{"id":121445,"date":"2017-05-12T14:25:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121445"},"modified":"2017-05-12T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:25:31","slug":"fall-deer-licenses-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121445","title":{"rendered":"Fall deer licenses increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-98330\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer1-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The number of licenses being issued for North Dakota\u2019s 2017\u00a0 fall deer hunt is increasing for a second straight year, after seven years of declines from a record high.<\/p>\n<p>The 54,500 licenses approved by the Game and Fish Department are 26 percent higher than the recent low in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>State Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says the rise corresponds with the rebounding of the state\u2019s deer population from several harsh winters and a recent oil boom.<\/p>\n<p>But habitat loss is still a concern. Williams says it\u2019s likely the days of licenses in excess of 100,000 are over as long as prime grassland remains converted to crop production.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 deer gun season opens at noon Nov. 10 and runs through Nov. 26. The deadline to apply for a license is June 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 The number of licenses being issued for North Dakota\u2019s 2017\u00a0 fall deer hunt is increasing for a second straight year, after seven years of declines from a record high. The 54,500 licenses approved by the Game and Fish Department are 26 percent higher than the recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121446,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445\/revisions\/121446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}