Emperor goose hunt proposed for the first time in decades

Emperor geese at Adak Island. (Public Domain photo courtesy U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
A subsistence harvest for Emperor Geese has been proposed this spring for the first time in 30 years. The population declined in the early 1980s. The last subsistence hunt took place in 1987. Jason Schamber, who is a wildlife biologist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game, says that the decades of conservation have paid off.
“Over the last 30 years the population has grown slowly at about three p