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North Dakota soon will have new record bighorn sheep. I first got wind of a possible new state record on social media, and Brett Wiedmann, big game management biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department in Dickinson, N.D., confirmed the news Wednesday. One of the state’s eight licensed bighorn sheep hunters took the...
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The State Game and Fish Department is allocating eight bighorn sheep licenses for the 2016 hunting season, based on data collected from a recently completed summer population survey. Two licenses are available in Unit B1, two in B3 and three in B4. In addition, one license as authorized under North Dakota Century Code was auctioned...
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Results from this summer’s bighorn sheep survey indicate North Dakota’s bighorn population has increased from last year, despite the ongoing presence of pneumonia. North Dakota Game and Fish Department big game biologist Brett Wiedmann said the July-August survey showed a minimum of 304 bighorn sheep, an increase of 6 percent from 2014. Results revealed 87...
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