Howdy Joan, My long tine pal-O-mine. As for geese, most ducks and geese are at fifty years highs. This is in thanks ONLY to the the federal government and sportsman (hunters). We sportsman raised the money ducks.org, pressured Washington, bought nesting/resting land for game in Canada and the U.S., etc.
Now we have a problem with snow geese. There are so many of them that they are doing major damage to the tundra. Canadian Geese are getting close to where the flock is too large. If sportsman can not reduce the number of the birds, Mother Nature will. So far to date, there are not enough sportsman to put a dent in the population. They raise the number of birds you can bag but the birds just multiply.
Mother Nature will take care of the problem when it gets too bad. Avian cholera emtc.nbs.gov
and other nasties are how Mother Nature often takes care of flocks that get too large. Kill offs of hundreds of thousands of birds are COMMON during a major break out.
So as in all things in life, things often are not as they seem. Are there less birds or do you now live in a bigger city which birds fly around? Is the sportsman a guy out to kill something or a person who understands nature, and that he is a management tool? The truth is he understands that a duck or goose is better on the table than dead in a marsh next to 500 thousand of his friends.
Joe and I both have hunted the Salton Sea in the southern California desert, now keep in mind this is just ONE set of numbers from ONE place out of the millions that birds use r1.fws.gov
I can't speak for Joe but I post about hunting to educate the public that's is bull$hited by the press and liberal tree and bunny huggers who know JACK about the real world. This is the real world emtc.nbs.gov
Look at the numbers of these birds from ONE place and think of the death they had. A slow, painful, cook in the sun, death. Makes a quick blast from a shot gun seem like an easy (and useful) way to go.
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