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 ...

"Until we either, one, get into winter, or two ... said Ryan Melin, North Dakota Forest Service fire management officer, during the press conference in Watford City. "We know that we're probably ...

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.

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 ...

Prairie Forest Products doesn't do anything with the tree roots. A typical shelterbelt in eastern North Dakota produces 40 ... wood left to sell this winter. Some unsold logs remain, but the ...

Regardless of what the calendar says, North Dakota's current winter began during the days leading up to the opener of last fall's deer season. Now, it's the backside of January, and it's colder ...

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 ...