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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I woke up at 3 a.m. I was glad to be out of the routine of putting on my ice fishing suit and hitting the lakes. On this day I was woke up to the sound of pheasants cackling and thousands of ...

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 ...

Buried in the sixth paragraph of an eight-paragraph statement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a document in which the USFWS discusses the urgent need for expanded snow goose hunting, are a ...

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 ...

Vermont’s spring snow goose hunt will be held from March 11 through April 23. Since 2009, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has annually issued a “Conservation Order” to allow the reduction of the ...