<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Susan,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Thank you so much for spreading the word about the horrific proposal to slaughter the Crystal Lake's geese to supposedly attract more visitors. Don't they see how ironic it is that the Park houses Anita Purves Nature Center, whose main goal is to help children realize that humans are part of the nature, not its masters?! Can't we accept some "inconveniences" in return for the joy of watching goslings experience life under the protection of their parents, who're partners for life? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Please urge the commissioners to reject this proposal as cruel and of highly dubious effect. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Niloofar Shambayati</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:48 PM Susan Parenti via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>The Urbana Park
District Board of Commissioners is going to vote on Tuesday night May 12
whether or not they support the Park District's proposal to kill off 60–100 geese in Crystal Lake
Park, as a way to manage them and make a balance between number of geese and size/capacities of Park. (They intend to leave 20 geese alive). <br><div><br></div><div>You can see their proposal here : </div><div><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ" target="_blank">https://</a><a href="https://www.urbanaparks.org/projects/geese-population-and-management/" target="_blank">www.urbanaparks.org/projects/geese-population-and-management</a></div><div><br></div><div>Inside
the proposal is a 3 minute survey about how you feel about the geese in
the Park—the survey puts the geese in a negative light. But please do
the survey now, or at least before 6pm Tuesday night. You don't have to agree with my sentiments. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here is the survey: </div><div><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ" target="_blank">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ</a></div><div><br></div><div>How
do I feel about this? Daily I go to the Park to see/hear the
geese—they’re
the main attraction. The Park District secured a grant to improve Crystal Park, and they feel that the presence of the geese gets in the way of those improvements. . They say that lots of people won’t go to the Park
because of the geese—I don’t know anyone who feels that way. But,
mostly, for me the killing off of the geese is a human-centered way of thinking
(if it’s good for humans, then it’s fine) and that way of thinking I
want to stop as it’s a big component of why we have catastrophic climate
change. </div><div><br></div>“GEESEHERDS” I propose that given that
the swimming pool will be closed all summer, why doesn’t the Park
District use 2 ex-pool employees and make them GEESEHERDS—a variation on
shep(sheep)herds. These geessherds can take care of the geese, tend to
their problems, turn their poop into iron-rich compost. This way the
park District is free of taking care of the geese, and two people have a
job. </div><div><br></div><div>Please spread the word. We don’t have much time. <br></div><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"></font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Susan Parenti</b><br><i>Educational Coordinator </i><br><br></div><b>The School for Designing a Society </b><a href="http://www.designingasociety.net" target="_blank">www.designingasociety.net</a><br><br></div><i>Like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/designasociety" target="_blank">Facebook</a>!</i><br></div></div></div>
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