On the recordSeptember 14, 1998
the wintering Canada goose population has increased ten times in the last twenty years, to 250,000 geese in the Lower Columbia River and Willamette Valley regions. The result has been large numbers of geese grazing on private agricultural fields of wheat, corn, grass seed, and many other crops, leading to huge financial losses for farmers. Farmers have been meeting since the early 1980s with local wildlife officials to create coordinated resource management plans to relieve depredation, but with no results. In 1997, the first Pacific Flyway Council plan was assembled to deal with agricultural depredation by migratory Canada geese. Farmers met with state and federal wildlife officials and other interested parties from Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and California to create a plan that all parties could agree to--as a first step. This funding will implement some of the priorities of that plan.
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