Nuisance Canada geese get killed, not moved, under new DNR guidelines

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(Detroit Free Press) The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is adopting a new strategy this year for dealing with large populations of Canada geese conflicting with humans in urban areas: No longer will the birds be rounded up and taken to a state natural area. They will be killed instead.

This has some local wildlife protection advocates crying foul, saying much more can be done to fix goose-human conflicts before large-scale culling.

"They are going to be killing them all, and it's not fair," said Karen Stamper, who lives in Oakland County's Commerce Township, an area filled with small inland lakes that attract the geese. She volunteers with the nonprofit animal protection advocacy organization In Defense of Animals based in San Rafael, California. ..............(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/03/14/nuisance-canada-geese-get-killed-not-moved-under-new-dnr-guidelines/82267671007/