HARTFORD, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont golf course has put off a hunt for Canada geese after an outcry from some landowners and area residents.
Quechee Club’s property manager Ken Lallier said Tuesday’s hunt was postponed and a variety of options are being considered again to control the birds.
The Valley News reports that the club received emails, calls and social media appeals urging it to try other approaches. Those included harassing the birds with herding dogs and letting grass grow higher around ponds and the river to dissuade the birds from straying onto greens and fairways.
State wildlife officials say the planned hunt as part of the resident goose hunting season was a sound management practice done at other golf courses in Vermont.
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