{"id":157419,"date":"2018-11-08T15:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=157419"},"modified":"2018-11-09T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T14:19:22","slug":"licensed-deer-hunters-set-for-friday-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=157419","title":{"rendered":"Licensed deer hunters set for Friday opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98328\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"line-height: inherit;\">Bismarck \u00a0(AP) \u2014 ND licensed deer hunters are readying for the opening of the state\u2019s deer gun season on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/local\/deer-hunters-ready-to-take-aim\/article_18184808-87e7-52a2-b8cd-cfce756c91aa.html\">Bismarck Tribune<\/a> reports that North Dakota allocated 55,150 deer gun licenses for the roughly 16-day-long season.<\/p>\n<p>Jeb Williams is chief of the state Game and Fish Department\u2019s Wildlife Division. Williams says the department modestly increased licenses but was conservative enough that hunters will likely have a successful season.<\/p>\n<p>He says anecdotal data and field reports suggest deer reproduction was good this year around the Bismarck-Mandan area. He notes that hunting units near Fargo, Bismarck, Minot, Grand Forks, Dickinson and Williston also tend to be popular.<\/p>\n<p>Williams says western North Dakota has seen positive growth and harvests of white-tailed and mule deer, while the east has experienced more challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck \u00a0(AP) \u2014 ND licensed deer hunters are readying for the opening of the state\u2019s deer gun season on Friday. The Bismarck Tribune reports that North Dakota allocated 55,150 deer gun licenses for the roughly 16-day-long season. Jeb Williams is chief of the state Game and Fish Department\u2019s Wildlife Division. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157462,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157419\/revisions\/157462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}