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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: No-Goose Grass Msg# 1144054
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I just called Mike Hooks at the Maryland Food Bank in Salisbury and he confirmed the Food Bank did indeed receive the geese killed in Ocean Pines a few years ago as a part of the program administered by the Department of Agriculture. [bold added]
Killing the 300 or so geese and the subsequent distribution of the cleaned and packaged geese via the Maryland Food Bank was the environmentally friendly thing to do, it fed humans, and it diminished greatly the goose poop users of the pond are had to wade through. Good news Thanks for the follow up, and the correction !!! Too many times there's been lack of attention to avoiding excessive populations of whatever varieties. For example lack of forestry maintenance, in addition to the animals. A California problem acknowledged by some wildfire experts. YET, locally the sterilization idea for Md's Assateague horses seems a good step. [but I haven't read much about that lately]. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I don't think that meat donation actually happened. It was supposed to but as I recall our GM then, Mr. Baily, never informed the Food Bank that the meat was coming and the food bank never actually received processed meat. As a board member, you should do some research before making such statements, and apparently, your statement is based on what was said by the committee "goose expert" at the last ENA meeting. Your so-called "goose expert" was wrong. I just called Mike Hooks at the Maryland Food Bank in Salisbury and he confirmed the Food Bank did indeed receive the geese killed in Ocean Pines a few years ago as a part of the program administered by the Department of Agriculture. Killing the 300 or so geese and the subsequent distribution of the cleaned and packaged geese via the Maryland Food Bank was the environmentally friendly thing to do, it fed humans, and it diminished greatly the goose poop users of the pond are had to wade through. The resident goose population around the pond has increased since then, but it is not yet at level requiring another killing of the flock. |
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