The following quotes are from a New Hampshire Union Leader Article, titled Decision to euthanize NH geese creates flap. The commentary is mine. The photo was taken earlier this year when a pair of geese visited our pond.

On June 23, officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services were paid by two property owners to round up and euthanize geese that had been fouling their properties. The federal government refused to identify the property owners.

They rounded up these geese and their offspring and killed them.

Dick Wright of Newbury, who lives near the lake, wrote letters to the editor of New Hampshire newspapers last week decrying the practice.
He said the problem is property owners who create large lawns and fake beaches that attract the birds and detour them from their migratory route.

I find this piece very interesting.

Jared Teutsch, president of the New Hampshire Lakes Association, said conflict between the Canada geese and lakefront property owners is on the increase across the state.

He said native shores of brush are in some cases being replaced by lawns and man-made beaches. That is a welcome mat for migratory geese to settle down and nest. Once born here, they return and bear their own young and have life spans of up to 25 years.

So here is a case when we (meaning humans) are not destroying another creatures habitat but instead are creating something they inviting and hospitable and that’s not good either?

There is this desire to control…that is just HUGE. I think it involves issues of mortality and impermanence.

What do you think about it?

Peace,
Kelly