Senator seeks to allow goose kills (Kennedy, federal, news, famous)

[Greatday]

The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday proposed making it easier to round up geese from a federal refuge near Kennedy Airport and kill them, an idea that's meeting opposition from wildlife advocates.


Read more: Senator seeks to allow goose kills near NY airport after multiple collisions with planes | Fox News

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

Originally Posted by Greatday

The problem of birds living near some of the nation's busiest airports is coming under renewed scrutiny after two emergency landings in a week and more than three years after the famous ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday proposed making it easier to round up geese from a federal refuge near Kennedy Airport and kill them, an idea that's meeting opposition from wildlife advocates.


Read more: Senator seeks to allow goose kills near NY airport after multiple collisions with planes | Fox News

Good for Senator Gillibrand, it's nice to see some signs of common sense out of NY. Something needs to be done before a planeload of people, and perhaps untold more on the ground, are killed.

[Bulldogdad]

Good feed the geese to the homeless shelters.

[Dockside]

Originally Posted by Bulldogdad

Good feed the geese to the homeless shelters.

Good idea. They've rendered almost every playground and open field around here unusable. This is not an endangered species.