The spring snow goose season is a federal "conservation order" -- as opposed to a traditional hunting season -- implemented by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service some 15 years ago in an effort to ...

Don’t put away your shotguns yet. The 2024 Nebraska light goose season opens Saturday and it is a long season for us in the West Zone, too. Waterfowlers can hunt until April 5. Some other season ...

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 ...

Looking for an early remedy for that lingering cabin fever? You might want to consider grabbing a favorite shotgun, several boxes of No. 4 or BB steel shot and taking advantage of the special snow ...

MONTPELIER >> Vermont and seven other states are holding spring snow goose hunting season to help cut down on the growing population that officials say is destroying habitat. Vermont's season runs ...

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 ...

With a speaker in the foreground, this was the author’s view of the decoy spread. (John Lawrence Hanson/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some ...

A lot of folks leave their snow goose hunting efforts to the dates after the regular waterfowl season, when they can use electronic calls and have as many shells in their guns as they will hold. Snows ...

We watched intently as our guide, Nate, worked his black lab retriever, scooping geese that had fallen far from the decoys. A short, high-pitched blast on a whistle and an exaggerated arm motion to ...

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission made a landmark decision Thursday, electing to eliminate the light goose conservation order. Texas is the first state to do so. “It’s a big victory for the ...

The only snow goose I ever saw growing up was from pictures of the white birds in the Audubon Society encyclopedias my grandparents got me for my birthdays. Heck, in the 1970s around here you didn’t ...