Michigan won't exterminate geese -- so what's the next step?

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Neal Rubin
Detroit Free Press


As a mommy goose and daddy goose escorted five adorable goslings across a neighborhood pond and onto the grass in Farmington Hills the other day, I had to wonder:

At what point do they teach the kiddies to be malevolent bastards?

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in tribute to the foul temper, prodigious pooping and other grating characteristics of Canada geese, had announced in March that it was planning to collect and whack thousands of them, rather than just relocate them and let them get back to the business of creating further objectionable versions of themselves.

The public squawked, and as our Jalen Williams reported March 13, the DNR has decided to instead just speak to them sternly and return to the controls that don't seem to do much, but don't involve goose murder. ...................(more)

https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/neal-rubin/2025/05/17/michigan-dnr-not-euthanizing-geese-fight-infestation/83657846007/