This information is current as of Tuesday, March 30. There are flocks of snow geese still being seen and migrating through the Sand Lake area, but it appears that the main concentration of snow geese has already moved into North Dakota. There was only a small flock of about 8000 on the refuge yesterday. The [...]
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Mar 31
Mar 30
deer season summary
North Dakota deer hunters took nearly 75,000 deer during the 2009 deer gun hunting season. Overall hunter success was 59 percent, down from 70 percent in 2008. Bill Jensen, big game biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the deer population was down from previous years because of the severe winter of [...]
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indepth on stocking
The fun thing about a question–from another biologist, angler, reporters and even neighbors is often times I don’t have the full answer. I’m not a fisheries biologist, wildlife biologist or game warden (but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express…) in fact I relate quickly when asked, that I’m not a practicing biologist. I’m [...]
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spring snow goose migration update
March 29 The peak of the migration appears to have hit North Dakota. Mild temperatures over the weekend and the availability of sheet water have allowed geese to be observed throughout North Dakota. Several thousand are as far north as Highway 2 in the Devils Lake and Grand Forks areas. Many more are still many [...]
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Quad Cities bird report
Spent the afternoon in the Quad Cities…Buffalo, Enderlin, Kindred Casselton…saw an array of birds. Swans, ducks, snow geese, Canada geese….some good numbers of snow geese migrating in and through the Alice WPA…Maple River is still high, lots of sheet water around the area and roads/bridges closed. For the most part I stayed on the pave….no [...]
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weekend Outdoors Live radio
Saturday around 7PM after UND hockey and again Sunday morning at 7AM we’ll welcome the Chief Chef and matre’d of the Outdoors Live kitchen It’s UNCLE LYNN. He’s cooking up our spring snow geese and a whole new way. We’ll bring in Jeff Long the Game and Fish Dept Education Coordinator with the newest spot [...]
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podcast from Outdoors Live on News & Views
Here’s a link this Friday podcast from News and Views with Joel Heitkamp show and Doug Leier. You can click this link to listen at Outdoors Live But don’t forget to listen each Friday at 10:35 on 550 KFYR in Bismarck ,AM 790 KFGO Fargo,and AM 910 KCJB in Minot area http://www.outdoorslive.podcastpeople.com http://twitter.com/dougleier http://facebook.com/dougleier
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podcast from Outdoors Live on News & Views
Here’s a link this Friday podcast from News and Views with Joel Heitkamp show and Doug Leier. You can click this link to listen at Outdoors Live But don’t forget to listen each Friday at 10:35 on 550 KFYR in Bismarck ,AM 790 KFGO Fargo,and AM 910 KCJB in Minot area http://www.outdoorslive.podcastpeople.com http://twitter.com/dougleier http://facebook.com/dougleier
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snow goose update
This information is current as of Thursday, March 25. It appears that the main migration of snow geese may have already pushed into North Dakota. This past Monday and Tuesday, many birds were moving through and into the area, but migration activity slowed down on Wednesday and Thursday. As of Thursday, there were still about [...]
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Missouri River boat ramp status
Missouri River/Lake Oahe Boat Ramp Status Location Status Ft. Rice (main) unusable Ft. Rice (low-water) underwater Hazelton usable Maclean Bottoms usable Graner Bottoms usable Kimball Bottoms usable Little Heart Bottoms usable Sibley Park unusable Fox Island usable Grant Marsh Bridge usable Kniefel Landing unusable Hoges Island unusable Steckel Landing usable Sanger (Cross Ranch) unusable Washburn [...]
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