The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is eliminating its goose relocation program, and will rely instead on lethal force through a federal government contract to deal with nuisance geese.
“The department has already decided on these programmatic changes,” Barb Avers, the DNR’s waterfowl and wetlands specialist, told Michigan Outdoor News. “There’s a number of reasons we need to make this change.”
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Michigan DNR will no longer relocate nuisance geese, relying instead on euthanizing problem birds
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