October 13, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
And while North Dakota produces more ducks than pheasants, I’d guess if you asked every hunter their favorite quarry, ducks might finish behind deer and pheasants though a lot of people are avid participants in all three seasons. Continue Reading
October 6, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Thanks to a mild winter and early spring, pheasant numbers have rebounded across North Dakota and neighboring states
Pheasant hunters have plenty of reasons to be optimistic this fall in North Dakota, where summer roadside surveys showed a 59 percent increase from 2011, according to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Continue Reading
October 6, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Most hunters realize pheasants are not native and were introduced to North America more than 100 years ago, but they’ve been here long enough that they seem like a natural part of the landscape. Continue Reading
September 29, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
With a little more than 66,000 licenses available, this fall, North Dakota will have thousands of would-be deer hunters who won’t have a tag. Continue Reading
September 15, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
Unless something drastic changes between now and next weekend, waterfowl hunters will be in for one of the driest falls in recent history when the regular season for ducks and geese opens Saturday in North Dakota and Minnesota. Continue Reading
August 25, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota’s fall waterfowl season will begin Sept. 22 for residents and Sept. 29 for nonresidents, with a six-duck limit and a change that allows hunters to take six scaup, compared with two last year. Continue Reading
August 18, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
It’s not conclusive, but a combination of poor health and old age appear to be the main factors in the death of a whitetail doe that gave birth to quadruplet fawns this past spring near Minto, N.D. The fawns, the first set of whitetail quadruplets ever documented in North Dakota, all died, as well.
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August 11, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
As reported across the state earlier this week, North Dakota’s fall duck flight is expected to have twice as many birds as last year. Results from the annual mid-July waterfowl production survey showed the duck index was up 16 percent from 2011 and 112 percent higher than the long-term average. Continue Reading
July 28, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
North Dakota’s estimated Canada goose population this spring stood at a whopping 415,000 birds. That’s more than twice the 162,000 Canada geese tallied in the spring of 2000 and five times higher than the state Game and Fish Department’s management goal of 80,000 birds. Continue Reading
July 21, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has completed its first deer gun lottery, and more than 5,800 antlerless tags remain in select units. Continue Reading
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