Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:47:31 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rob Gibbs Subject: resident canada goose project MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope this posting is not too off the subject. Many of your are aware of concerns about the growing population of resident Canada geese in the area. Montgomery County has joined with the Humane Society of the United States, an organization called "Geese Peace" and others to initiate an egg oiling program in the county. Oiling eggs is a humane method of population control and our long term goal is to stabilize and eventually reduce resident goose populations in the County. This process requires Federal and State permits which are being obtained by the County. We are looking for volunteers who would like to help with this program. Volunteers will be trained in oiling techniques and assigned locations in which to work. Volunteers will be responsible for locating nests and treating Canada Goose eggs as well as keeping accurate records for reports to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Most activity will take place on public and possibly commercial lands. There will be a training workshop on Tuesday evening March 20 in Boyds, Maryland (near Black Hill Regional Park). If anyone is interested please contact me directly via email and I will send you more detailed information. Sorry for the late notification but this is a late breaking program that needs to be implemented quickly as the nesting season is upon us. If you are interested in the program but cannot make the training please contact me also and we can possibly set up a second training session. Thanks PS - Fran, if this seems appropriate for the Citizen Science Section of the MOS web page please feel free to post it. Let me know if you do. Thanks. -- Rob Gibbs, Wildlife Ecologist Montgomery County Parks robgibbs@starpower.net ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================