{"id":31647,"date":"2013-11-07T10:29:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=31647"},"modified":"2013-11-07T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T16:29:13","slug":"deer-population-drops-hunting-season-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=31647","title":{"rendered":"Deer Population Drops, Hunting Season Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deercrossing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5469\" alt=\"Deercrossing\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deercrossing-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deercrossing-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deercrossing-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deercrossing.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Nov 7, 2013) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s deer gun hunting season opens at noon Friday, but a dramatic drop in the state&#8217;s deer population in recent years means there will be a lot fewer hunters afield.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state issued only 59,500 licenses this year, the lowest in 30 years. Game and Fish Wildlife Chief Randy Kreil (kryl) says 40,000 hunters tried but failed to get a license.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota issued a record 149,400 licenses just six years ago. But three straight harsh winters beginning in 2008 took a toll on the deer population.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some people question if too many doe tags were issued during the good years. Kreil says that during those years Game and Fish heard &#8220;loud and clear&#8221; from the public that there were too many deer around, leading to the aggressive management.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP Nov 7, 2013) &#8211; North Dakota&#8217;s deer gun hunting season opens at noon Friday, but a dramatic drop in the state&#8217;s deer population in recent years means there will be a lot fewer hunters afield. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state issued only 59,500 licenses this year, the lowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31647","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=31647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31648,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31647\/revisions\/31648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}