2012 Season Opening Dates, Calendar of Events

Year - Around Seasons:

• Badger, fox, and coyote firearms, traps, archery, and pursue with hounds.
• Beaver and raccoon firearms, traps, archery, underwater cable device, and pursue with hounds (raccoons only).

For more information on seasons see our hunting, fishing, and trapping regulations. 

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February 2012

11: hunter ed instructor banquet, Bismarck
11: Becoming an Outdoors-Woman winter workshop, Upper Souris NWR
15: spring turkey application deadline
25: hunter ed instructor workshop, Grand Forks

March 2012

10: spring crow season opens
10: hunter ed instructor workshop, Dickinson
15: deadline to remove permanent fish houses
24: hunter ed instructor workshop, Minot
28: moose, elk and bighorn sheep application deadline
31: hunter ed instructor workshop, Fargo

April 2012

1: 2012-13 fishing license required
14: spring turkey season opens (tentative)

June 2012

2: free fishing day
3: free fishing day
6: deer gun and muzzleloader application deadline

July 2012

5: fall turkey application deadline

August 2012

11: fall crow season opens (tentative)
15: swan application deadline
31: deer bow, mountain lion seasons open (tentative)

September 2012

1: dove season opens (tentative)
8: sharptail, partridge, ruffed grouse and squirrel seasons open (tentative)
14: youth deer opens
15: youth waterfowl and sandhill crane seasons open (tentative)
22: early resident waterfowl season opens (tentative)
29: regular waterfowl season opens (tentative)

October 2012

6: youth pheasant season opens (tentative)
13: pheasant and turkey seasons open (tentative)
27: mink, muskrat and weasel trapping seasons open (tentative)

November 2012

9: deer gun season opens (tentative)
30: muzzleloader deer season opens (tentative)

December 2012

1: darkhouse spearfishing season opens (tentative)

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