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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:15 PM Original message |
NYT: New York State Plans to Eliminate (capture and gas) 170,000 Canada Geese |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. I will admit that there is a resident Canada Goose issue in New York state... |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:43 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Michigan also has a huge Canada goose population, but the state's goal.... |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:19 PM Response to Original message |
2. Sad. Canadian geese are magnificent creatures. |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:27 PM Response to Original message |
3. Anything in the way of mankind must be destroyed! n/t |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. This was a local issue. |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Donated to 'local food banks' is the only positive response i can give to thtis whole operation. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:14 AM Response to Reply #8 |
37. I was ambivalent about the whole mess. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. My right-wing neighbor shoots bottle rockets at them |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. He was firing them at your pets? |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:37 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. He was firing them at the geese just off the back of our properties. |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. If it's a choice between geese and people, I choose people |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:07 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. 219 people killed worldwide in 22 years? |
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Doeed (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
24. If not for the skill of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:47 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Damn straight. Welcome to DU!!! n/t |
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Doeed (83 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:48 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Thank you |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:33 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. It's not. If we're going to put a value on a species based on it's benefit to other life |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 10:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. +infinity. nt |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
29. I'm with you |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. Well they shouldn't bury them for sure |
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mopinko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #9 |
41. +1 |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. Disgusting. They are also impacted by the oil spill. Why not quit feeding them? |
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marybourg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. And all of them have been tried and none of them work. nt |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:08 AM Response to Reply #15 |
36. link? |
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marybourg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:46 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Didn't learn this from a "link", but from 46 years of living in N.Y. nt. |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. Eighty years ago when I was growing up on the St Lawrence River in Northen New York SIate, |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
13. Its time to deport them. |
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krispos42 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
14. Hundreds of thousands of goose hunters will pay to do this. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
16. This is ...no. No. |
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Ignis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. It's pretty awful timing, isn't it? |
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Alameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
17. Canadian Goose is delicious..... |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
30. That's what I was thinking, why not use them as food vs burying n/t |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 10:21 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I suspect they won't be edible the way they plan to kill them. |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 11:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Well, yeah, but I would hesitate to guess there's an alternative way |
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Alameda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Of course there are alternitve methods......with all the homeless |
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Renew Deal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:32 PM Response to Original message |
18. We must eliminate the Geesean threat |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
22. Sick beyond belief. We cause enough harm to wildlife as it is. If we kill them, then |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
23. Why don't they wait until they see what the results of the migration |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:57 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. they do`t fly south anymore.... |
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msanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
26. Bye, Shitbags....... |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-23-10 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
31. here in illinois canadian geese were hunted near extinction by the early 50s |
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marybourg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:48 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. Were they eaten? nt. |
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