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By John Bradley
The 2021 Legislature was a busy one for issues affecting wildlife, habitat and access for hunters, anglers, and outdoor enthusiasts. As we have in years past, the North Dakota Wildlife Federation (NDWF) played a crucial role at the Capitol, monitoring key issues and speaking up for those issues and our outdoor heritage. NDWF worked closely with lawmakers of both parties to ensure that the North Dakota Game & Fish Department (NDG&F) budget saw an increase and that key conservation and access priorities got the staffing and funding needed to manage our public trust resources. We fought against any effort from legislators that tried to micromanage the NDG&F or impede on scientific wildlife management.
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Mike Saccone
Apr 28, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. A broad coalition of 133 conservation, farmer and rancher, sportsmen, and wildlife groups urged the leadership of the U.S. House and U.S. Senate agriculture committees in a letter to ensure the forthcoming infrastructure package includes robust funding for Farm Bill conservation programs and farmer assistance. They specifically urged Congress to double the investment in Farm Bill conservation programs and to ramp up conservation technical assistance funding.
“Increasing baseline funding for the Farm Bill conservation programs and ramping up conservation technical assistance on the ground will enable landowners to mitigate the impacts of drought and flood, improve habitat, improve soil health and long-term food secur
Landowners increase reward for elk poachers
April 8, 2021
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KEENE, N.D. (AP) A group of anonymous landowners near Keene have added more than $1,000 to a reward fund for information about poachers who killed two bull elk in the area.
The Bismarck Tribune reported Thursday the eight landowners have contributed $1,600 to the fund. The North Dakota Wildlife Federation had already put up $2,000.
Authorities believe the elk were killed on Feb. 17.
No meat was taken from either animal but one of the bulls’ heads was missing.
North Dakota hunters can kill only one elk in their lifetime. Shooting an elk out of season is a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail and a $3,000 fine.
That being said, I cringed last week when I saw a bill had been introduced in the North Dakota Senate that would have allowed any certified hunter education instructor who had taught in the past calendar year to receive a license to hunt any legal deer without having to go through the lottery. In addition, any hunter education instructor who had taught each of the preceding five years would be issued one bighorn sheep, elk or moose license.
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Often referred to as “the big three,” bighorn sheep, elk and moose in North Dakota all are once-in-a-lifetime hunting licenses issued by lottery, with demand far exceeding available supply. As an example, nearly 17,000 North Dakota residents applied for one of the five bighorn sheep licenses available in 2020; a sixth tag fetched $83,000 last March in an auction sponsored by the Midwest Chapter of the Wild Sheep Foundation.