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Pheasant Crowing Count Results 2025

The number of roosters heard during the Department’s 2025 spring pheasant crowing count survey was up 6% statewide from last year. Learn more in this week's NDO News.


North Dakota Outdoors Weekly Show

2025 Pheasant Crowing Counts

Spring pheasant crowing count surveys are used by biologists to determine an index of roosters at the beginning of their breeding season. Learn more in this week's NDO Webcast.

North Dakota Outdoors Podcast

Guests: John Paulson and Phil Mastrangelo, both happily retired from USDA Wildlife Services

In this episode of NDO Podcast, we visit with Department volunteers, John Paulson and Phil Mastrangelo, both happily retired from USDA Wildlife Services, about the upcoming fur harvester education course, the benefits of furbearer hunting and trapping and the sweet smell of skunk essence. 

North Dakota Game and Fish Blogs

Behind the Badge

There are always those who don't think the rules apply to them. Read this week's Behind the Badge by warden Riley Gerding.

The Drift