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 ...

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 ...

The only snow goose I ever saw growing up was from pictures of the white birds in the Audubon Society encyclopedias my grandparents got me for my birthdays. Heck, in the 1970s around here you didn’t ...

At Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, late winter with the lake frozen and the fields snow-covered is usually the calm before the storm of over 100,000 snow geese migrating through with tens of ...