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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ifish4iz" data-source="post: 67057" data-attributes="member: 787">It really boils down to the goal of the ND game and fish and the US Fish and Wildlife service. If the goal is hunter opportunity or to manage the prairie grass populations, then hunting into January would be a viable option. I think they have already answered those questions to some extent by closing the early season a week earlier in the Missouri River zone and giving us that extra week after xmas. I would have to agree with you Trip, that I am also usually ready to be done as well. There would probably be a spike in divorce rates in the Missouri River zone if we had two more weeks! But for those young gunners out there, opportunities in January would be great in most years.I think many of us old timers are so used to the birds being gone before the season closed (as was the case 20+ years ago), that we think we should be able to hunt them as long as they are here. We don't hunt pheasants, deer or other resident species year round just because they are here, but to see these migratory birds hunted well into January further south makes us wonder, why not us too?For those of you that didn't catch Tom Jensens weekly game and fish report on tv last night, it was regarding this topic. Mike Szymanski eluded to the changing climate and later migration. It sounded like upwards of 200k birds are left in the state. That may well be an extreme with our mild fall, but 10k a few years ago was also an extreme. In the vast majority of the last 7 years or so there has definitely been huntable numbers left after season closed.</blockquote>

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