fabsroman
Ultimate Member
The answer to the question about the "Conservation" (ridicilous name) Season for Light Geese,.... it's 100% about the amount of destruction they cause on farms. 1-2K birds can land just before sunrise and wipe out a literally acres of crop. They have a different beak/mouth, a Canada has serrated sections that "cut" foliage as they eat, a snow goose YANKS the entire plant out of the ground root and all (depending on crop/ground conditions).
It isn't unusual at all for farmers to go out back and "flock shoot" snows in an effort to get them up and moving to mitigate damage.
All of this being said... most hunters kill snows just to kill. They are a tuff bird, tough to kill, tough and depending on what they've been eating they said to be disgusting aside from maybe jerky or something like that.
I don't hunt anything I can't/won't eat. Nothing personal against people who chose to, just my preference in life. No "conservation" hunting for me, I'm not killing a bunch of birds to just throw them in a ditch somewhere.
If you threw them in a ditch somewhere, it would be considered wanton waste and a crime. They need to be disposed of properly by throwing them in the garbage. The law is utterly ridiculous. Had a friends pulverize a dove one year. It was like hamburger. So, he threw it into the field. Game wardens were watching the field and they charged him with wanton waste at the end of the day.
They should have something set up for feed the hungry where waterfowl can be donated, especially on the eastern shore.