Nick chats with his hunting mentor Dick Monson on his latest work with the Ranum WPA and previews an early spring weekend perfect for getting outdoors! 

Nick previews the upcoming North Dakota State High School Clay Target League season with State Director Joe Courneya.  With the addition of 5-stand and sporting clays this season, the league now offers four disciplines for high school shooters in the Peace Garden State. 

Nick previews the final weekend of February and discusses factors relating to the current ammunition shortage in this week's installment of the Weekender's Edge. 

North Dakota Wildlife Federation Executive Director John Bradley gives us a view from the house and senate floor on important outdoors-related bills before the ND Legislature and where they sit headed into the middle stretch of the session. 

Nick previews a nice weekend for ice fishing and checks in with Game Warden Corey Erck on last year's boat registration-related issues on the water. 

Nick catches up with longtime Friend of the Show Tanner Bruse and talks habitat planning for pheasants this spring.  Often overlooked, Bruse stresses the need for nesting and rearing cover over other considerations most people like to put in their habitat plans. 

Nick shares the options for starting, coaching and getting involved with the USA Clay Target League and North Dakota State High School Clay Target League this spring for both kids and adults, and previews a chilly weekend. 

Nick chats with NDG&F Big Game Biologist Jason Smith on where the deer herd sits at midwinter, and what survey numbers are showing for the state's elk and moose hunts last fall. 

Nick catches up with Tonya Duffy, Barnes County State's Attorney, reacting to the sentence which included jail time for a defendant pleading guilty to poaching seven deer north of Valley City. 

Nick goes long with RJ Gross to get a full update on where pheasants sit, along with habitat and food on the landscape and what people can do this spring to advance populations of upland birds in ND.