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ByMike Anderson

Published:May. 6, 2023 at 8:30 PM PDT|Updated:17 hours ago

BISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s 2023 deer season is set. 53,400 deer gun licenses were made available to hunters in this year’s deer lottery, 10,800 fewer than last year.

“We have a pretty good reduction in deer licenses, probably mainly because the winter, and also a little bit to do with the condition of deer as they came into winter. Obviously, the better reserves they have, the better they’ll last through a winter, but this winter was six months, essentially of winter, and that doesn’t happen to us very often,” said Casey Anderson, North Dakota Game and Fish wildlife division chief.

Whitetail deer populations were slowly heading in the right direction after the winters of 2009, ‘10, ‘11, but the…