Numerous state parks, fish and wildlife areas, and other public lands in Illinois will welcome young hunters for the 2025 ...

Serious snow goose hunters make up a strange subset of the waterfowling world, which is already its own weird subset of the greater hunting community. Everything is taken to the extreme in snow goose ...

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 ...

There’s an open goose season somewhere in North America every month of the year except July. That means you can hunt geese on and off from August to the end of the spring snow goose migration in April ...

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 ...

When the spring snow goose conservation order began in 1999, biologists miscalculated the number of mid-content snows by at least 5 million birds. At the time, it was thought that there were 3 million ...

Vermont’s spring snow goose hunt 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 allow the reduction of the ...