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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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bird counters estimate 92,000 snow geese pushed through Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Choteau on Thursday. That's the largest single-day number of birds counted this ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Laying on cold, damp ground is usually a recipe for misery. But in this case I think it was a feature ...

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 ...

Some hunters and anglers may be in a slight lull as many hunting seasons have ended or will end soon. Many of us will be determining where and how to fish according to current weather or preparing for ...

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 ...

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 ...