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have be adequately tested or documented in the literature. This project <br />will test further removal and translocation. <br />Objectives: <br />1. To assist with development of population objectives, i. e., the <br />acceptable number of geese at specific sites within the city. <br />2. To model populations and estimate removal levels needed to attain <br />and maintain desired population levels. <br />3. Provide technical expertise and participate in public hearings and <br />assist with public relations. <br />4. To coordinate and do goose removal in 1999 and 2000 as population <br />control procedures. <br />5. To monitor population_ levels <br />population reduction effectiveness. <br />from 1999 and 2000 to ascertain <br />Methods: <br />Mode]. -Much of the data necessary to construct a model have been <br />gathered from X973 to X999 for the Metropolitan Twin Cities Canada <br />Goose populations (Sayler 1977, Cooper and Keefe 1997 Parameters <br />that have been measured include participation in breeding by sex and age <br />class, age related productivity, effect of re- pairing, emigration and <br />immigration, gosling, subadult, and adult survival. Additional data are <br />needed on the effects of density reduction on breeding participation, <br />dispersal, and survival. These data are being obtained by capturing and <br />relocating flightless, immature geese and processing adult geese for <br />human food, and subsequently capturing and removing the breeding <br />segment of the population the next summer (Cooper and Keefe 1997). <br />The effect of the lowering the density con survival and dispersal of wiH be <br />ascertained from neckband re- observation (Cox inack 1964; Cooper 1975. <br />Cooper, In Press). The model wild be based on the Kaplan -Meier (1958) <br />method. <br />