Snow goose quest begins
By Patriot Staff
Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:56 AM CST
LITTLE ROCK - Duck hunting season has closed, but there are tens of thousands of other waterfowl in Arkansas that can be targets for outdoors people willing to put in some effort.
These are snow geese, and the opportunity is officially the Snow Goose Conservation Order. This is a multi-year event brought about by snow geese being far too prolific in their breeding grounds in northern Canada. The geese are literally eating themselves out of house and home up there. The conservation order is in effect Feb. 1-April 25.
If you don’t have a place to hunt snow geese, a suggestion from the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is to take a state highway map and draw or make a mental note of a large triangle from Corning to Little Rock to Eudora.
