during the later stages of summer. Dave Fryda, Missouri

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North Dakota Spring Turkey Drawing Held, Licenses Remain

National, National Hunting / Site Staff

The 2012 spring wild turkey lottery has been held and more than 700 licenses remain in nine units. The governor’s proclamation allows a maximum of two licenses, and hunters who did not apply in the first drawing are also eligible. Licenses remain in unit 03, Benson and Ramsey counties and a portion of Pierce County;

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Remaining North Dakota Deer Samples Negative for CWD

National, National Hunting / Site Staff

The remaining North Dakota deer samples tested for chronic wasting disease are negative, according to Dr. Dan Grove, wildlife veterinarian for the State Game and Fish Department. A mule deer doe taken last fall in western Grant County during opening weekend of the deer gun season had tested positive for CWD. In all, more than

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North Dakota Bighorn Sheep License to be Auctioned

National, National Hunting / Site Staff

The Midwest Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation will auction a North Dakota bighorn sheep license at its annual fundraiser and banquet March 17 in Bloomington, Minn. North Dakota has auctioned a bighorn sheep license each year since 1986 to fund sheep projects in the state, raising more than $890,000. Last year’s license sold for

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Earn-a-Buck (times two) proposal doesn’t go over well in hunting community

Hunting, Opinion / Site Staff

Remember that old TV commercial where the cracked egg going into a frying pan was used as an analogy for a “brain on drugs?” Well, my little brain has been in a similar pan long enough trying to analyze the northern Illinois deer herd and the effect sharpshooting is having on it that I think

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Listen! Do You Smell Something?

Hunting, Opinion / Site Staff

Let me start by saying that I’m not the sort of fellow who sees the whole world through crosshairs, and I’m certainly not in the habit of trying to saw small creatures in half with a chainsaw – at least not on purpose. So when the unmistakable odor of skunk came flooding out of the

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Crossbow movement takes shape

Hunting, Opinion / Site Staff

It’s no secret that I’m an ardent advocate for the crossbow in New York. I’ve used these tools for more than two decades and see them for what they truly are – a fun and effective way to hunt … with limitations. As the crossbow fever starts to spread across the Empire State, the effort

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Idaho's annual Fish and Game fur auction set for March 31

National / Site Staff

Idaho Fish and Game will auction furs, hides, antlers, traps and miscellaneous hunting and fishing equipment on Saturday, March 31, at the Southwest Region office, 3101 S. Powerline Road, Nampa. Anyone interested may view the items beginning at 8 a.m., with the auction beginning promptly at 10 a.m. Auction items include furs, whole carcasses, antlers,

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Remaining North Dakota Deer Samples Negative for CWD

North Dakota Bighorn Sheep License to be Auctioned

Earn-a-Buck (times two) proposal doesn’t go over well in hunting community

Listen! Do You Smell Something?

Crossbow movement takes shape

Idaho's annual Fish and Game fur auction set for March 31

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