Outdoor notes:
*Ice is never completely safe. Avoid areas with vegetation, moving water, pressure ridges and springs. Check conditions as you go along on the ice.
*Use caution with dogs when hunting around frozen wetlands for cuts from ice, breaking through, etc.
*North Dakota darkhouse fishing season opens at ice-over.
*Dec. 7: High Plains duck, merganser, and coot seasons end.
*Dec. 15: Muzzlelo...