{"id":86721,"date":"2015-11-05T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86721"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T16:40:07","slug":"less-deer-gun-licenses-issued-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86721","title":{"rendered":"Less deer-gun licenses issued this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/deer2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-86729\" alt=\"deer2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/deer2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s deer gun season gets underway Friday, but tens of thousands of hunters will be staying home.<\/p>\n<p>The 43,275 deer gun licenses that were made available for this fall\u2019s hunt is the lowest amount in nearly 40 years. That\u2019s due to declining habitat and some recent tough winters.<\/p>\n<p>Game and Fish Department Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says officials \u201chope we\u2019ve bottomed out.\u201d He says that with a mild winter this year, the agency might be able to start increasing deer licenses again next year.<\/p>\n<p>However, he says hunters need to adjust expectations because the days of more than 100,000 licenses are gone.<\/p>\n<p>Williams says the agency\u2019s management strategy for deer has a goal of about 76,000 licenses five years from now, provided winters aren\u2019t too harsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s deer gun season gets underway Friday, but tens of thousands of hunters will be staying home. The 43,275 deer gun licenses that were made available for this fall\u2019s hunt is the lowest amount in nearly 40 years. That\u2019s due to declining habitat and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86721","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=86721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86735,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86721\/revisions\/86735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}