North Dakota Outdoors: 2019 spring conservation order

The first official bird hunting season opener of 2019 took place in late February, but it’s highly unlikely anyone has yet seen, let along hunted, a snow goose flying over North Dakota’s cold, snow-covered landscape.

I can recall a few years ago that reports of scout flocks of snow geese were spotted in mid-February even before the season opened, but those birds met with snow and wind and were soo...