North Dakota’s windbreaks, which primarily were planted in the 1960s to shelter people, livestock and crops, are showing signs of age, and a high priority of the state’s forest service is to ...

TIOGA, N.D. — A North Dakota Forest Service program could help residents ... Windbreaks provide protection for farmsteads, particularly in the winter, Olson said. Winds become strong in the ...

Every year in February, North Dakota Game and Fish Department fisheries biologists check lakes for low dissolved oxygen levels and potential winterkill. While deep snow and a long winter resulted ...

Nearly 1,400 fires have burned through over 100,000 acres across the state since January, according to the North Dakota Department of Emergency Services and the North Dakota Forest Service.

"We need to prepare for the long haul," North Dakota Forest Service Fire Manager Ryan Melin said during a press conference in Watford City. "The reality is that we could be dealing with these ...

Millions of ducks are down South, fattening up for their annual spring migration to the Canadian boreal forest. When they arrive, they’ll find that a North Dakota ... in the winter, when crews ...