March 15, 2017
New Law Moves Pheasant Opener
to Oct. 7
A new law passed by the North
Dakota Legislature will result in the State Game and Fish Department to propose
Oct. 7 as opening day of the 2017 pheasant hunting season, one week earlier
than what the department earlier announced.
Senate Bill 2318, signed into
law March 14, requires North Dakota’s pheasant season to open no later than Oct.
12.
Game and Fish Department director
Terry Steinwand said the new law means the pheasant hunting season will no
longer always open on the second Saturday in October, which has been the case
for more than 20 years.
With the regular pheasant
season opening a week earlier, Game and Fish will propose that the youth
pheasant hunting season also open earlier, on Sept. 30 instead of Oct. 7.
In addition, out-of-state
hunters are reminded that state law does not allow nonresidents to hunt on Game
and Fish owned or managed lands during the first week of pheasant season.
Therefore, Private Land Open to Sportsmen acreage and state wildlife management
areas are open to hunting by resident hunters only from Oct. 7-13.
Nonresidents, however, can still hunt those days on other state-owned and
federal lands, or private land.
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