Vermont has a special spring snow goose hunting opportunity that 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Goose hunters, like world-champion duck caller Antonio Jones, aren't having much of an impact on snow-goose populations. Jones shot this bird Wednesday afternoon near Stuttgart, Ark. (Photo by Todd ...

Minnesotans can harvest light geese (including white and blue phase lesser snow geese and Ross' geese) from March 1 to April 30, under the terms of a federal conservation order. The order, which ...

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 ...

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 ...