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 ...

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 ...

Northern marshes are being turned into empty, desecrated mud flat wastelands. The culprit? Snow geese. These marshes are the breeding ground for snow geese. Once destroyed, some fear the species will ...

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 ...

180 degrees different from traditional fall hunts. Much of spring snow goose hunting is time and weather dependent. The same is generally true in the fall, except then it's cold weather systems that ...

Tired of chasing white, windblown garbage bags, two Nebraska waterfowlers put their heads together, thinking there had to be a better way to decoy snow geese into shooting range. So, they turned to ...

The bodies of 142 migratory birds, the majority of them snow geese, were found last week in a rural area south of Saskatoon ...

A little more than a decade ago, creation of a-no-holds-barred hunting season targeting an exploding snow goose population generated giddy anticipation among Texas waterfowlers. Texas' coastal ...

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Apr. 23—GRAND FORKS — Roger Furstenau was hunting snow geese west of Edmore, North Dakota, recently when he noticed several of the normally wary birds just weren't acting right. The U.S. Fish and ...