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Kelly Armstrong: “You don’t need nearly as many white-tail bucks as you do does in order to make sure that you have good fawning next…”

On the recordOctober 20, 2026
You don’t need nearly as many white-tail bucks as you do does in order to make sure that you have good fawning next year, so we’re trying to protect the long-term viability, and this is the best of the worst-case options we have available to us.
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Kelly Armstrong
Republican · North Dakota

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Explaining the rationale behind hunting restrictions.

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