Category Archives: Outdoors Live
Did you know? Minnesota deer and hunting facts
Adult female white-tailed deer weigh about 145 pounds, and males weigh about 170 pounds. A whitetail's home range is about 1 square mile. The biggest white-tailed deer recorded in Minnesota was a 500-...
Oct 31, 2019
Hunters Use Caution on Roadways
With wet conditions abating enough to allow many North Dakota producers to start or continue row crop harvest, the State Game and Fish Department reminds hunters to avoid parking along roadways or fie...
Oct 30, 2019
Wild game-from the field to the fork!
Wild fish and game is a common, much anticipated course to many a North Dakota meal. But if you've ever tried a piece of freezer burned fish, or taken a bite of a sour piece of jerky you may hesitate ...
Oct 29, 2019
Inaugural youth deer season leads to record number of youth licenses sold
Nearly 5,700 young deer hunters harvested a deer during the DNR's first statewide youth season, Oct. 17-20. The tally represents a 77 percent increase from the 2018 youth deer season when the hunt was...
Oct 28, 2019
CWD Surveillance Continues
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will continue its Hunter-Harvested Surveillance program during the 2019 hunting season by sampling deer for chronic wasting disease from units in more than ha...
Oct 28, 2019
CWD Detected in McKenzie County
Two mule deer taken in September have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, including one taken during the archery season from deer gun unit 4B in McKenzie County, where CWD had not previously ...
Oct 22, 2019
Update on ANS
Following discovery of zebra mussels in North Dakota's Lake Ashtabula in May, the good news is that over the course of the summer and early fall, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's searches f...
Oct 22, 2019
DNR certifies new catch-and-release state record muskie
An angler on Lake Vermilion caught and released Minnesota's new state record muskellunge, a 57 1/4 inch fish that he called a "true giant." The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources certified the ...
Oct 21, 2019
Fall Fish Survey Completed
North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists have completed fall reproduction surveys and the future looks promising, especially compared to a year ago when many waters were struggling. ...
Oct 21, 2019
Fall Mule Deer Survey Begins
The state Game and Fish Department's annual fall aerial mule deer survey is set to begin Oct. 14 in western North Dakota. Weather permitting, the survey takes a week to complete. During the survey per...
Oct 15, 2019
