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Outdoors

ND opens Coyote Catalog to connect hunters, landowners

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department and North Dakota Department of Agriculture are again opening the Coyote Catalog, a statewide effort designed to connect hunters and trappers with landowners dealing with coyotes in their areas. Landowners can sign up online with the Department of ...

Special allocation lottery application deadline Jan. 1

Nonprofit organizations eligible to receive big game hunting licenses in 2025 must have the application submitted to the North Dakota Game and Fish Department no later than Jan. 1. North Dakota state law provides direction for the Game and Fish director to allocate big game hunting licenses ...

Hunters should be aware of ice conditions

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department cautions hunters to be wary of ice conditions. In some parts of the state, there are smaller waters that show the appearance of safe ice. Hunters should be cautious of walking on frozen stock ponds, sloughs, creeks and rivers. Ice can form ...

Late season hunting dates scheduled

The statewide duck and white-fronted goose seasons closed Dec. 1. However, duck hunting in the high plains unit reopens Saturday, Dec. 7, and continues through Sunday, Dec. 29. In addition, the season for Canada geese closes Monday, Dec. 16, in the eastern zone, Saturday, Dec. 21. in the ...

North Dakota Outdoors: Great outdoors successes lead to fine dining

I spend a lot of time talking about the outdoors and one of the more recent conversations connected with old timers eating everything “but the squeal” from a pig to acknowledge how our generations couldn’t afford to waste anything consumed as food. It was a generation and time through the ...