North Dakota Outdoors: Understanding the lottery for N.D.

Where are the fishing biting? How are the deer numbers? Two of the most often asked questions I get.

Along those same lines, the most popular licensing inquiry deals with the lottery and bonus points.

Let’s establish from the start these are “bonus” points not any kind of “preference” point as some may think. The words and functionality are not the same.

A preference would give more weight to each...