General News: Cornwall Geese Meeting Update
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| photo by Jim Lennon. Geese Management Committee seated around table with Chair Tom DiCarrado in right foreground and Town Board Members Peter Russell (Committee Liaison), Helen Bunt and former Board Member Mary Beth Green-Krafft seated in chairs to right, discuss the Cornwall Geese. |
March 13, 2014
by Jim Lennon
The Cornwall Geese Management Committee, which met last night (3/12) will issue a preliminary interim report to the Cornwall Town Board by April 1st (April Fools Day) Work Session specifying Committee recommendations that the Town should take to alleviate both the sanitary and Stewart Flight Pattern problems due to their very large numbers in the Riverlight Park - Rings Pond area has reportedly created.
Per Goose Management Committee Chair, Director of the Hudson Valley ASPCA and Cornwall resident, Tom DiCarrado, specific recommendation are to be made which include (1) addling by the USDA without cost to the Town, and possibly other volunteers (egg oiling with vegetable oil to prevent hatching and which fools the mother goose into believing that the eggs are still viable thus eliminating her from laying other eggs such as would occur if the eggs were destroyed), (2) planting of vegetation, (3) public education regarding the deadly pitfalls of feeding the geese, other wild birds and animals, and (4) park and pond area feces cleanup, as well as possibly other available options.
The Town Board, as per Committee liaison and Town Board Member Peter Russell, and Town Board Member Helen Bunt, both of whom were in attendance, with concurrence of the Town Attorney, stated that the USDA is authorized at this time to enter Town property for geese management purposes, which include addling.
The Town Board is expected to discuss the issue and receive public comment at the April 1st Work Session.
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