Laptop Battery They've tried everything -- chemical sprays, border collies, model speedboats, oiling eggs in nests to make them infertile and changing the habitat to discourage geese from flocking to the parks. Nothing has worked.
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Thinkpad So yesterday morning, federal wildlife and Union County parks workers began herding flocks of Canada geese into a collection area at Rahway River Park in Rahway.
There has been a huge population boom of Canada geese in the last 10 years, according to Atzert. In 1990, there were 238, 13 states from Virginia to Maine. The most recent count puts the Canada goose population at more than one million. New Jersey has roughly 85, 000 resident Canada geese. half, Coppen said.
Microsoft The next stop for the geese was the back of specially equipped pickup trucks, where they were asphyxiated with carbon dioxide gas.
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Laptop Computers The carcasses were then taken to an undisclosed landfill for disposal as part of a controversial last-ditch effort being taken this week by Union County to address what officials say are health and nuisance problems caused by the birds' droppings on public parkland and golf courses.
Over the past 30 to 40 years, Canada geese have learned that food is so readily available in places like the Forsythe refuge that they don't move out during the winter months, Atzert said. called resident Canada geese make a steady diet of the refuge's lush, green grasses. But in the early part of the fall, when the muddy banks of the marsh should be overgrown with vegetation, the geese have already eaten away large patches of grass. Other birds, like migratory Canada geese, have little food to rebuild their fat stores, Atzert said.
Laptop Computer The predawn scene may play out again this morning somewhere in the six other parks and recreational areas being targeted under a $20,000 contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fish and Wildlife Service to destroy up to 2,700 adult birds over three days this week.
For seven years he tended the flocks of his master on Slemish, a mountain in the County, 1, 437 feet high, east of Ballymena.
Desktop Computer State experts said there are 96,800 geese living year-round in New Jersey. The 11- to 12-pound adult birds can defecate as much as 27 times a day, producing a pound of waste per goose a day.
Notebooks The problem at Rahway River Park is the same at the other county facilities, where goose droppings have blanketed fishing areas, ballfields and picnic areas, creating a public health hazard, county officials said.
Lenovo The program is expected to be finished by the end of the week, said county officials, who have declined to say exactly when and where the daily collections and gassings are being conducted to avoid confrontations with animal rights activists and coverage by the media.
Hard Drive Union County is pressing ahead with the project despite an outcry from the community and animal rights groups angered by the method being used to destroy the geese.
Travelstar "We feel this is draconian and that the county has not sufficiently addressed the causal factors behind the goose problem," said Susan Russell of the Center for Animal Protection in Rumson.
Gateway Attorney William Strazza, who has been retained by Russell to explore legal action, said he will know by early today whether he has enough legal ammunition to seek an injunction in state Superior Court in Elizabeth.
Laptop Parts Strazza said he spoke with county officials and knows the gassing started yesterday, but he has no idea how many birds were destroyed.
Software "There are a number of nonlethal alternatives, including lasers, dog decoys with moving parts that they can use instead," Russell said.
Hard Drives Union County Manager George Devanney said the administration has received a dozen calls about the efforts, most from people opposed to the gassing.
Electronics "We have made it clear that we have exhausted every known method of trying to remove the geese from the parks and failed," he said. "We consider this is to be a last resort."
Canon Devanney said many calls and e-mails received by the county have been supportive.
Desktop Pc "If you were to go out and talk to someone trying to enjoy the parks while stepping in goose droppings, or talk to golfers who are being hissed at by angry geese as they are trying to play a round, they will tell you we are doing the right thing," he said.
Desktop Computers Reducing the number of geese goes beyond Union County. The state Wildlife Service has issued 37 permits this year authorizing people, organizations, government agencies and corporations who want to reduce the local flocks, and 37 more are pending.
Think Pad Last year, Hanover in Morris County asphyxiated hundreds of geese around its sewage plant, and faced the same public criticism.
Repair "We got some complaints last year from a few local people who expressed their concerns. I was getting some e-mails you wouldn't believe, but we told them we had done everything else possible, except for having the dogs," said Michael C. Wynne, executive director of the Hanover Sewerage Authority.
Data Recovery "We were at the point where we had between 400 and 500 geese a few years ago, which was a lot when you consider the size of our site," he said. "The goose droppings got so bad along the roadway here that people's cars would slide off."
Cisco Gassing cut the population to about 100 birds, he said.
Keyboard "I understand people have concerns, but (the gassing program) was our very last resort and it has been successful so far," Wynne said.
Monitor By Robert E. Misseck
Star-Ledger - 7/4/2003
Topic: Birding
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