Pierre, S.D. In the third year of a “conservation order,” allowing the spring harvest of light geese, South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks officials say the harvest dropped from the first two years of the hunt. An estimated 3,600 resident and 1,700 nonresid

Vaa said the spring migration was different from the past spring due to a heavy snowpack in eastern and northeastern South Dakota. In the U.S. and Canada, the harvest of light geese since 1998 has been more than 1 million birds; the past three years the conservation order has accounted for a third of the […]