To save wild rice, hundreds of geese killed near Lake Superior
Kris Eilers assumed someone would reach out once the killing started.
Her instincts were spot on.
“Some people sent me photos of them capturing geese,” said Eilers, executive director of the St. Louis River Alliance. “I think people thought that they were strangling them right there.”
Officials from the Wisconsin and Minnesota departments of natural resources, along with federal officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, were not strangling geese in late June and early July this summer. They did, however, use carbon dioxide to suffocate the birds.
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