What is the anticipated success of trapping?
Trapping success is really up to the behavior of the resident Canada geese. Refuge staff will assess, on a daily basis, the behavior and movement of birds and determine whether or not trapping will be effective. Further, humane treatment of any captured birds requires that all features of the operation must be in place (from equipment to processor) prior to beginning a trapping effort. Refuge staff hopes that the trapping will remove enough resident Canada geese so as to see immediate relief of the croplands and marshlands currently experiencing the heaviest overgrazing.
