The purpose of the spring conservation season is to reduce light goose (snow goose) populations during spring as the birds migrate north to their nesting grounds.
To get an event in the Outdoors Calendar, contact Brad Dokken at (701) 780-1148, (800) 477-6572 ext. 1148 or by email at bdokken@gfherald.com. Deadline is 5 p.m. Wednesdays.
Based on DNR creel surveys, anglers landed an estimated 15,000 crappies this winter on Upper Red, compared with about 900 crappies, on average, over the previous 10 winters or more.
Elk, moose and bighorn sheep applications are available on the Game and Fish website at gf.nd.gov. The application deadline for the “Big Three” once-in-a-lifetime licenses is March 29.
HB 1151, which the House passed 76-18, would strip the Game and Fish Department of its authority to ban hunting big game over bait as a way to mitigate potential spread of chronic wasting disease.
