Michigan Sends Unwanted Geese to Iowa- Endangered Species Act Causes Overpopulation

Detroit News ^ | 6/30/02

[11th Earl of Mar]

MILFORD, Mich. (AP) -- Thousands of unwanted Canada geese are finding a new home in Iowa.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources last week trucked the last of 4,100 of the honking birds to a conservation area 550 miles away, near Chelsea, Iowa. DNR workers took seven truckloads of about 575 each.

[redhead]

"As far as I'm concerned; Goose, another white meat."

I think goose meat is all dark, like duck.

[meenie]

Canada geese were nowhere close to extinction. They are becoming a bigger problem all the time. We need a season and allow commercial hunters to get their numbers down.

[CaptRon]

By the way, for those who don't live near the Great Lakes and have never seen a goose turd; they are about the size of a cat's turd. And they $hit as much, or more, as sea gulls.

Youd don't need to live near the Great Lakes. I live in New York's Lower Hudson Valley and they are as big a problem here as anywhere.

A couple of years ago one of the Towns had a special hunt. The meat was to be given to shelters. The Greens had a fit. The hunt went on anyway and the meat was sent to a lab for inspection. Surprise, surprise, the meat was found unfit to eat because of pollutants they had eaten (I still question the lab report). Of course, the libs had no concern over the health hazard to humans from the droppings.

[TroutStalker]

I don't know why these damned thing are endangered. It seems they are everywhere nowdays, making a huge mess. A large local company has a lake on its property and they have to have a border collie to keep the geese away. The Kansas City Zoo had to get a permit to have a number of them removed because of the mess, plus they were attacking children. The local bleeding hearts were furious that the zoo had them killed and donated to food pantries. They should have been killed along with the geese.

[lambo]

". . . the illegals honk louder . . ."

You must have some of those "La Cucaracha" horns in your neighborhood. If there's anything more maddening, I don't know what it is.

[Hot Tabasco]

Canada geese were nowhere close to extinction.

Agreed! Here in S.E. Michigan, due to the mild winters, the majority of them are no longer migrating south in the winter. Instead, they are taking up home in any available golf course pond, lake and office building pond. Their numbers have become astronomical here and due to the suburban areas becoming more and more populated, the hunting areas are now almost nonexistant.

Time to hire the mexicans during the off season to come in and do some "clear cutting" with machete's since the suckers no longer fear man and will allow you to almost walk right up to them....

[Mark Turbo]

Greensboro has its share too. They really like camping out at the Wal-Mart off Battleground Avenue. I was in Williamsburg, Va. a couple of months ago and saw some geese there. They're breeding well this year too.

As for the Michigan geese, I saw about 30 of them last week at the Metropark along Lake St. Clair just waddling around like they owned the place. I also saw a family of swans in the lake. Now those are birds I don't see everyday.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Hmmmm....I wonder if this means we can truck thousands of blind, piss-poor driving snow birds back to Michigan from Florida when theay arrive here on an annual basis????

[hammerdown]

They need to up the bag limits...

www.michigan.gov (To Print: use your browser's print function)	April 25, 2002
2001-2002 Seasons and Bag Limits
Regular Season SJBP Unit Dates: September 17-October 7, 2001 and December 15-23, 2001 Bag Limit: 2 daily, 4 possession MVP Unit Dates: September 17-October 3, 2001 Bag Limit: 2 daily, 4 possession Local Goose Management Unit Seasons Local GMU seasons will end before listed ending dates if harvest quotas are reached. Although a portion of the Allegan County GMU season will be held in January, GMUs are not included in the Late Season. Allegan County GMU Dates: November 3-11, 2001 and January 5-20, 2002 Bag Limit: 1 daily, 2 possession Harvest Quota: 1,100 Muskegon County Wastewater GMU Dates: November 3-13, 2001 and December 1-13, 2001 Bag Limit: 2 daily, 4 possession Harvest Quota: 350 Saginaw County GMU Dates: October 6-November 24, 2001 Bag Limit: 1 daily, 2 possession Harvest Quota: 2,000 Tuscola/Huron GMU Dates: October 6-November 24, 2001 Bag Limit: 1 daily, 2 possession Harvest Quota: 750 Late Season Although a portion of the Allegan County GMU will be held in January, GMUs are not included in the Late Season. South Zone Dates: January 5-February 3, 2002 Bag Limit: 5 daily, 10 possession
Copyright © 2002 State of Michigan

[Pushi]

How about a gobblin' goose?

[norraad]

The eggs are the best, the most eggy tasting egg ever.

Hard boiled one is a super nutrious handy go anywhere meal.

Try it, if we can't eat them, eat the eggs. The numbers will go down by attrition, just like gov. mandated retirement programs, hee hee.

A most perfect & free solution to a problem as ever there was, I should get a medal even.

[Don Joe]

the most eggy tasting egg ever

That's the best description I've seen yet. They taste "like eggs", but even moreso. Absolutely delicious, and big!

I gotta believe that if you could get them into stores, and get people to try them once, you'd really rake in the bucks.

[quietolong]

Won’t they just fly back to were they were taken from ?

[redhead]

"You must have some of those "La Cucaracha" horns in your neighborhood. If there's anything more maddening, I don't know what it is."

Let me help...How about a 17-year-boy driving around in his new car or pickup with a BOOMBOX taking up the entire trunk or truckbed? These things are an abomination. They must need an extra battery just to drive the speakers.

[toast]

We finally had to fence in the dooryard and leave the rest of the property to the geese so we could step out on the porch without having to step in a pile of poop.

I would suggest a semi-large dog. Labs don't hesitate to continue the chace into the water. Though you do substitute one kind of poop for another.

[toast]

chace=chase

[cajun-jack]

turkey eggs are great too...try a 3 egg omelet from turkey eggs...you had better be really hungry...I drive an 18 wheeler across mississippi and back 4 days a week and you can see the candian geese in ponds along side I-20....used to never see them except when flying over....haven't seen any hanging around where i live here in Louisiana, but then everbody knows that a "coonass" will eat anything!!

[norraad]

Yeah, they would definitly sell, I've never met anyone who didn't love them & said they put chicken eggs to shame.

It's almost metaphorical, like their numbers have increased all over to show us there's another way to do things, n'ést pas?

[redhead]

We just gave them away to a farmer who had a bigger farm. Then we got a black Lab, who never, and I mean NEVER, EVER used the yard for a bathroom. If he was tied up, he would hold it. Period. But as soon as he was turned loose, he headed for the tall grass!!