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 ...

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 ...

Aldo Leopold, the father of wildlife management described in “A Sand County Almanac,” that the month of March could be recognized by the return of the Canada goose. In the North Country, March brings ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a waterfowl season open somewhere across the four major flyways at almost any point in the year. And for the short time when there aren’t any ducks or geese to hunt in North America, other ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Laying on cold, damp ground is usually a recipe for misery. But in this case I think it was a feature ...

Everyone except the designated photographer had a limit by 6:30 a.m., but the specks kept coming. We watched them flutter in like giant snowflakes for another hour. It was the first goose hunt of the ...

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 ...