If you’ve never hunted crane, you dont know what your missing…seriously…they are one of….if not the toughest birds I’ve ever hunted. Brad Dokken from the GF Herald, takes us inside the crane hunt this week.

and not a geographical feature: A few facts about sandhill cranes: – Sandhill cranes can live to be 20 years old and don’t reach breeding maturity until about age 4. – Few sandhill cranes breed in North Dakota, although a birdwatcher near Granville, N.D., reportedly observed a pair of sandhills with two young this past [...]

On September 21, the NRA held its first "Celebration of American Values" conference, providing NRA members the opportunity to hear some of our nation’s most important leaders address Second Amendment issues. Hundreds attended and the event was broadcast nationally by C-SPAN. The most anticipated speakers, however, were a number of 2008 Presidential candidates. The two-day [...]

09/28/07 Everyone who has been spending time out hunting or fishing has been raving about the incredible number of pheasants they are seeing.  I have had several people ask me about multiple hatches and the truth of the matter is that pheasants only raise one brood.  When you see lots of young birds with very [...]

hamburger steakblack coffee…starbucks is nice, but Farmer brothers is fine toVault zerooutdoor college footballthe last trip to the DQ for the year what? no hunting? yep…..this is the non-resident opener. did you see the boat parade on I94? no thanks….it’ll be a circus this weekend….that’s not what hunting is about.

A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. Authorities decided that nothing could be done [...]

Tomorrow is National Public Lands Day, the nation’s largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. It began in 1994 with three federal agencies and 700 volunteers. In 2006,100,000 volunteers built trails and bridges, planted trees and plants, and removed trash and invasive plants. National forests cover 193 million acres [...]

MIGRATION SLOW AS NONRESIDENTS JOIN N.D. WATERFOWLERS Nonresident waterfowl hunters will join their North Dakota counterparts inthe field on Saturday, but bird numbers aren’t much improved from lastweek, and neither are wetland conditions. The U.S. Fish and WildlifeService reports the waterfowl migration is moving very slowly, and potholescontinue to dry up. Southeastern North Dakota continues [...]

You’ll find this central Dakota outdoors report, right here and also in the hard copy at the Jamestown Sun, either way you can’t go wrong. Dakota Recreation Report Sept. 28, 2007 Patricia Stockdill Fishing tournaments: Sunday: Missouri River, Rifle Range. Fishing: Southeast District Game Wardens: Little activity on area lakes. Coal Mine Lake, Anamoose: Closed [...]

This week’s North Dakota Game and Fish Department webcast, Outdoors Online, is now online at http://www.gf.nd.gov/multimedia/ndoutdoors/webcast-new.html The program features outreach biologist Nathaniel Umphrey discussing a new grant program designed to assist private groups with efforts to encourage new hunters.