Ducks Unlimited, a wetlands conservation group, circulates recipes like snow goose bourguignon, and the Arctic Goose Joint Venture,Mens Chateau Parka  a group of American and Canadian wildlife managers and scientists, has published an entire snow goose cookbook. But such remedies could not begin to arrest the population boom, said Robert F. Rockwell, a research associate in ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York who has studied the snow goose population in Hudson Bay for over 40 years and watched its nesting areas become a spreading wasteland. Womens Expedition Parka "We had hoped that by relaxing hunting regulations we would be able to control the population," he said in an interview. "But the population was larger than we thought." Essentially, he said, the available supply far outstrips hunters' appetites. "I have friends in the North saying that they've already bought a third freezer and can't eat any more," he said. Reducing the snow goose population would require a vast expansion of hunting, perhaps kills organized just to thin the flocks. That is a more aggressive approach than most wildlife managers are ready to undertake, canada goose jacket partly because of likely collateral damage to other birds. Mindful of history, some conservationists find it hard to worry about the overpopulation issue. "Us guys working in the field remember when they were in low numbers," said Tom Dwyer, an executive with Ducks Unlimited. "We don't want to do anything too dramatic to cut them back." The fear is that, just as recreating some marshes may have favored snow geese over other migratory birds, human action to undo the results may have unintended consequences for other wildlife. Besides, the snow goose has an enthusiastic following, at least here near Chico. On the water-covered rice fields of towns like Durham, Glenn and Willows at the northern end of California's Central Valley, the geese draw onlookers from all over when they congregate by the thousands in December and January. Rice farmers at places like Rancho Esquon, a 7,000-acre property that has set aside 900 acres as waterfowl habitat, canada goose kensington coat some of it in partnership with Ducks Unlimited, find their conservation efforts take the edge off environmental objections to the amount of water they use on their crop. The farmers have adopted other environmentally friendly practices.