https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/us/denver-canadian-geese-food-trnd/index.html
The city of Denver apparently has a new motto: Geese are not friends. They're food. Fed up with its growing goose problem, the city has implemented an initiative to round up its Canada geese and process them into food for "needy families," US Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Suzanne Bond said. "The resident goose population in this area is too large, which will cause many problems including overgrazing of grass, ornamental plants and agricultural crops; accumulation of droppings and feathers; disease, attacks on humans by aggressive birds; and the fouling of reservoirs, swimming areas, docks, lawns and recreational areas," Bond said.
Hors D'oeuvres?
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Good idea. Let's turn the hunter loose on a weekend in July or August (so as not to possibly conflict with useful wind) and convert as many geese to food as they can. Or just declare open season and tell everyone entering the park they can cook any goose they can bag.
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
I'm not sure if I saw this in a movie or Barrett took this video...
--- The Arrogant Jerk: Crabby and irritable since 1998.
I know this guy who removes the birds from Lake Lanier Islands. Once he told me that he tagged a couple of the birds. What he found was that he was removing the same birds over and over from LLI and getting paid each and every time for that task.
I guess this is government waste.
My suggestion is for them to collect all that green poop and make it into crayons for little kids to use while waiting for dinner at Cracker Barrel. At least if they collect the green stuff then the green stuff will stay off my sails, boom, my butt when downhauling and my shoes.
PeelSkid
Waterfowl
Canada goose and teal hunting is allowed on Lake Lanier:
The season for Lake Lanier is generally in September.
The bag limit is 5 geese per day (10 in possession) and 4 teal per day (8 in possession)
Hunting is allowed on the lake except:
Within 1000 feet of any dock, house, bridge, road, boat ramp, marina etc.
Alan
Alan - sorry deleted you post by accident. Please repost.
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
What? Someone hit a post by accident? I hope everyone is okay..
--- The Arrogant Jerk: Crabby and irritable since 1998.
Alan posted some great info regarding the fact that we can hunt geese legally at the lake, so I was trying to organize a posse to help eliminate the goose problem. But that's when everything went up in smoke. It really ought to be pretty easy to turn a bunch annoying live geese into dead ducks....But we need the rules, which Alan posted.
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
They all looked Canadian too me officer.
eh!
Alan
So - no prohibition against geese hunting (or as I like to call it goossasinitation) at windsurfing launches. We might even just go Negan on them and not bother with duck calls, shot guns, etc. Heck - one of William's extra foils would probably work just fine.
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What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
We're lucky are problem are geese. In Florida (of course, Florida) it's iguanas
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/us/iguanas-florida-overpopulation-trnd/index.html
I can help!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0VpnA1QdXc
PeelSkid
Scratch the Florida thing and don't let anyone from Florida come hunt for geese
https://fox28spokane.com/florida-iguana-hunter-shoots-pool-worker-mistaking-him-for-iguana/
"A Florida homeowner is horrified when an iguana hunter shoots a pool maintenance worker instead of a giant lizard with a pellet gun.
According to the Boca Raton Police Department, a neighbor hired the iguana hunter to kill nuisance iguanas in the area.
Scratch the Florida thing and don't let anyone from Florida come hunt for geese
https://fox28spokane.com/florida-iguana-hunter-shoots-pool-worker-mistaking-him-for-iguana/
"A Florida homeowner is horrified when an iguana hunter shoots a pool maintenance worker instead of a giant lizard with a pellet gun.
According to the Boca Raton Police Department, a neighbor hired the iguana hunter to kill nuisance iguanas in the area.
Kind of hard to see how Dog the Iguana Hunter confused a pool maintenance guy for a lizard.
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.
Randy, you're the man for the job. I recall you having a windsurfing board with a paddle mount. You used it in the winter as backup in case the wind died when you were sailing alone. That paddle mount should easily convert into a rifle rack for blasting those pesky geese.
All these crazy posts point out how desperate windsurfers get during the summer doldrums, myself included.
Barrett
Yeah - the way the forecast is looking I'm starting to think there is an off season - and it's now.....
What happens in a black hole stays in a black hole.