Future “Nature Matters” columns will focus on the smallest and largest waterfowl species — ducks and swans; this column is devoted to the middle-sized birds — geese.

The Iowa Environmental Council calls the bill the “Goose poop excuse.” It comes from the golf-courses-and-goose-poop wing of the water quality debate. These are folks who can look at overwhelming ...

Probably close to 3,000 large white birds crowded along the far northern shore of Jackson Reservoir, a distance too far to distinguish with certainty the goose for which I was searching. I could drive ...

Foxes ate so many Aleutian cackling geese that by 1940, the birds were thought to be extinct. Craig Swolgaard Bob “Sea Otter” Jones, alone in a wooden dory, traveled to an unexplored island in the ...