Idaho Goose Hunting Season Set By Fish and Game

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission today set waterfowl and sage grouse seasons for the 2008 fall season.

The 107-day goose season, unchanged from last year, will run from Oct. 4- Jan. 16 in northern and eastern Idaho and the Fort Hall Reservation; and from Oct. 11-Jan. 23 in the southwestern part of the state.

The bag limit will be four geese.

The duck season will be 107 days, running from Oct. 4-Jan. 16, in northern and eastern Idaho and the Fort Hall Reservation; and from Oct. 11-Jan. 23 in the southwestern part of the state.

The bag limit will be seven ducks. The season will be closed on canvasbacks.

A shorter scaup season will run Oct. 25-Jan. 16, in the northern and eastern parts of the state, and from Nov. 1-Jan. 23 in southwest Idaho.

Commissioners also set the seasons for sage-grouse hunting, which will open Sept. 20 in the following areas:

- Southwestern Owyhee County, 23-day season, two-bird bag limit.

- Northwestern Owyhee County, seven-day- season, one-bird limit.

- Eastern Owyhee County, closed.

- Magic Valley, seven-day season, one-bird limit.

- Parts of Power, Oneida and Cassia counties, seven-day season, one-bird limit.

- Most of the Upper Snake Region as well as Lemhi and part of Custer counties, 23-day season, two-bird limit.

- Big Desert area west of I-15 and south of U.S. 20, seven-day season, one-bird limit.

- Southeastern part of the state, east of I-15 and south of U.S. 26, closed.

More information will be available in the 2008 Waterfowl Seasons and Rules brochure and a pamphlet on sage grouse hunting rules, which will be available later this month from Fish and Game.