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City moves geese from streets to food shelves <br />Posted on Sun, Jui. 02, 2006 <br />City moves geese from streets to food shelves <br />Abundant population becomes nuisance at beach, golf course <br />BY NANCY YANG <br />Pioneer Press <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />Beach-goers can't swim because of them, motorists have to halt i n traffic for them, and they are starting to chase goifers �t <br />the public course. <br />Geese have been flocking all over Woodbury, and the city this week is rolling out phase two of its plan to get rid of them. <br />Workers from The Canada Goose Program made a first sweep in tr�id-Jun� of the Eagle Valley Golf Course, the Carver Lake <br />Beach area and the Valley Creek Road and Radio Drive intersection — which is near several trails and open-space areas — <br />netting almost 200 geese. They will return this week to round up any remaining birds and donate the meat to focaf food <br />shelves. <br />It's a solution Wnodbury has turned to before, in 1998 and in 2002. <br />The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources introduced trapping and processing in 1995 as a pilot program to control the <br />metro area's burgeoning goose population. <br />DNR officials said at the time that the agency was running out of places to relocate geese. So rather than simpiy kill and bury <br />them, wildlife officials decided to take advantage of their food value. <br />The removal project is a city initiative, and birds have been removed only from public property. Woodbury officials said they <br />initially explored other options to controi the goose population. <br />"We contemplated whether dogs would be reasonable, but we decided not to do that," said Bob Kiatt, parks and recreation <br />director. "You'd have a dog running around loose, and all that does is drive the geese to another iocation." <br />The problem intensifies when geese return to the same feeding and nesting area each year, driving up the popuiation. <br />Shaun Peitier, a manager at the city-owned Eagle Valley Golf Course, said this is the first time the geese have breached the <br />course. <br />"It's a fairly significant problem from the customer's perspective," Peitier said. "(The geese) get mean. They literally chase the <br />players around." <br />The geese also leave a lot of droppings on the course and tend to congregate on the greens. <br />The problems also are persistent on roads and at the Garver Lake Beach area. <br />City officials said the birds had to be removed from the beach area because of health concerns; their droppings could have <br />polluted the water. <br />Meanwhile, geese crossing the street have forced motorists to stop, creating traffic hazards in busy areas, Klatt said. <br />Klatt said he has received a phone call from a resident concerned about the removal program, but he said he has received <br />several calls from residents complaining about the geese and requesting the city take action. <br />Nancy Yang covers the Washington County communities of Woodbury, Oakdaie, Cottage Grove, Lake Elmo, Newport, St. Pau[ <br />Park and Grey Cloud Island Township. She can be reached at nyang@pioneerpress.comor 651-228-5480. <br />y�� �• �� �.: 1� � L "L\' .S:V� � NIrC Skl�'.M1 ��'1::_• .�.�� :� : �. } ��i.L• � M1M1� <br />�ttp��ur�rv��.t+��inciti��.�arr�rrnld�pi�r�e�ss�l�������.�,crM'�rrap]ar�=c�nt��i��ri�a�l�]���riritst�.j�p �l�x��00b <br />
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