One day last week, Alex Russo ambled into a field near his home in northeast South Dakota. With him were his son and two friends, who also guide for Russo at his hunting lodge, Flatland Flyways. This ...
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 ...
Snow geese are one of the most abundant species of waterfowl in the world, with a breeding range extending from Wrangel Island, Russia, across the Arctic coast and islands of northern Alaska and ...
Anyone who spends any time perusing Utah or Idaho’s hunting regulations will be surprised when they stumble across the portion of the waterfowl proclamation that covers light geese. This is because ...
The snow geese that migrate north through Pennsylvania in late winter/early spring, drawing thousands of spectators to the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, are on the decline, according to the ...
Laying on cold, damp ground is usually a recipe for misery. But in this case I think it was a feature and not a bug. An uncomfortable body would at least be an alert body, alert for the arctic bound ...
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 ...
KLEINFELTERSVILLE, Pa. — A few dozen birdwatchers gathered in the predawn darkness to wait for the moment when thousands of migrating snow geese stopped honking and preening to suddenly take flight ...
The snow geese population at Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area dipped to 35,000 midday Friday, cut in half from numbers earlier in the week. Friday morning, Middle Creek staff counted only 2,500 ...