NDG&F Dept. Release North Dakota’s early Canada goose season dates are set, with bag limits and licensing requirements the same as last year. Opening day is Aug. 15 in all three zones. Closing dates are Sept. 7 in the Missouri River zone, Sept. 15 in the western zone and Sept. 22 in the eastern zone….

SUPER SUMMER.  Another perfect summer day – warm temps, light breezes and plenty of sun – will set up today, giving you ample opportunity to take it all in.  If you’re looking forward to fall, we’ve got that too as the NDG&F posts dates for the upcoming hunting seasons.  With food plots and a forecast…

BIG HITS!  These late summer days are setting up nicely for any outdoor activity!  Light winds, warm temperatures and tons of fun are in the forecast straight through the weekend.  We’ve got more on fall hunting seasons opening up plus how fish hatcheries have coped with Covid-19 and word from an ongoing battle for fisheries…

SOLID. A fantastic week is before you!  Get out there and sample the height of summer with some fishing or dog training.  We cover what’s to come along with what makes these “dog days” and more changes in the wings for SD’s pheasant hunting in our Outdoors Roundup. Featured Photo:  ON WATCH.  A young pheasant…

MODERATION.  A cooldown settles over the region as recent warm temps give way to a cooler stretch, in the low 80s.  We cover what the recent rains have meant in terms of the drought and wildlife recruitment along with some changes on the conservation organization front and get a few tips for new smallie baits…

By Nick Simonson   While better reserved for a time closer to Halloween, with recent reports of successful cross-breeding between paddlefish and sturgeon meant to sustain a European caviar industry in decline due to the overharvest of the source sturgeon species, the “sturddlefish” as it’s known, is just one aquatic oddball in a list of…

NDG&F Dept. Release North Dakota’s 2020 pronghorn hunting season is set, with 1,790 licenses available in 15 open units. Bruce Stillings, big game management supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said license numbers and open units are up from last year, when the department allocated 1,330 licenses and had 12 open units….

STILL, WARM. Today will start out calm before a shift comes mid-afternoon with temps rising in to the low 90s, but tomorrow will be cooler. We’ve got news on ND pronghorn, where to go to set up for salmon and a look at an act to help reclaim coal mines for wildlife in today’s Outdoors…

By Nick Simonson   The trail camera season is upon us.  Sweaty afternoons of hopping from camera to camera now in the heat of midsummer can pay off with dozens, if not hundreds, of pictures of velvet antlered bucks that will get the heart pumping when autumn rolls around and their summer covering has been…

FREAKY FRIDAY.  We’ve got details on a genetically modified fish that’s a combination of two aquatic dinosaurs, along with the new record number of fingerlings stocked in ND this season.  Additionally, we eye a change in the weather in today’s Outdoors Roundup. Featured Photo:  BACKLIT.  A doe forages in a maturing wheat field as the…

By Nick Simonson   There are few hunters that I envy.  Content with the options I have close to home for the limited species I pursue each fall with the time I can muster, I enjoy the success and adventures of my friends and relish hearing their stories from far off places or lucky tag…

CELEBRATE!  The Great American Outdoors Act passed congress and heads to the White House for signature into law, temperatures are warming up again into summerlike levels and some awesome shoots are set for this final weekend of July. We’ve got the info on those topics and more in today’s Outdoors Roundup.   Featured Photo:  CHICKED. …