Doug Leier is an outreach biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department. Reach him at [email protected]. WEST FARGO – I saw my first Canada goose of the year about 4 p.m. Feb. 7, a sunny Tuesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

I saw my first Canada goose of the year on a sunny Tuesday afternoon on Feb. 7 about 4:30 p.m. Yes, I know the exact date and time as I texted a friend who spends more time outdoors than I do talking ...

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 ...

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — North Dakota’s early Canada Goose hunting season will open statewide on Aug. 15, with closing dates varying by zone. The Missouri River zone will close Sept. 7, the western zone ...

The annual northward migration of the lesser snow goose ranks as one of creation’s most awe-inspiring events. Heading toward ancestral breeding grounds in arctic Canada, goose flocks containing tens ...

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 ...