Early ice conditions can be especially dicey during freeze-ups like this year, when brief cold snaps are followed by warm-ups, and calm days are followed by wind, which of course can wreak havoc on early ice. This time of year, ice can be here one day and gone tomorrow.
A North Dakota man who was supervising his daughter during Minnesota’s recent youth deer season voluntarily had the deer she shot southwest of Climax tested, paying for the private test as a routine matter of course. When preliminary results came back positive, he contacted the DNR.
According to a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Wisconsin farm where CWD was detected sold nearly 400 deer to 40 farms in seven states during the past five years, including Minnesota and North Dakota.
In his new position as director of the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, Jeb Williams oversees a state agency with 165 employees and a budget of $92.3 million for the 2021-23 biennium.
Observations from the annual summer survey suggest the 2021 fall flight will to be down 36% from last year and similar to the 1970, 1979 and 1994 fall flights.
Seven of the eight prairie grouse observed at one mating grounds site this spring were hybrids, with traits of both prairie chickens and more dominant sharp-tailed grouse.
Sheepshead – also known as freshwater drum – sampled from the Manitoba side of the Red River were up to 60 years old, while similar-size drum sampled in Nebraska were only 8 to 10 years old.
A drastic decline in areas for ducks to establish pair territories and for hens to find high quality forage for egg production doesn’t bode well for whether ducks will decide to nest.
The two state record walleyes came within about 30 miles of each other in a three-year span, a remarkable turn of events considering the previous state record had stood since 1959, when Blair Chapman of Minnewaukan, N.D., tallied a 15-pound, 12-ounce walleye from Wood Lake in Benson County.
