{"id":14448,"date":"2013-03-11T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2013-03-11T16:55:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:55:09","slug":"n-d-moose-elk-licenses-cut-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=14448","title":{"rendered":"N.D. Moose, Elk Licenses Cut Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3279\" title=\"GameFish\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GameFish.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota wildlife officials are continuing to cut back on moose and elk licenses.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Game and Fish Department officials say 111 moose licenses are available this year, 32 fewer than 2012. The number of elk licenses is being trimmed from 301 to 261.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Four bighorn sheep licenses will be issued this year, same as a year ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Game and Fish Department officials say the drop in moose tags is due in part to a downward population trend in the northeastern part of the state.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The cutback in the number of elk licenses continues a reduction program that began in 2010 in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 North Dakota has auctioned one bighorn license each year since 1986 to raise money for sheep management, and will do so again this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; North Dakota wildlife officials are continuing to cut back on moose and elk licenses. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 State Game and Fish Department officials say 111 moose licenses are available this year, 32 fewer than 2012. The number of elk licenses is being trimmed from 301 to 261. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14448","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\/14448","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=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14450,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions\/14450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}