In a message dated 4/8/04 10:36:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well - it may be - given that there are so many ok places where the
geese might have gone.
Not here in Maryland, we are full up on "Canadian" Geese
the now "non migratory" geese are now nesting in the median strips at the on ramps to highways
The no mow zones to protect native wildflowers, make a nice coyote free areas
and the population is increasing.
Encountering an enraged gander running down the highway wings flapping, after it's mate has been struck by a car, is quite interesting during a 6 lane, 75 MPH commute.
Every community run off lake and catch basin has at least several pair. In some parks they are like city pigeons.. The animal rights folke are advocating egg addling to slow the population growth.
A local park has a full time boarder collie patrol to keep them off the Lake front.
We maybe facing an Australian rabbit culling situation soon.
Besides the geese, we are being infested with nutria rats and mute swans on the Chesapeake,
and the white tailed deer population is quite out of hand in the area.
The homeowner / car driver tolerance to bambi is reaching its limit.
The Friends of Animals people have a no hunting stance
and the anti gun legislators support it.
Under the Glendening Governorship, the Fish & Wildlife departments were infused with non-lethal management commitees. Their big push was to investigate "hormonal therapy" for deer.
Darting them would be to costly, so to avoid hunting the deer, they would like science to
discover a way to put treated corn in the woods.
I think Rachel Carson had some words about a Silent Spring...
-dZ
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