Eastern South Dakota was alive with wildlife last weekend as hundreds of thousands of birds made their annual trek north. Witnessing the migration during a snow goose hunt was something special. By ...

Snow goose hunting season is not far off and can't come soon enough. Duck season is either over or nearly over for most of us. Canada geese are already closed in most states. What better cure for ...

When the spring snow goose conservation order began in 1999, biologists miscalculated the number of mid-content snows by at least 5 million birds. At the time, it was thought that there were 3 million ...

Hello, friends. This past week I headed down to southern South Dakota with my friend, Randy Norton, and his 12-year-old black lab, Conner, for my first snow goose hunt. To be perfectly honest, I had ...

Serious snow goose hunters make up a strange subset of the waterfowling world, which is already its own weird subset of the greater hunting community. Everything is taken to the extreme in snow goose ...

Standing on wingtips and flipping onto their backs to spill air, the flock of snow geese seemed to shatter, fall, and reform itself 30 yards lower as it bore down on the decoy spread. Surely this was ...

They can be seen flying overhead during certain times of the day, descending up fields to feed like a small blizzard. They rest up and often spend nights on waterways, creating a white island of ...

Despite last year's expansion of the hunting season for snow geese, a measure intended to winnow the waterfowl's numbers, the birds continue to overpopulate their habitats, according to biologists.

Doug Leier is an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Reach him at [email protected]. WEST FARGO – I saw my first Canada goose of the year about 4 p.m. Feb. 7, a sunny Tuesday ...