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 ...

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 ...

Hunting ethics took another step backward in November when the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service issued a directive that allows some states, including Minnesota and the Dakotas, to use unplugged shotguns ...

"The good old days are now." — Tom Clancy I used to get tired of hearing about the good old days. Older hunters and fishermen are the world's worst when it comes to relating how great it was in the ...

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 ...

With a speaker in the foreground, this was the author’s view of the decoy spread. (John Lawrence Hanson/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some ...

Vermont has a special spring snow goose hunting opportunity that 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 ...

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 ...

Minnesotans can harvest light geese (including white and blue phase lesser snow geese and Ross' geese) from March 1 to April 30, under the terms of a federal conservation order. The order, which ...

Hello, friends. This past week I headed down to southern South Dakota with my friend, Randy Norton, and his 12-year-old black lab, Conner, for my first snow goose hunt. To be perfectly honest, I had ...