North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 30 - Game and Fish Department
Article 30-04 - Fish and Wildlife Management
Chapter 30-04-02 - Public Use of Game or Fish Management Areas
Section 30-04-02-14.1 - Tree stands, ground blinds, game cameras, and traps

No person may construct or use a permanent tree stand or permanent steps to a tree stand or permanent ground blind on any wildlife management area. Portable tree stands and portable steps, screw-in steps, natural tree stands, portable ground blinds, and game cameras may be used. Portable tree stands and portable steps are defined as those that are held to the tree with ropes, straps, cables, chains, or bars. Screw-in steps are those that are screwed into the tree by hand without the aid of any tools. Ladder-type stands that lean against the tree are portable stands. A notched board placed in a tree crotch is a portable stand. Natural stands are those crotches, trunks, down trees, etc., where no platform is used. The owner's name, city, and telephone number, the owner's North Dakota hunter education number, or a unique identification number issued by the department must be on the tree stand, portable ground blind, game cameras, and traps, and be readable from the ground. Tree stands and ground blinds do not preempt hunting rights of others in the vicinity of the tree stand, ground blind, or game camera. Tree stands, steps, ground blinds, and game cameras may not be put up before August twentieth of the year, and they shall be taken down by January thirty-first of the following year. Stands, steps, ground blinds, and game cameras not removed by the thirty-first of January are considered abandoned property and are subject to removal and confiscation by the director or the director's designee. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a noncriminal offense and shall pay a one hundred dollar fee.

General Authority: NDCC 20.1-11-05

Law Implemented: NDCC 20.1-11-05