I believe this question belongs here because I was taught to cherish our natural resources, hunt and help to manage the wildlife populations, and of course eat good wild game. I am currently working in Kansas and have been here enough times to know that the SE area of KS has a decent migration of Canadian geese and a small population of Snows. This year has been an explosion of the migrating population that I would estimate at 10 fold. Currently here there is no snow cover and much of the water has thawed though it was frozen for a while.
If any of you are familiar with the lakes region of NE Indiana you are familiar with the goose population there and the preponderance of geese that have taken up permanent residence over the last 20 to 25 years. All those people who think they are cute and feed them, then a few years later they are putting up fences and chasing them away because they have basically taken over.
So I am wondering what any of you have seen this winter, in particular the NE portion of the state, with regards to the goose population. I have always considered wildlife and the ability to harvest it as part of my preparedness should SHTF. I would like to know if the depth of snow and freezing of the waters has driven even the resident geese southward this year? I am wondering aloud if the largest freeze on the Great Lakes in three decades or more has driven more geese south, as well as the depth of snow in the Dakotas?
If any of you are familiar with the lakes region of NE Indiana you are familiar with the goose population there and the preponderance of geese that have taken up permanent residence over the last 20 to 25 years. All those people who think they are cute and feed them, then a few years later they are putting up fences and chasing them away because they have basically taken over.
So I am wondering what any of you have seen this winter, in particular the NE portion of the state, with regards to the goose population. I have always considered wildlife and the ability to harvest it as part of my preparedness should SHTF. I would like to know if the depth of snow and freezing of the waters has driven even the resident geese southward this year? I am wondering aloud if the largest freeze on the Great Lakes in three decades or more has driven more geese south, as well as the depth of snow in the Dakotas?
