Got geese?
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- February
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The state’s resident Canada goose population is at more than 200,000 birds and expected to climb, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation  especially if no one does anything about it. 
To that end, the DEC is offering local governments and landowners information on how to control goose populations on their own property and holding a special goose hunting season starting Saturday.
In addition, the state is pointing folks who may be interested in addling eggs (Coating the eggs with oil or puncturing them with a skewer and leaving them in the nest. The eggs won’t hatch but the goose won’t lay new ones.) to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. There, they can register to do such work.
More state information on goose control can be found here. Information from a goose-advocacy group is here.
(Photo:Peter Carr/TJN)
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
Laura Incalcaterra covers the environment, open space and zoning and planning issues for The Journal News. A Boston College graduate, Laura grew up in Rockland, attended East Ramapo schools and has worked for The Journal News since 1993. Laura has written features and covered North Rockland, crime, government and a host of other issues.
Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
The overpopulation of Canada goose is a problem with many possible solutions. Oiling eggs and hunting goose however, is not the best solution. In using these methods, the symptoms are being treated, but the problem is not. The goose will return year after year and lay more eggs, and more will come to replace the ones that have been hunted. Permanent solutions are available to make areas unattractive to geese. A big plus is that these solutions are green and anti-cruel; neither the birds or the environment is harmed. For further information anyone with goose problems should look into the work of Dr. Philip Whitford of Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He has conducted many studies on goose behavior and his research has led to the development of products such as Goosebuster; a very effective and permanent Goose deterrent.
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