Fewer Turkey Licenses This Year

| 6/15/2012

North Dakota`s Game and Fish Department is making 4,145 licenses available for the upcoming turkey hunting season, a drop of 10 percent from 2011. Upland Game Management Supervisor Stan Kohn says the turkey population has declined since 2008. He says even though last winter was mild, officials don`t know what turkey production will be like.

He says if it is "exceptionally good," an additional 1,300 licenses might be made available in specific hunting units.

An experimental hunting season will continue at the federal Northern Great Plains Research Lab at Mandan. Up to 30 licenses will be available. An experimental turkey bow hunting season also will continue in the city limits of Bismarck to help reduce a growing population of turkeys in residential areas. Up to 25 licenses will be available.

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