Watson, Minn. For DNR wildlife manager Dave Trauba, this season’s hunt in the Lac qui Parle Goose Zone again demonstrated the need for a later opener and later closing date to the goose season.

The season ended there on Wednesday. More than 147,000 geese were counted earlier in the week, a count that’s the “highest seen in many, many, many years,” he said. Hunter harvest will be approximately 5,700 to 5,800 this year. The harvest quota was 12,000 Canada geese. Good duck hunting still exists in the area, Trauba […]

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