And it could be so easy!

[AmarilloMike]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/24/ny...geese.html?hpw

From the New York Times:

"Officials plan to reduce the number of Canada geese in New York State by two-thirds, eventually trimming the population to 85,000 from 250,000, according to a report prepared by several city, state and federal agencies. "

“The captured geese are placed alive in commercial turkey crates. The geese would be brought to a secure location and euthanized with methods approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Euthanized geese would be buried.”

I bet there are some people on this board that would PAY to help solve this problem.

Best,

Mike

[Big Friend Ten (BFT)]

So rather than the Greenpeace, PETA, WWF, and other claimed nature loverse appreciating nature with a few extra geese the State of New York will waste tax dollars conducting a fowl roundup than generate revenue by selling extra goose hunt (or pay extra for an expanded bag limits) permits! I guess those "intellectuals" who make the rules in the Empire State aren't so smart?

Mark

[Labowner]

In the late 70's we had a 90 day season that was reduced to 60, bag limits reduced and they wonder why the population is up and they don't know how to reduce it?
How bout a spring season I could fit in a few afternoon goose hunts after Turkey hunting.

[Rod N. Gunn]

These are the same urban hypocrites who love the idea of reintroducing wolves to the west... The same ones who shake their heads in disbelief over the creulty of hunting while enjoying their veal entree. A freightening number of people have no idea where meat even comes from. How about everyone gets a tour of the kill floor in a slaughter house to graduate from high school? Better yet, how about we reintroduce wolves and brown bears to Central Park, that would bring home a few lessons about how protien flows through the food chain. I'm Dave Fuller and I approve this message.

[Dean Romig]

So, the city-bred cognicenti think gassing and burying 165,000 delicious Canada Geese is the socially acceptable (PC) way to get the job done ??????

That is the most arrogant, shallow and disgusting affront we sportsmen and lovers of wild creatures may have been slapped in the face with in recent decades.

What about all the NYC soup kitchens? What about any other outlet for good wholesome meat?????

[Richard Flanders]

I fully agree with Dean. Thanks for saying it Dean. It's a disgusting display of total ignorance. And it's correct, soup kitchens, food banks and such would love to have that for table fare. I suppose the beef,pig, chicken and turkey lobbies, Krogers, Meiers, Safeway, etc would raise a ruckus to get it stopped though. Discrimination you know.... ruining our business! Then the FDA would declare it unsafe. In the early 19th century Laplanders and reindeer were brought into Alaska in an attempt to get commercial reindeer farming going. They put them out into the right habitat in remote places. It worked quite well but became a favorite and exotic table fare in SanFrancisco so the beef lobby whined and got it stopped on sanitary grounds, which was total BS. What could be healthier than meat with 1/3 the fat and almost 3x the protein as beef? The reindeer are still here and in places like Nome raised for antlers as an aphrodisiac and sold to Asians and well mixed in with some of the caribou herds where they just went wild.

[Lee St.Clair]

Ok you Michiganders....In the Irish Hills (I am aware of it being done at Loch Erin)there is a 'group' that collects the canadian geese in the spring and relocates them. They also go around breaking all the eggs that have already been laid.
How dare these geese live, nest, and leave their excrements on these fine lawns?
It makes my heart cry as these are 1 of the few animals that mate for life. (I find myself counting adult geese when I see them and hope is an even number.) They take responsibility for their 'choices'. Something man seems unable to do. Seems man wants to be the 'control' but not the responsibility for that 'control'.
God created man superior to all living things here on earth. Animals were placed here for us to 'use', not abuse. I do believe our superiority has been called into question time and again.
I know...I am preaching to the choir. smiles. Am getting off my soap box now....and feel better. I think...lol. Thank you all for listening(or reading....)
Blessings, Lee
PS This is Lee Alexander....finally went back to my maiden name...smiles.

[Old and Reliable]

But the netting and relocating- not a viable plan, as geese have, same as homing pigeons, a built in radar that brings them back to their home site, a GPS of the "Goosin' World" I guess-

I'm a sponsor member of DU- part of the "Catch-22" spin of our efforts and dinero since 1937 is- we now have Canadian geese in areas where twenty years ago- if you saw one all season, it was memorable, whether you shot it or not-

Some groups have found that instead of destroying the eggs (crows, foxes, coyotes, etc do that jon quite well) spraying the eggs with WD-40 is more "humane" than stomping them into a "Oblivion Omelette"

I am also a die-hard golfer, and nothing plugs up the spikes on my Foot-Joys more than green goose poop- balance of Nature I guess

[Dean Romig]

California Condor
California Condors

Kentucky Cardinal
Kentucky Cardinals

Idaho Potato
Idaho Potatoes

Ohio Buckeye
Ohio Buckeyes

Tennessee Walker
Tennessee Walkers

Canada Goose
Canada Geese

Polar Bear
Polar Bears.....

.....I don't think there's any such thing as Polish Bears... help me on this one Dave

[Buddy Stroud]

Wasting all that Ribeye in the Sky !