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Outdoor notes: *Do not release any fish caught from water 25 feet and deeper because their swim bladder likely won’t allow them to survive when coming up from deep water. *Watchable Wildlife photo contest underway with Oct. 2 deadline. Contact N.D. Game & Fish Dept. conservation biologist, Patrick Isakson, [email protected]) for details. *Remember to bring insect repellent when outdoors. *Blue-green algae advisory listed for Jamestown Reservoir and Spiritwood, Coal Mine, and Buffalo lakes. P...
While my college transcript might indicate otherwise, I've always enjoyed statistics. That's about the most positive spin I can put on my appreciation for numbers while giving credit to the confusion some figures can portray. Case in point: If you took the 2019 pheasant hunting statistics at face value, you might think the pheasant numbers were down. Our post-season survey showed about 50,000 pheasant hunters harvested 256,800 roosters (down 25%) in 2019, compared to 59,400 hunters and 342,600...
Governor Doug Burgum has proclaimed July as Lakes Appreciation Month in North Dakota. When thinking of North Dakota, images of the Badlands, wheat and cornfields, and even oil wells will most likely pop into your mind before lakes. However, you may be surprised to learn that North Dakota has about 4,500 lakes. Of that number, 450 lakes have public access and some degree of oversight. North Dakota lakes are desirable destinations for boating, fishing, camping and swimming. Lake festivities in the summer and fishing derbies in both summer and...
On Friday, July 17, the SNR Black Sox took on the Carrington Redbirds in a heated rivalry game. The first two matchups went to the Black Sox, including a dominant performance with 16 runs in the exhibition game when they faced off in New Rockford. This time it was no different as the Black Sox dominated all game long. In the first and second innings, both teams were at a standstill as neither was able to get the edge over the other. In the third inning is when the Black Sox struck first, as...
On July 21, the New Rockford Independent team faced off against Jamestown at Jack Brown Stadium. Initially the game was scheduled for July 20, but was cancelled midway through the second inning due to intense rainfall. During these innings, the Black Sox had gotten off to a great start with three runs by Kaden Jensen, Alex Harrison and Koven Walford. On Tuesday, July 21 they resumed the game where they left off at the bottom of the second inning. The new day seemed to give Jamestown new life as...
New Rockford is host to the District 4 Baseball Tournament this week. Coming in as the #2 seed, the Black Sox take on Nelson County in Game 3 on Monday, July 27....
The North Dakota High School Activities Association (NDHSAA) Board of Directors, operating on ND Smart Restart guidance and ND Department of Public Instruction (DPI) K-12 Smart Restart guidelines, met Thursday, July 16 and unanimously voted to proceed with all fall sports and activities as scheduled. Opening dates for practice in locally recognized sports are as follows: football and cross country Aug. 10 and volleyball Aug. 17. School boards for member schools, along with their local public health units, will determine if its school(s) w...
The trail camera season is upon us. Sweaty afternoons of hopping from camera to camera now in the heat of midsummer can pay off with dozens, if not hundreds, of pictures of velvet antlered bucks that will get the heart pumping when autumn rolls around and their summer covering has been shed. Utilizing attractants, such as mineral licks, where legal and prudent, are a great way of getting deer to pause for a time in front of the lens and help provide better photos for judging rack size and...
While better reserved for a time closer to Halloween, with recent reports of successful cross-breeding between paddlefish and sturgeon meant to sustain a European caviar industry in decline due to the overharvest of the source sturgeon species, the "sturddlefish" as it's known, is just one aquatic oddball in a list of man-made mixes of two fish species. What follows are the tales – perhaps cautionary ones – of recent history's strange hybrids and genetic tweaks made by man, some of which hav...