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The New Rockford-Sheyenne track and field team traveled to the southwest corner of North Dakota to Bowman to compete in the Bowman County Invite on Tuesday, April 11. Among the 32 teams to compete at the meet, both the girls' and boys' NR-S teams excelled in their events. The girls' team tied with Kidder County for ninth place with a total of 28 points. The boys' team tied with Beulah for 12th place with 16 points. The Rockets' lone first place finish came from Kelsie Belquist in the 300-meter...
Despite mother nature's best efforts, it appears the SNR Black Sox will have a spring baseball season. According to the Sox' new head coach, Dave Skogen, this spring's baseball season will eventually get started, albeit somewhat late. Though it's not ready just yet, the baseball field in New Rockford seems likely to be among the first ready for baseball, and could be one of the region's only usable fields throughout this spring. "Everything is kind of in a holding pattern," explained Skogen....
I've always appreciated the complexities of nature, including the connection of individual fish and wildlife species to food, water, space and where they call home. If you hunt upland game, the importance of grassland habitat and pollinators is mutual to game and hunters. Much of the information the North Dakota Game and Fish Department provides on these wildlife/habitat connections relates to species that are hunted, fished and trapped, because hunters, anglers and trappers provide the bulk of...
Outdoor notes: *Paddlefish tags now available online from the N.D. Game & Fish Dept., (gf.nd.gov). *New fishing licenses are now required. *April 17: N.D. Game & Fish Dept. public advisory meeting, Lake Region State College Heritage Hall, 7 p.m. *April 24: N.D. Game & Fish Dept. public advisory meeting, Harvey City Hall, 7 p.m. *April 24: N.D. Game & Fish Dept. public advisory meeting, Alerus Center, Grand Forks, 7 p.m. Fishing: *Devils Lake elevation, April 11: 1,449.58 feet above mean sea leve...
A full 30 inches of snow drift lined the banks of the small creek just down the road from the cabin in drifts that clung to and overhung its edges. Under the heating sun of mid-morning, however, they had already begun to add to it from the white extensions dripping meltwater, making perfect circles on the creek’s flowing surface with each droplet. Hoping to grab a photo of the half dozen just-returned mallard ducks that had been milling about in its waters the day before, or the two swans t...
Advisory board meetings announced The North Dakota Game and Fish Department Advisory Board will host public meetings this spring at seven locations across the state. Districts 3 and 4 will have a shared meeting. In addition, the district 7 meeting in Bismarck will be streamed live on the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov. Some information is to be determined. As information becomes finalized, it will be published on the department’s website. These public meetings, held each spring and fall, provide citizens with an opportunity to discuss fish a...
"What better way to celebrate the end of winter than enjoying sweet, homemade maple syrup?" Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don't have lush forests of sugar maples (Acer saccharum) like our neighbors to the east, we do have a naturally occurring relative with the boxelder (Acer negundo), which is sometimes referred to as the Manitoba maple. The...