Two owners of a North Dakota hunting lodge will be sentenced this week for their involvement in helping guests illegally shoot and possess waterfowl in 2004 and 2005. Two owners of a North Dakota hunting lodge will be sentenced this week in Bismarck for their involvement in helping guests illegally shoot and possess waterfowl in 2004 and 2005. Guides regularly took clients on morning and evening waterfowl hunts, even if the clients had already bagged their limit of waterfowl, according to court documents. Most of the guides were charged with unlawful sale and transportation of migratory game birds and unlawful possession of untagged migratory game birds. Steve Cordts, an avid waterfowl hunter and waterfowl specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, witnessed an unusual event while hunting ducks recently on the Mississippi River. read more