Even in recent times snow geese have gotten so thick that there are no limits in places. I've seen clouds of them while driving across the Canadian prairies that boggle the mind. Not too many years back the Canadians told the Americans that if they didn't thin their snows out in the west that they were going to start mass slaughtering them by any means, as they destroying so much of the grain crop. I read a story of two Colorado(?) brothers who went out to see how many snows they could kill in a week and it came to more than 2000. I hope the soup kitchens and homeless shelters ate well from that effort. A lot of greater Canadians don't go south of Denver these days. The place is stuffed with geese all winter. They love the golf courses, play grounds and football fields, anything that is nice green grass and they do make a mess!
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