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Northern Celebrations: Think spring, think fishing

Spring means throngs of migrating waterfowl resonating overhead as they return to nest. It’s wildlife awakening from their winter survival mode. It’s green grass and early wildflowers as crocuses and other flowers pop seemingly out of nowhere. And it’s fishing. Finally, it’s open water fishing. To Jason Lee, an avid angler and N.D. Game and […]
by Jonathan Starr
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April 16, 2022

Game and Fish Briefs

Paddlefish Snagging Season Opens May 1 North Dakota’s paddlefish season opens May 1, and tags are only available for purchase online at the state Game and Fish Department’s website, gf.nd.gov, and during normal business hours at Game and Fish offices in Bismarck, Dickinson and Williston. Snaggers buying tags online should plan accordingly and allow for a few days […]
by The Dakotan
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April 11, 2022

Always a Special Place

T.R. National Park-North Unit WATFORD CITY — It is the very definition of a National Park – beauty, majesty, serenity, wilderness. Take your pick. You’ll discover it all, and more, at the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. I’ve never forgotten my first view of the North Unit. I’m guessing I was about six […]
by Kim Fundingsland
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April 10, 2022

Northern Celebrations: Maple sugaring North Dakota style

Maple syrup – thick and deliciously oozing true maple syrup – is probably any pancake lover’s true delight. Home-grown, North Dakota maple syrup isn’t a reality because the maple tree species producing maple syrup don’t grow in the state. But Chad Trautman, Garrison, discovered a passion for a different type of “maple” syrup that North […]
by Jonathan Starr
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April 9, 2022

Dead and Dying Birds

Avian Influenza in North Dakota BISMARCK — The annual spectacle of the spring waterfowl migration is underway in North Dakota, leaving dead and dying birds in its wake. It wasn’t unexpected but is nevertheless receiving close attention. In North Dakota all poultry shows, public sales, and exhibitions have been cancelled due to the danger of […]
by Kim Fundingsland
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April 6, 2022

NDGF Advisory Board

Advisory Board Meetings Announced The North Dakota Game and Fish Department Advisory Board will host public meetings on site this spring at eight locations across the state. In addition, the district 7 meeting in Bismarck will be streamed live on the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov. These public meetings, held each spring and fall, provide […]
by The Dakotan
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April 5, 2022

Sakakawea Forecast Plummets

RIVERDALE — Down again. A lot. That's the latest runoff outlook for the Missouri River Basin and Lake Sakakawea. “It doesn’t look very good, but I don’t think it surprised anyone,” said Scott Gangle, North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries section leader. Gangle was responding to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers April runoff […]
by Kim Fundingsland
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April 5, 2022

On to Nationals for Young Artist

Junior Duck Stamp Winner Chosen in Minot MINOT — The field of entries was narrowed down to five finalists. A difficult choice, to be sure, but in the end the panel of five judges chose a Prisma colored pencil drawing of two mottled ducks in flight as Best of Show in the 2022 North Dakota […]
by Kim Fundingsland
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April 3, 2022

Pembina Gorge Foundation Awarded $2.2M Grant for Improvements at Frost Fire Park

BISMARCK — Governor Doug Burgum today announced that the Pembina Gorge Foundation has been awarded a nearly $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) for a snowmaking infrastructure improvement and expansion project at Frost Fire Park. Burgum sent the EDA a letter last June in support of the grant application for the […]
by The Dakotan
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March 31, 2022

Concern Grows for Dry Conditions Ahead

MINOT — The river that so often has citizens on edge about water overflowing its banks may now be foretelling the opposite. Flows in the Souris River have been so minimal this runoff season that attention is already turning toward the looming possibility of another dry season ahead. The signs are everywhere. Lake Darling, a […]
by Kim Fundingsland
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March 28, 2022
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