{"id":4316,"date":"2011-06-03T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T11:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2011-06-03T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T12:50:49","slug":"morning-read-are-these-geese-cooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/03\/morning-read-are-these-geese-cooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Are these geese cooked?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corrected:\u00a0 It’s carbon dioxide…not monoxide.<\/p>\n

On Lake Champlain, it’s cormorants.\u00a0 In Watertown, it’s crows.\u00a0 And in Saranac Lake, it’s a big flap over geese.<\/p>\n

An overabundance of the birds has sparked a controversy of sorts as Saranac Lake school officials plan to “euthanize” a flock of geese this June using a carbon dioxide chamber.<\/p>\n

This from Chris Knight’s report in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My concern is the kids,” said board member Esther Arlan. “That’s my top priority. It’s not the geese. And I’m not going to change my feelings.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Former State Supreme Court judge and volunteer football coach Jan Plumadore listed the variety of diseases and ailments geese can spread through their droppings – bacteria like E. coli and viruses such as avian influenza – based on his own online research.<\/p>\n

“Nobody wants to hurt animals, but it seems to me that this board took a very responsible and very informed vote last time,” Plumadore said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Others felt that the risks were being overblown and argued that killing the animals is inhumane.\u00a0 “I don’t think it’s a good lesson for us to kill our problems,” said Mary Scollin, a registered nurse.<\/p>\n

So what do you think?\u00a0 Are these big feathered pests that need to be thinned?\u00a0 Or do you shudder at the idea of gasing birds that chose the wrong field for their summer stopover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Corrected:\u00a0 It’s carbon dioxide…not monoxide. On Lake Champlain, it’s cormorants.\u00a0 In Watertown, it’s crows.\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4317,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}