Texas is first state to remove light goose conservation order

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The goose conservation order was removed in hopes to ease hunting pressure on the population of wintering light geese in Texas, which is at an all-time low.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission made a landmark decision Thursday, electing to eliminate the light goose conservation order. Texas is the first state to do so. “It’s a big victory for the resource, snow geese, the state of the Texas, returning respect back to snow goose hunting,” Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s waterfowl program leader Kevin Kraai said. “And being an example for the rest of the country.

Flocks of snow geese arrive in Fort Bend County for winter During the 1990s, waterfowl conservationists were concerned about the detrimental impact that rapidly growing light goose populations could have on nesting habitat in the Arctic. Waterfowl managers feared overgrazing by this booming population of birds could cause irreversible damage to these breeding grounds. In response, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service established the light goose conservation order in 1999.

 

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