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Citizen complaint of the day: Riverside park overrun by geese, skateboarders
By adamg on Wed, 08/12/2020 - 4:38pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about conditions in the Nashua Street Park, which runs along the Charles River behind Nashua Street:
This park is overridden with geese, they've eaten all of the grass and we can no longer picnic here. It's covered in feces and also often has large amounts of trash due to the skateboarders that frequent it. There has always been a large ugly yellow floatation device along the waterfront too. It really needs some TLC!
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Didn't the State Police
Do battle with the pesky skateboarders a couple of years ago and surrender to the Anarchists?
geese
Geese have completely ruined the parks as usable public spaces in the Fenway. They are a federally protected species.
I wish someone would file legislation to give humans protection from the geese.
btw
The friends of the Esplanade use a team of trained collies to chase the geese away. So, naturally, they fly to the Fenway, a considerably less affluent neighborhood than the Back Bay, where they can destroy the parks in peace.
You're joking, right? There
You're joking, right? There are tons of geese at the Public Garden! Also, Fenway is quite expensive... maybe not for people like yourself with deep pockets of course. Furthermore, Fenway Fens is the perfect place for geese: they've got the windy muddy river, Victory Gardens, plenty of open space, lots vegetation for food and for nesting, and people who frequent the Fens feed the geese. It's much more attractive for geese in Fenway than anything in the Back Bay.
Great, but
Geese aren’t federally protected.
They are somewhat protected
To legally hunt Canada geese, you need the federal and state permits, and you have to do it in hunting season.
There are government programs to cull the goose population, but it's not as simple as someone deciding that there are too many geese somewhere. You can't just poison them, even if you could figure out a way to do that and not risk harming any of the many birds that are federally protected.
Still not federally protected
If someone grabbed a goose on the Esplanade and wrung it’s neck, they would not face federal charges.
Now, there would most likely be state charges, but that is due to the means of execution, and possibly violating other hunting regulations. Same as grey squirrels (which also have a hunting season.)
Yes, they are federally
Yes, they are federally protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
https://www.fws.gov/birds/faqs.php
Yes, but
They can be hunted (see page 40) which implies that killing them, in the right circumstances, is okay.
Not true
People have been charged with federal offenses under the migratory bird act for doing just that.
Sure about that?
Relevant law is the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918.
https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/migtrea.html
https://www.fws.gov/birds/policies-and-regulations/laws-legislations/mig...
Canada Goose listed here:
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=b85587342ebe4f607983dfb6d1e074...
Penalties described here:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/707
Who can enforce this law?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/706
So keep your hands off the geese. Or go to jail.
Yes, they are
"Geese" isn't a species, but if we're talking about our ubiquitous Canada Geese, they are: https://fws.gov/birds/policies-and-regulations/laws-legislations/migrato...
It's almost like the old days...
When cattle grazed on the Common and horse drawn carriages would leave a trail of droppings on the streets
now
the horseshit just comes outta those studios at the top of Park Street
lol
complaining about skateboarders frequenting the pathways which lead to a skate park is pretty special. guess they're supposed to teleport there?
If the problem is people
If the problem is people skateboarding where they're not supposed to, no teleportation is necessary. They can walk and carry their skateboards.
Or if the problem is littering by skateboarders, they can just not litter.
See? No teleportation necessary.
place is called eggs
for all u dweebz
#eggsreport
Springtime project
https://youtu.be/2CLIL-381Lw
This is an older video but explains what needs to happen every spring: egg oiling. It really falls on the land owner or whomever manages the property to do it.
2020
Not sure they did any oiling this year - there were a ton of goslings this Spring.
Geese on skateboards.
Wow.
Not a crime
A little goose poop is nether a crime nor a song by The Beach Boys.