NDGF Bighorn Sheep Ashley Peterson
Elk, moose and bighorn sheep applications are available online at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s website, gf.nd.gov. The application deadline is March 25.
A total of 1,062 elk licenses are available to hunters this fall, an increase of 102 from last year.
A total of 296 moose licenses are available, which remains the same as last year.
A bighorn sheep hunting season is tentatively scheduled for 2026, depending on the sheep population. The status of the bighorn sheep season will be determined Sept. 1, after summer population surveys.
Bighorn sheep applicants must apply for a license at the same time as moose and elk, but not for a specific unit. Once total licenses are determined for each unit in late summer, the bighorn lottery will be held and successful applicants will be contacted to select a hunting unit.
Because the bighorn sheep application fee is not refundable as per state law, if a bighorn season is not held, applicants would not receive a refund.
Elk, moose and bighorn sheep lottery licenses are issued as once-in-a-lifetime licenses in North Dakota. Hunters who have received a license through the lottery are not eligible to apply for that species again.
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