2009 Season Opening Dates
& Calendar of Events 

November 2009

1: Daylight Savings Time ends - Set clocks back 1 hour
2: Woodcock season closes
6: Deer gun season opens
6: Any elk extended season (Units E3, E4) opens
7: Bobcat hunting or trapping opens
15: Sandhill cranes unit 1 season closes
20: Moose regular season (Units M5, M6) opens
21: Beaver and raccoon cable devices on land season opens
21: Mink, muskrat, and weasel cable device seasons open
21: Mink and muskrat hunting seasons open
21: Bobcat cable devices opens
21: Red fox, gray fox, coyote and badger cable devices opens
22: Deer gun season closes
27: Deer muzzleloader season opens
27: Elk regular season (Unit E1) opens

December 2009

1: Darkhouse spearfishing season opens
6: Snipe season closes
13: Deer muzzleloader season closes
13: Elk regular season (Unit E1) closes
13: Moose regular season (Units M5, M6) closes
31: Elk regular season (Unit E2) closes
31: Antlerless elk season (Units E3, E4) closes
31: Elk regular season (Unit E5) closes
31: Any elk extended season (Units E3, E4) closes

January 2010

3: Ruffed grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, Hungarian partridge, pheasant, tree squirrel seasons close
3: Deer bow season closes
4: Cable device (snare) season open on state wildlife management areas and federal waterfowl production areas
10: Fall turkey season closes

February 2010

19-21: Becoming an Outdoors-Woman winter workshop at Lake Metigoshe near Bottineau

March 2010

13: Spring crow season opens
14: Cable device (snare) season closes on state wildlife management areas and federal waterfowl production areas
14: Mink and weasel trapping and cable device seasons close
14: Mink and weasel hunting seasons close
14: Muskrat trapping and cable device seasons close
14: Bobcat hunting or trapping and cable device seasons close
14: Fox, gray fox, coyote and badger cable device seasons closes
31: Mountain lion hunting zone 1season closes (unless the quota of 8 lions is reached at an earlier date, which automatically season closes the season)
31: Mountain lion hunting zone 2 season closes
31: Red fox, gray fox, coyote and badger hunting or trapping closes (open year-round from April 1 – March 31)
31: Beaver and raccoon hunting, trapping and underwater cable device seasons close (open year-round from April 1 - March 31)

April 2010

1: Body gripping (Conibear) traps and water sets season opens on state wildlife management areas (open year-round - from April 1 - March 31)
1: Beaver and raccoon hunting, trapping and underwater cable device seasons open (open year-round from April 1 - March 31)
1: Red fox, gray fox, coyote and badger hunting or trapping opens (open year-round from April 1 – March 31)
25: Spring crow season closes

May 2010

9: Beaver and raccoon cable devices on land season closes
9: Muskrat hunting season closes

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