Category Archives: Outdoors Live

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's 2024 bighorn sheep survey, completed by recounting lambs in March, revealed a minimum of 350 bighorn sheep in the grasslands of western North Dakota, down 4...

Weekly CO report District 1 - Baudette area Last updated: 2025-03-31 CO Ben Huener (Roseau) monitored tip-up northern pike fishing, patrolled area wildlife management areas, and checked coyote hunters...

Elk, moose and bighorn sheep applications must be submitted online before midnight, March 26.   Applicants can apply by visiting My Account at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's website,...

By Doug Leier On the calendar spring began March 20. Does it feel like it? There's something about spring in North Dakota that's different. The way it stretches out like an old neighbor coming over to...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is encouraging homeowners to remove birdfeeders now and check their property for food sources that could attract bears. Most of the female bears with cubs...

District 1 - Baudette area Last updated: 2025-03-24 CO Ben Huener (Roseau) helped instruct at the waterfowl enforcement school, which was held at Whitewater State Park and attended by graduated of the...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is prohibiting open burning on public property it manages south of Bismarck and Mandan, to reduce the potential for wildfires in a heavily wooded recreation a...

The Minnesota DNR completed its annual aerial elk population survey over the winter in northwest Minnesota, in Kittson, Marshall, Roseau and Beltrami counties where elk are found in three distinct her...

Who doesn't love the #monarch butterfly? We know they need some help! U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reopens Public Comment Period for Monarch Butterfly Endangered Species Act Listing Proposal The U.S...

By Doug Leier Like many growing up hunting, fishing and trapping, my memories of our North Dakota game wardens were my first exposure to natural resource law enforcement. In LaMoure, it was Harold Bel...