Boys’ Spring Snow

Back in the early to mid-1970's, when I was nearer to the single-digit age my sons are now, snow geese were just those noisy, stratospheric little V-formations we kids watched while waiting for the carpool to come pick us up on cold mornings in Mississippi's delta. Times sure have changed since then.

None of the local men I knew back in those days hunted them.   Everyone hunted ducks and the few migrating honkers that occasionally ventured that far south. A burgeoning, mid-continental snow goose population, ever-fattened by the increased agricultural landscape that has evolved since the 1970s now threatens the existence of their breeding grounds, the fragile Arctic tundra.

Hunters have been called on to reduce this population well into the spring months, long after traditional waterfowl seasons have closed.  It's created a great opportunity to hunt this marvelous creature, to spend more time at hunting camp, to further train retrievers in a live hunting environment.  It's also a great time for Dads to spend more time with their young hunters.

Ramsey Russell's GetDucks.com