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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nonhunters and hunters who don’t target Canada geese may be taken a bit off guard when learning those hunters they’ve seen and heard are out taking part in the early Canada goose season in North ...

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When the hunters arrived at the blind shortly after sunrise, the pond looked like a mirror and the sock decoys hung limp. “We need some wind,” said Jim Shaw of Lincoln. Not 24 hours before, Shaw and ...

Monday's start of the third annual extended snow goose-only hunting season went off with a muffled pop rather than the boom heard during the past two seasons. Most outfitters reported marginal ...

Maryland’s Atlantic Population migratory Canada goose hunting season opens December 19, 2025, with two segments running ...

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 ...