Minnesota is on the fringe of snow-goose migration routes. The DNR sold 1,400 $3.50 spring permits last year, and an estimated 770 hunters killed about 2,400 light geese.

I prefer to kick start spring much earlier, marked by the return of snow geese. South Dakota's spring snow goose season opened Feb. 1, in what should be the heart of winter.

The South Dakota spring season began Feb. 15, and it will continue until May 4. In the 1990s, wildlife researchers began noticing an exploding snow goose population was devastating portions of the ...

Snow goose migration typically occurs from mid-March to early April, ... South Dakota has had a warmer-than-average winter season, according to the National Weather Service.

Migrating snow geese have been spotted in South Dakota over the past two weeks, according to the Snow Goose Migration Report.. GFP senior waterfowl biologist Rocco Murano posted on GFP social ...

One of the great mysteries of the animal kingdom is migration. We’ll never know what possesses an animal to instinctively travel great distances annually as seasons change. It’s amazing… ...

When Nate Phinney packed up his ice fishing gear in Watertown, South Dakota and set out for a nearby lake on Feb. 9, he wasn’t expecting the scene he found when he arrived — some 1,000 to 1,500 dead ...

Ice, snow and cold have kept the geese hung up in Nebraska. Iowa guide says 100-bird-harvest days do occur, but rarely. Minnesota's spring snow geese season opened today; it runs through April 30.

As the late-winter snow goose migration through the southeastern part of the state winds down, officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission are feeling as though they dodged a large-caliber ...

The tip of the annual spring waterfowl migration’s spear surged into northern South Dakota last weekend, as throngs of waterfowl filled the skies and fields from Waubay to Mobridge.

Leprechauns weren’t the only thing to visit South Dakota on St. Patrick’s Day. Hundreds of eagles nested in the trees and on the lake in Clark County.

As the season implies, hunting snow geese in spring is about 180 degrees different from traditional fall hunts. Much of spring snow goose hunting is time and weather dependent. The same is ...