[Peace] to keep a balance, Urb Park proposes to kill 60-100 Crystal lake geese-- read & take survey

[Niloofar Shambayati]

Susan,

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?

Please urge the commissioners to reject this proposal as cruel and of
highly dubious effect.

Niloofar Shambayati

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 5:48 PM Susan Parenti via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> 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).
>
> You can see their proposal here :
> https:// <https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ>
> www.urbanaparks.org/projects/geese-population-and-management
>
> 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.
>
> Here is the survey:
> https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K6R2HWQ
>
> 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.
>
> “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.
>
> Please spread the word. We don’t have much time.
>
>
>
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