Banner Year for Snow Goose Hunting
Get those snow goose decoys ready! This year is going to be a big one.
It’s been widely reported that this goose hunting season is going to be a banner year for snow geese migrations. Leading biologists are saying that this year’s bumper crop of snows and their blue morphs is nothing short of spectacular.
The nesting season has been a good time for the juvenile snow geese to grow up and this year could see numbers around 1.5 juveniles to every 1 adult. Juvenile snow geese are notorious for dropping in on goose decoy spreads.
As many of you know we’ve been battling for over a decade of over population of the snow goose. They’ve been over grazing so much of their feeding grounds up north while the adults are living longer.
The goslings have had a low survival rate over the past decade due to adults competing and over grazing these areas. The little ones just can’t compete with the big ones for the food. This goose hunting season is a really important one for the future of the snow geese.
If they continue to overpopulate and live longer then eventually they’re going to run out of good grazing grounds and we could see larger dangerous implications on the entire population.
It’s up to you find goose hunters out there to load up on your snow goose decoys, get those spreads ready and take as many as you legally can. I know we’ve seen special hunts for snows and other provisions to help reduce the problem.
We need more special snow hunts. We’ve got to help save this population by blasting as many of these as we can. Those juveniles are going to spend a lot of time this season in your decoy spread so get ready for it.
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