Category Archives: Outdoors Live
Boaters Reminded to Report Accidents
Regardless of how safe and cautious boaters are on the water, sometimes an accident does happen. If a boating accident involves injury, death or disappearance of a person, or if property damage exceed...
Apr 29, 2019
Game and Fish Pays $658,000 in Property Taxes
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently paid more than $658,000 in taxes to counties in which the department owns or leases land. The 2018 in-lieu-of-tax payments are the same as property t...
Apr 25, 2019
Scholarships Available for Students
The North Dakota Game Wardens Association, Ray Goetz Memorial Fund and Kupper Chevrolet are together sponsoring scholarships for graduating high school seniors or current higher education students, ma...
Apr 23, 2019
Lincoln Angler’s Walleye Breaks Record
Tom Volk's 16-pound, 9-ounce walleye caught on April 21 broke a record that was set nearly a year ago, and prior to that had gone untouched for nearly 60 years. The Lincoln angler reeled in the 32 and...
Apr 22, 2019
2018 Deer Season Summarized
A total of 48,717 North Dakota deer hunters took approximately 31,350 deer during the 2018 deer gun hunting season, according to a post-season survey conducted by the state Game and Fish Department. G...
Apr 22, 2019
Moose and Elk Lotteries Held, Bighorn Sheep in September
North Dakota's moose and elk lotteries have been held, and individual results are available by visiting My Account at the state Game and Fish Department's website, gf.nd.gov. A total of 15,516 applica...
Apr 18, 2019
Paddlefish Snagging Season Opens May 1
North Dakota's 2019 paddlefish snagging season opens May 1 and is scheduled to continue through May 21. However, depending on the overall harvest, an early in-season closure may occur with a 24-hour n...
Apr 16, 2019
Nesting bald eagles in North Dakota increasing
The historical plight of bald eagles is told often. At its lowest point, surveys estimated the bald eagle breeding population was once as low as 500 nesting pairs in the lower 48 states. Unregulated t...
Apr 16, 2019
Bighorn Sheep Population Up from Last Year
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's 2018 bighorn sheep survey, completed by recounting lambs in March, revealed a minimum of 283 bighorn sheep in western North Dakota, up 7 percent from 2017 a...
Apr 15, 2019
Game and Fish Sponsors Earth Day Project
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is once again celebrating Earth Day by sponsoring clean-up days on publicly owned or managed lands. With Earth Day recognized April 22, each member of a schoo...
Apr 09, 2019
