The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is encouraging hunters in Ramsey, Richland and Slope counties this fall to use its online map resources to evaluate electronic posting, a pilot study the state Legislature authorized in 2019.
Private land that is posted electronically for the 2020-21 hunting season is viewable on a computer or smartphone and also can be printed from the Game and Fish website at gf.nd.gov.
Electronic posting offers hunters the benefit of being able to determine a point of contact for the landowner or authorized person who posted the land. The department’s map service app includes the point of contact information.
As always, hunters should be respectful of landowners and be mindful of their daily schedules, as farmers will be busy with fall duties, including harvesting crops, moving cattle and hauling bales.
Hunters using the app will help evaluate electronic posting as an option for landowners to post land into the future. The electronic posting study will conclude with a brief survey. The information collected will help the North Dakota Legislature’s Interim Natural Resources Committee determine the usability of the electronic posting application and provide direction for changes required to existing law.
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A total of 79 landowners in the three counties are participating in the pilot study by electronically posting their land, totaling 268 parcels and 38,600 acres.
More info: gf.nd.gov.
