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MONTPELIER — A decades-long boom in the population of snow geese has led state and federal fish and wildlife agencies to expand hunting seasons in hopes of cutting their numbers in half across North ...

Anyone who spends any time perusing Utah or Idaho’s hunting regulations will be surprised when they stumble across the portion of the waterfowl proclamation that covers light geese. This is because ...

Dead calm. With emphasis on “dead.” When the hunters arrived at the blind shortly after sunrise, the pond looked like a mirror and the sock decoys hung limp. “We need some wind,” said Jim Shaw of ...

The conservation snow goose season is underway and for many hunters that means another season of their favorite sport, good food for the table and an attempt to help a staggering snow goose population ...

If you have been doing any waterfowling, don’t put away your shotguns yet. The 2025 Nebraska Light Conservation Season opens Monday, and it is a long season for us in the West Zone, too. Waterfowlers ...

Ducks and geese share webbed feet, a branch on the avian family tree, and overlapping habits and habitats. Sometimes you will have opportunities to take both ducks and geese on the same hunt, but more ...

A hunter in Quebec has been ordered to pay a total of $20,000 for hunting snow geese without a permit, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) says. On Monday, Joey Proulx, a resident of ...

When Todd Fanning again guided goose hunters Tuesday, it was hard not to see what we have today compared with when he started Westline Guide Service 40 years ago: luxurious heated hunting pits, longer ...