A $10,000 grant from the Okanagan Basin Water Board will help ensure progress managing the Valley’s Canada Goose population continues into 2011. The Okanagan Valley Goose Management Program received the funding from the water board to heighten awareness about health issues related to limiting the goose population. Municipal governments throughout the Okanagan partner to deliver the program. The committee works to reduce the risk of potential human harm due to contamination of water and other public resources. Efforts focus on reducing goose populations to naturally sustainable levels, where sufficient native habitat exists to support the goose population without problematic use of public park and urban lands, and educating people about problems with wild geese.
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From the Okanagan Valley Goose website:
The 2010 Addling Season is Complete!
Again, thanks to public input we addled over 1000 eggs (1269 to be exact). In a high survival area such as the Okanagan, that number is equivalent to approximately 950 geese not joining the goose population. In March crews completed pairs surveys to identify where nesting would likely occur. During the last week of March and throughout April, the egg-addling crews worked hard to find and humanely addle eggs throughout the Okanagan Valley. Now, over the past four seasons, over 5000 eggs have been addled! That translates into at least 4000 new geese NOT entering the Okanganan Canada Goose Population, not to mention the offspring of all those geese in the future…and so on, and so on…
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