• Full 5 nights-4 Day Hunt-$900.00+ Tax
• EVERYTHING THE SAME AS 3 DAY PHEASANT HUNT Transportation to and from the airport if needed. All meals and snacks, free WiFi, Cable TV, Indoor plumbing, :), the works. To and from the hunting location.
• LODGING AND 3 MEALS A DAY
• CHEF ON STAFF

ALL INCLUSIVE HUNT

BOTH PITS AND LAYDOWNS

ELECTRONIC CALLS

HUNDREDS OF DECOYS BOTH STATIONARY AND MOVING

**The federal waterfowl stamp is not required for this event!

South Dakota Fish and Game Site

Snow geese generally begin arriving into the eastern 1/3 of South Dakota in late February to early March.

Call the Snow Goose Hotline -- (605) 885-6401, which is a recording administered by Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

South Dakota residents will need an annual small game, 1-day small game, youth small game, combination, or junior combination license and Migratory Bird Certification stamp to hunt snow geese. Residents who are at least 12 years old may buy licenses and hunt snow geese. Hunters ages 12 through 15 will need a Hunter Safety Card.

Nonresident snow goose licenses can be purchased online with a credit card or over the counter at LICENSE AGENTS throughout South Dakota. The adult license costs $45 and is valid for the entire conservation order. Youth licenses (ages 12-15) cost $25. No other license or stamp is required.

Shotgun Shell Capacity: Shotguns with a shell capacity of more than 3 shells are allowed.

Electronic calls: Use of tapes of migratory bird calls or sounds, or electrically-amplified imitations of bird calls is allowed.

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SNOW GEESE -- Includes snows, blues and Ross’ geese.

DATES -- February 14 through May 3, statewide.

DAILY LIMIT -- 20

Non Toxic Shot Only STEEL

Electronic Calls OK

**The federal waterfowl stamp is not required for this event!

POSSESSION LIMIT -- Unlimited

SHOOTING HOURS -- One-half hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset

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SPRING SNOW GOOSE CONSERVATION ORDER FACTS

1. The Snow Goose (snows, blues, Ross') Conservation Order is a cooperative effort by the U.S. and Canada to address serious arctic ecosystem degradation to primarily coastal areas in arctic Canada caused by an over abundance of mid-continent snow geese. Simply put, the size of the population has increased in the central and eastern arctic so much that the geese are damaging their breeding grounds by overgrazing.

2. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act was amended to authorize the establishment of the Snow Goose Conservation Order which allows the taking of this population of snow geese after March 10. The Conservation Order also allows the use of electronic calls, unplugged shotguns, and provided for extended shooting hours ( half hour after sunset). The first Conservation Order was in spring of 1999.

3. Mid-continent snow goose population objective set by a Flyway Management Plan is 1.0 - 1.5 million birds, as measured on the winter waterfowl survey in early January.

4, Recent 3-year averages for the winter waterfowl survey are: 1995-97 - 2.65 million; 1996-98 - 2.74 million; 1997-99 - 2.80 million; 1998-00 - 2.65 million; 1999-01 - 2.43 million; 2000-02 - 2.47 million; 2001-03 - 2.49 million; 2002 - 04 - 2.43 million; 2003 - 05 2.31 million; 2004-06 - 2.24 million. The number of snow geese is still way above population objective but declining somewhat.

5. Conservation Order harvest in South Dakota: Average Conservation Order harvest in South Dakota for the past 8 years (1999-2006) is 89,617. The spring conservation order harvest is much larger than the harvest during the regular fall season. Estimated snow goose harvest during the regular fall season for the six-year period of 1999 - 2004 was only 18,355. States that harvest the most snow geese during the Conservation Order in the Central Flyway are Texas, South Dakota, and Nebraska, and in the Mississippi Flyway it's Louisiana, Arkansas, and Missouri.