I cannot understand why the Canada Goose is protected under federal law. There are so many in Stewart Park that I think about taking one down with a net or a bolo but (1) I could get in trouble and (2) I find commercial goose meat to be disgusting (when they talk about eating a goose in a Dickens novel I gag) and can't imagine a wild goose is palatable at all.

(I do have reports though that the eggs are great, I think commercial goose eggs make the best Pirogi, and that someone was able to take two eggs from a nest year after year and even though they hissed bitterly the same pair would come back again year after year.)