North Dakota's spring snow goose conservation season is in progress, but since the birds are just beginning to arrive, it's a good time to reflect on the past five years of this recent hunting ...

In the spring of 1999, I was working as a game warden when the first-ever spring light goose conservation season arrived. The purpose then -- and still to this day -- is to reduce light goose (snow ...

Liberalized regulations, including a spring "conservation order" in effect since 1999 - officials don't like to call it a hunting season - have slowed the rate of population growth. But they haven't ...

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 ...

Mike Szymanski had what seemed like a good game plan in place when he decided to try his luck at spring snow goose hunting one afternoon last week. A migratory game bird biologist for the North Dakota ...

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — North Dakota’s waterfowl hunting season opens Sept. 27 for residents and Oct. 4 for nonresidents. Swan hunting also begins Oct. 4 for licensed hunters. Shooting hours for geese ...

It’s hard to believe that it was more than 20-some years ago when I was working as a game warden when the first spring light goose conservation order arrived. Time flies. The purpose then -- and ...