"We'd been trying to reduce the population of giant Canada geese in Ohio ... "This year, we've expanded the goose season by four days, to 78 days of goose hunting, and increased the daily bag ...

But unregulated hunting and habitat destruction played havoc on a lot of waterfowl species, including the giant Canada. By the turn of the 20 th century, in fact, shooting a giant Canada goose was ...

Hunting and habitat loss decimated the birds’ population a century ago. Numbers had dwindled so low that scientists believed the biggest type of Canada goose, the giant Branta canadensis maxima ...

I remember bagging my first Canada goose back in 1963. One of my longtime friends, Fred Bundy, and I were hunting up near Alpaugh, and we saw a small flock feeding in a winter barley field.

science-based hunting regulations. Now the giant Canada goose - part of what is now called the Temperate Breeding Population, or TBP - is the most abundant subspecies in the Mississippi River ...

They may have been introduced from southern flocks as a candidate for hunting ... in an extremely abundant goose population. Several million of the giant Canada geese now populate North America.

When Scott Threinen was 10 years old, he was doing chores on his family's dairy farm west of Rochester, in the small town of Mantorville, Minn., when some Canada geese landed in a field behind the ...

The giant Canada goose was well and alive in Rochester ... The Department of Natural Resources established a waterfowl hunting refuge around the city and hunters began crowding the highway ...

The season opens early to help control Vermont's resident Canada goose population before more migrate south from Quebec ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, Canada geese had been completely eliminated from Ohio and various subspecies, including the giant Canada goose that ... regulations on hunting and ...