NORTH DAKOTA — North Dakota has issued 54,500 deer gun licenses in anticipation for the 2017 deer season. The state has seen an uptick in licenses since 2015 after sliding in 2007. Jeb Williams is the wildlife division chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. He says the prospects for hunting are decent all around this year….
MINNESOTA — Minnesota hunters registered about the same number of deer during the first two days of the season as last year. The DNR says of the nearly 71,00 deer registered, 57 percent were bucks compared with 67 percent during the first weekend of the hunt last year. The agency predicts about 200,000 deer will be taken during this…
ISANTI COUNTY, Minn. — Deer hunting season is almost upon us and that means more encounters with deer on the roads. The season started early for one sheriff’s deputy in Isanti County when he struck a deer while responding to a call over the weekend. He had his lights and sirens on when the deer popped out of the ditch….
POCATELLO, Idaho — A North Dakota man is hurt and another person is dead after a motorcycle crash in Idaho. David Smart, 30, of Minot and 29-year-old Alexandria Porterfield of California were thrown from their motorcycle after hitting a deer near Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve. Porterfield, who was wearing a helmet, died at the scene….
Two motorcyclists were injured after one was hit by a deer. Three motorcycles were traveling on I-94 between Jamestown and Bismarck Saturday afternoon when a deer hit one of the bikes east of Steele, North Dakota. Sixty-year-old Lyle Herman, of Mandan, was thrown from his motorcycle and landed in the ditch. Twenty-seven-year-old Christof Paul, of Bismarck, laid his motorcycle to…
NORTH DAKOTA — Two-thirds of North Dakota deer hunters had success in bagging an animal last season. The state Game and Fish Department made 49,000 deer gun licenses available last year. Officials say 44,140 deer hunters took to the field, taking about 29,300 deer. Hunter success for white-tailed bucks was 72 percent and for white-tailed does 60 percent. A record…
Two deer taken from southwestern North Dakota have tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The state Game and Fish Department says the mule deer doe and mule deer buck were taken during the 2016 gun season. Since 2009, a total of nine deer from that part of the state have tested positive for CWD. After last fall’s hunt, more…
