I read of the population explosion of geese in the suburbs (Page 1, April 9) and find it ironic and humorous that in the act of developing forest and farmland into vast green expanses of nourishing grass, suburban residents have opened up these same green expanses to settlement by hordes of content Canada geese.
One of the options mentioned for dealing with this problem, short of increased hunting quotas or slaughter, is the shaking of goose eggs so that they will not hatch. Why not stomp them all underfoot, an equally barbaric approach? Provided that they do not pose a dangerous hazard to suburban residents (the image of said residents fleeing before angry geese is uproarious to a city dweller), the geese should be left alone.
Basically, the poor inconvenienced golfers and suburban office workers afflicted with the goose population explosion might pipe down and count their blessings. The geese were struggling to live in undeveloped areas long before humans experienced their population explosion and unwittingly developed a paradise for the geese to return to.
