JAMESTOWN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – If you don’t hunt in North Dakota, there’s still opportunity to do some “shooting.”

The North Dakota Game & Fish Department is once again holding their Watchable Wildlife Photo contest through October 3. Game & Fish Wildlife Biologist Doug Leier says all you need is a camera and some pertinent information about the photo to upload it.

The contest has categories for nongame and game species, as well as plants/insects. An overall winning photograph will be chosen, with the number of place winners in each category determined by the number of qualified entries.

Contestants are limited to no more than five entries. Photos must have been taken in North Dakota.

Leier also shared the latest numbers from the Spring Grouse counts that were recently reported.

The spring grouse census serves as relative indices of breeding populations and are largely representative of production and recruitment from the previous year. For sharptails, they can be used in combination with brood count data to predict fall populations.

Game and Fish staff conduct late summer roadside counts from late-July through August to survey upland game broods and will release a summary in early September.

You can find more information at gf.nd.gov.

Listen to Doug Leier talk the great outdoors with JD in the Morning on Big Dog 95.5 FM Thursday mornings at 7:40 AM.