Here you’ll have better luck going the DIY route. You can still get permission by door knocking in South Dakota, though success rates vary. There’s also a ton of Conservation Reserve Enhancement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota are some of the best places on the continent for spring snow goose hunt-ing. Nebraska's spring snow goose hunting season is underway and will run until April 13 ...

If you have been doing any waterfowling, don’t put away your shotguns yet. The 2025 Nebraska Light Conservation Season opens Monday, and it is a long season for us in the West Zone, too. Waterfowlers ...

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 ...