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Game and Fish Offers Wildlife Food Plot Seed
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is once again offering free seed for the 2026 growing season to landowners interested in planting wildlife food plots for pheasants and other wildlife species...
Sports/Outdoors Mar 02, 2026 NDGF Food Plot Seed

#NDGF 2025 CWD Test Results
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department tested 1,224 animals for chronic wasting disease during the 2025 sampling season. Game and Fish confirmed 16 deer tested positive for CWD, all of which were t...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 26, 2026

Insight On A Bounty System
By Doug Leier Every few years the question of whether North Dakota should offer a bounty on coyotes surfaces again. It usually follows a tough fall deer season, a hard, cold, snowy start to winter, or...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 24, 2026 coyote

Minnesota DNR adds new catch-and-release bass season
Anglers can now fish for bass before the traditional May fishing opener The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' fishing regulations for 2026 include a new catch-and-release season that makes fi...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 23, 2026

Minnesota #DNR Conservation Officer Reports February 23, 2026
CO Andrew Goodman (Perham) spent the weekend patrolling snowmobile trails and lakes. A few snowmobilers were out, but trail conditions haven't recovered from the heat wave, despite recent snow. Angler...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 23, 2026 MN DNR Conservation Officer

#NDGF Guide and Outfitter Exam Scheduled
The next guide and outfitter written examination is March 28, 2026 at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department office in Bismarck. Preregistration is required no later than March 20 by call...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 23, 2026

Egg in Minnesota DNR EagleCam nest
An egg has been laid in the nest featured on the DNR EagleCam. An adult has been consistently sitting in the nest, a sign that incubation has begun. Bald eagles begin incubating the first egg as soon ...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 18, 2026

Minnesota light goose harvest opportunity begins Feb. 18
Hunters can help reduce the population of light geese through a federally authorized spring conservation harvest from Feb. 18 through April 30. Light geese are a group of overabundant migratory waterf...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 17, 2026

Minnesota #DNR Conservation Officer Reports
District 1 - Baudette area Last updated: 2026-02-17 CO Ben Huener (Roseau) checked anglers on Lake of the Woods. Fishing has been slow during this past week of warm weather. Violations were mostly ang...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 17, 2026 MN DNR Conservation Officer

#NDGF Spring Light Goose Conservation Order
North Dakota's spring light goose conservation order opens Feb. 21 and continues through May 10. Residents must have a 2025-26 (valid through March 31) or 2026-27 (required April 1) combination licens...
Sports/Outdoors Feb 17, 2026
