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Tame winter good for wildlife, mixed bag for outdoors enthusiasts As the book on January closes, the winter of 2020-21 is shaping up as a bit of a wimp by North Country standards, both in terms of temperature and snowfall, which remains scarce across the region. Written By: Brad Dokken | × A herd of deer graze in stubble from edible beans west of Park River, N.D., this week. Photo by Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald It’s been a few years since the region saw a winter as tame as this one. That certainly was the trend up until earlier this week, when temperatures...

BISMARCK (AP) -- North Dakota wildlife officials say access to some lakes for ice fishing is becoming an issue because of above-average snow cover. Game and Fish Department Fisheries Chief Greg Power is reminding winter anglers to be mindful of p...

"In North Dakota, accessing some of our winter fisheries has changed. With SnoBears and other tracked vehicles that can go just about anywhere, people are getting to some of these more remote lakes that used to maybe only get pressured seven out of 10 years. The other three years access would be close to zero because of deep snow," said North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries division chief Greg Power. "Now anglers can get to them every year and they are good at what they do. They find fish and they catch fish." The question is whether fish populations can withstand the technological ...

North Dakota Game and Fish Department's fisheries division chief answers questions Written By: Doug Leier | × West Fargo Here is some ice-fishing insight for North Dakota this winter from Greg Power, fisheries division chief for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Q: In terms of fishing activity, how much participation in overall effort is winter ice fishing? Power: It can be substantial. In an open winter, at least in the past, we've seen as much as 25% of our entire annual fishing effort come from the ice fishing season. On a bad winter, historically, it could be as low as 5%. Q: ...

If not, there’s a first time for everything? As we’ve seen since last March when the pandemic began cancelling, rescheduling and turning much of the world upside down, interest and participation in recreating outdoors has been on the rise. Recently, Greg Power, Game and Fish Department fisheries division chief, shared some insight from last year’s spearing survey that showed 27% did so for the first time in winter 2019-20. While there used to be an opening date to signal the start of the darkhouse spearfishing season, that’s no longer the case. You can start spearing whene...