On Thu, 6 May 1999 StahlfeldE at aol.com wrote:
> Tweeters:
> I like lawns. Especially when I can play with my five-year-old daughter,
> running around without worrying about falling on asphalt, playing catch,
> jumping, tumbling.
> I also liked taking her, my wife and two-year-old son to Montlake, where they
> saw as many Canadas as they wanted, and were thrilled by the goslings (one
> family had eighteen).
> Everything should have its place. Canadas in Montlake, wonderful. Canadas
> causing a health hazard, no.

I have one small problem with this logic. Eric's statement is probably the
standard and I'm not attacking him but I don't think his logic is well
thought out.

We want Geese in areas like the fill (preferrably not the attacking ones
;)) yet we expect the geese to be command animals and not go on to the
lawns areas which they see as perfectly good forage areas. If
we choose to have large areas of lawns then we choose to have problems
with animlas who love to utilize those areas like CAGO, starlings etc..
I'm not indicating that I don't enjoy lawns myself sometimes but a hard
decision has to be made, do we want to keep the lawns and the problem or
correct the root of the problem.

I do not believe in any way shape or form that "nuking the geese" is the
answer, sure kill alot of geese and you *might* make a dent in their
numbers temporarily.

Any person that considers this option should look at humans tract record
for controlling pest species (its not great!). The sad fact is that we
are great at accidentally getting rid of good species and horrible at
removing pest species. The only real solution is to remove the areas that
are so attractive to geese, maybe lawns areas can be located away from the
water. I'm not trying to handle the logistics but merely stating that I
believe we can have some lawns and still control the geese populations.

If you still think "nuking" is the best option, go ahead kill alot of
geese or addle eggs, just remember that if the faucet is leaking you can
plug a hole but sooner or later a few more leaks will sprout up until you
actually fix the faucet.