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Game Warden Training

Department game wardens recently completed annual training that included skills like emergency vehicle operations, defensive tactics and de-escalation. Learn more in this North Dakota Outdoors.

Warden checking hunting licenses in the field

Game Warden Testing Announcement

The Department has scheduled an examination to select district game warden candidates. The test will be July 16, 2021. The application deadline is July 14.

Poached deer with antlers removed

Poaching Case Resolution

A months-long investigation into the poaching of about 10, and possibly more, whitetail bucks in Barnes County beginning in 2019 ended in the conviction of four men.

Dead elk

Request for Tips in Elk Poaching Case

Game and Fish officials are looking for information in connection to an elk poaching case near Keene. Two bull elk were shot and left in a field near the intersection of 40th St. NW and 109th Ave. NW, north of Keene.