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7-9-19, 5:49pm
….. Your Canada Goose is cooked!
In the morning hours in Denver parks, city employees round up flightless (shh, they are moulting!) Canada Geese. According to the Denver Post they drive away with hundreds of geese, but leave a few dozen behind.
Somehow, (no one will say how) either by gunshot, injection, or gas, the geese are slaughtered. USDA inspectors determine whether a given goose is safe for human consumption. The good carcasses are donated to charities which will distribute the meat to "needy families". Thus, Denver's goose is now "cooked".
The resident population of Canada Geese in Denver is 5,000. Parks have problems with poop and "human-wildlife conflict". Many non-lethal procedures have been tried, such as relocating birds to other counties … but nobody wants any more Canada Geese. The goal of these lethal roundups is to reduce the resident population to 2,200.
Not everyone in Denver approves. Parks managers have received threats by voicemail and on the internet.
Looking back, in the late 1950's the great State of Colorado introduced Canada Geese to the Front Range, as a new game bird for hunters. One may say the goal has been achieved, inasmuch as 100,000 geese were harvested by hunters in 2017. Some of the Canada Geese flew into Denver parks and decided to stay... and multiply!
In the morning hours in Denver parks, city employees round up flightless (shh, they are moulting!) Canada Geese. According to the Denver Post they drive away with hundreds of geese, but leave a few dozen behind.
Somehow, (no one will say how) either by gunshot, injection, or gas, the geese are slaughtered. USDA inspectors determine whether a given goose is safe for human consumption. The good carcasses are donated to charities which will distribute the meat to "needy families". Thus, Denver's goose is now "cooked".
The resident population of Canada Geese in Denver is 5,000. Parks have problems with poop and "human-wildlife conflict". Many non-lethal procedures have been tried, such as relocating birds to other counties … but nobody wants any more Canada Geese. The goal of these lethal roundups is to reduce the resident population to 2,200.
Not everyone in Denver approves. Parks managers have received threats by voicemail and on the internet.
Looking back, in the late 1950's the great State of Colorado introduced Canada Geese to the Front Range, as a new game bird for hunters. One may say the goal has been achieved, inasmuch as 100,000 geese were harvested by hunters in 2017. Some of the Canada Geese flew into Denver parks and decided to stay... and multiply!