{"id":230252,"date":"2021-07-20T10:15:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230252"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:03:44","slug":"burgum-names-peterson-interim-game-fish-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230252","title":{"rendered":"Burgum names Peterson, interim Game &#038; Fish Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) Gov. Doug Burgum Tuesday appointed ND Game and Fish Dept Deputy Director Scott Peterson to serve as interim director of the department until a new director is named.<\/p>\n<p>Current Game and Fish Director Terry Steinwand is retiring July 31 after more than 15 years as director and nearly 40 years with the department.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson has served as deputy director of Game and Fish since 2014. He joined the department in 1986 as a Garrison Diversion habitat biologist and has also served as a wildlife resource management supervisor and wildlife resource section leader. Peterson earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in wildlife management and zoology from North Dakota State University.<br \/>\nGame and Fish has a two-year budget of approximately $92 million and is authorized for 165 full-time team members.<br \/>\n\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bismarck\u00a0 (CSi) Gov. Doug Burgum Tuesday appointed ND Game and Fish Dept Deputy Director Scott Peterson to serve as interim director of the department until a new director is named. Current Game and Fish Director Terry Steinwand is retiring July 31 after more than 15 years as director and nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230252","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=230252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230271,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230252\/revisions\/230271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}