Posted by
Katy Grimes on Sunday, March 29, 2009 6:42:49 PM
Last year at this time, I was fighting the City parks department because domestice geese were disappearing rapidly from the ponds in Land Park. With the city ignoring the poaching taking place in city parks, I started to write about it. I started with a blog post on my
Fetching Jen: Missing Geese Update Then, Channel 10 caught wind of my story and did a little segment: Land Park Geese Going, Going... | News10.net | Sacramento ...
After doing battle with the City to get the penalty for hunting, chasing, killing, maiming waterfowl in City parks, they finally passed a penalty increase making it a misdemeanor to do so.
Today in The Sacramento Bee, in an op/ed piece
Graham Chisholm: AB 708 would slow a poaching epidemic ... a member of the California Audubon wrote about the very real problem of poaching in California. The rise in extreme poaching matches that of poaching overall. Violations rose from 6,538 in 2003 to 17,840 in 2007. Officials say the trend has been particularly tough on waterfowl, with sensitive species of geese and ducks taking the hardest hit. And I doubt that the author even knows that our parks are being hunted and poached.
Read all of my posts about this very real and weird problem. I have witnessed people stealing geese, and even selling htem out of the trunks of their cars to shady grocery stores.
Someone stole my geese. A couple of months ago, my geese, "Click" & "Clack," voluntarily moved from my backyard across the street to the big city park. There were other domestic geese living in the pond, and my geese joined them.
and the follow up
these were my geese, Click and Clack