Mild fall weather has left Manitoba’s (and North Dakota’s) waterways far less stable than they look, and the consequences have been heartbreaking. RCMP are urging residents to stay off the ice after two men drowned in separate incidents over the weekend near[...]
Section: Outdoor Recreation
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Watch: How To Clean Pheasants!
For many North Dakota hunters, the work doesn’t end when the pheasant hits the ground—it continues with proper handling, identification, and care once the bird is in hand. A new instructional segment from the North Dakota Game and Fish Department walks hunters[...]
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Turtle Mountain tribe to hold coyote hunt from November-December
Coyote numbers are climbing on the Turtle Mountain Reservation, and tribal wildlife officials say the impact on young deer and upland birds is becoming hard to ignore. Now the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians is turning to a month-long incentive hunt,[...]
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A Day in the Fall with a Game Warden – NDGF – 11-17-2025
As hunting season fills western North Dakota’s fields, game wardens like Zach Shukart are logging long days alongside the growing number of hunters heading outdoors. Most are following the rules, he says, but a few familiar violations still show up each year—from[...]
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The Importance Of Safe Deer Hunting
No deer is worth risking your life or someone else’s. Each year, firearm incidents can be prevented by following a few essential safety rules. First and foremost, always treat every firearm as if it’s loaded. Never point a gun at anything you[...]
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Why People in Sweden Do Nature Right
Sweden’s relationship with the outdoors isn’t built on conquering peaks or chasing records — it’s woven into daily life. That contrast hits home for an American writer who spent a month recovering there and discovered a culture shaped by centuries of open[...]
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Fewer Licenses, New Questions: A Guide to North Dakota’s 2025 Deer Season
North Dakota’s first 2025 deer season opened on Aug. 29 at noon and runs through Jan. 4, 2026. For many hunters, the “real deer season” is the gun/rifle season, which runs from Nov. 7 to Nov. 23. This year, 42,300 licenses were[...]
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After Hunting Success, How to Care for Wild Game
If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably found yourself standing over a tailgate in November with cold fingers, a pocketknife that could use sharpening, and a few regrets. Whether it’s a whitetail buck from the Sheyenne River breaks, a Badlands muley, or[...]
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Game and Fish encourages North Dakota hunters to have deer tested for CWD
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2025 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease from select units in the northwestern portion of the state. Samples will be tested from deer taken[...]
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Watch: Salmon Spawning 2025
Every fall, the waters below Garrison Dam come alive with the shimmer of salmon returning for one final chapter. North Dakota Game and Fish biologists, working with the Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, gather thousands of fish to collect and fertilize more[...]
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Watch: 2025 Deer Season Preview
Deer season returns to North Dakota Friday, November 7th, carrying with it equal parts anticipation and adjustment. The Game and Fish Department is taking a cautious approach this year, issuing fewer licenses as deer herds continue to recover from harsh winters, habitat[...]
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Dokken: New nonprofit aims to use the arts as a model to engage people in conservation
A new nonprofit is taking flight along the Central Flyway, blending art and ecology to reconnect people with the prairies. Founded by Park River native Josh Anderson and artist Austen Camille, the Flyway Foundation hopes to “restore and re-story” rural landscapes through[...]
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Federal lands need the public’s help, retired National Park ranger says
MEDORA, N.D. – Public lands advocate Walt Dabney joined a group of North Dakota conservationists in the Badlands on Sunday to see how federal funding cuts are affecting public lands in the state — and how members of the public are stepping[...]
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Fall Fish Reproduction Surveys 2025
North Dakota’s fall fish surveys don’t make flashy headlines, but they quietly shape the future of fishing across the state. Fisheries biologists spent recent weeks studying this year’s young fish to see which lakes produced strong natural reproduction and where stocking efforts[...]
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Helping to get kids hooked on hunting?
Across North Dakota and elsewhere, there are kids fishing, Take a Kid Hunting, and volunteer organizations to help keep the spirit of hunting and fishing alive. From 2011–16, we lost 2.2 million hunters nationwide amidst population increases. But don’t put on blinders[...]
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CWD discovered in new northeast Wyoming elk unit
Wyoming wildlife officials have confirmed another case of chronic wasting disease — a deadly illness that affects elk, deer, and moose — this time in elk hunt area 116 near the Black Hills. The discovery expands the footprint of a disease that’s[...]