{"id":98295,"date":"2016-04-06T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98295"},"modified":"2016-04-07T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:22:13","slug":"hunters-had-high-deer-kill-percentage-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=98295","title":{"rendered":"Hunters had high deer kill percentage, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deer1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98330\"><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=\"deer1\" 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\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The percentage of hunters who successfully killed a deer in North Dakota last fall was the highest in five years.<\/p>\n<p>That might increase the likelihood of more licenses being made available this year after a dismal allocation in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Game and Fish Department data show 68 percent of deer hunters bagged an animal last fall, up from 60 percent in 2014 and a significant rise from the all-time low of 51 percent in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>North Dakota&#8217;s deer population has declined with a drop in habitat. The state last year issued 43,275 licenses, the lowest in nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Game and Fish will send its recommendation for 2016 licenses to the governor for approval later this month. State Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says some hunting units might see a license increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The percentage of hunters who successfully killed a deer in North Dakota last fall was the highest in five years. That might increase the likelihood of more licenses being made available this year after a dismal allocation in 2015. Game and Fish Department data show 68 [&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-98295","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\/98295","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=98295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98331,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98295\/revisions\/98331"}],"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=98295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}