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Falls Township’s efforts to reduce the number of geese at the community’s largest public park continue.
At Monday evening’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting, S&S Wildlife was hired unanimously to provide geese control services at Falls Township Community Park at a price not to exceed $22,000.
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S&S Wildlife will begin a “10-month hazing effort, which involves aggressive action on foot, noise, lasers and lights. It will be carried out in conjunction with a 10-week service involving Border Collies being used to train geese to stay off specified areas. Most of the efforts would be undertaken during daytime hours,” the township said in a statement.
Falls Township has undertaken previous efforts since 2015.
Falls Township Parks and Recreation Director Brian Andrews said the park had 100 or more geese residing there when the program started, but the population has dropped to 20 or 30.
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“It was bad,” Andrews said. “If we let it go, the problem’s going to come back worse.”
There is an option of killing as many as 25 geese, but officials said they have not yet had to do that.
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Fallsington Guido Mariani mentioned to the Supervisors a device that is solar powered and can deter geese in the area of Martha Drive and Martha Circle. He also suggested using it in the community park.
“It’s a good test area for that,” Supervisors Vice Chairman Jeff Boraski said of Martha Drive and Circle.
The Supervisors asked for more information for their meeting next month.
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Canada geese, which are commonly seen at the park, can be considered a nuisance and leave their droppings behind. The Canada goose was once decimated by hunting and loss of living environment. A successful effort to grow the population took place decades ago and they resettled in large numbers across the country. Canada geese prefer grass and tend to graze is areas with large open spaces and within sight of water to allow them room to escape predators, according to the Humane Society.
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