BISMARCK – The North Dakota Game and Fish Department’s annual spring aerial mule deer survey is set to begin in early April in the western part of the state. Weather permitting, the survey takes about ...

BISMARCK – North Dakota deer hunters had a 55% success rate during the 2024 deer gun season – unchanged from 2023 – the Game and Fish Department said Monday, March 31. According to a Game and Fish ...

May 7—BISMARCK — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is offering 42,300 licenses for the 2025 deer gun season, down 7,800 from last year. In addition, muzzleloader licenses decreased by 150 and ...

More than 42,000 hunters in North Dakota took about 23,000 deer during the 2024 gun hunting season, according to a post-season survey by the state Game and Fish Department. The overall success rate ...

A fall survey indicates another good year of mule deer fawn production in the western North Dakota Badlands. The aerial survey conducted by the state Game and Fish Department is more good news for a ...

I’ve always been a big woods whitetail hunter. I grew up in New England, where deer hunting meant tracking, still hunting, and roving through endless miles of mixed hardwoods and thick pine forests ...