Given the low number of bears found in North Dakota, getting a call about a poached bear is unusual...but not unheard of. Read this week's Behind the Badge by warden Shawn Sperling.
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In this week's NDO News, Department Director Jeb Williams takes a look back at 2025 and discusses some of the challenges coming up in 2026.
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In this week's NDO Webcast, hunter education coordinator Brian Schaffer talks about upcoming hunter education classes, how to sign up and what you can expect when taking a class.
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Guests: NDGF Game Warden
In this episode of NDO Podcast we visit with one of our wardens, whose voice is disguised to remain anonymous, about a particularly complex poaching case involving social media, satellite imagery and trail camera time stamps to bust this wannabe hunting influencer, Andy Elliott.