OCEAN PINES – Ocean Pines officials are exploring the use of a specialty turf grass to deter geese.
Last week, Director Tom Janasek, board liaison for the Environmental and Natural Assets Advisory Committee, presented the Ocean Pines Association (OPA) Board of Directors with a proposal to test FlightTurf, a low-maintenance turf grass, at the North Gate pond. He said the product is made to deter wildlife, including geese and deer.
“What the committee was recommending or asking for is to do a test area at the North Gate pond where the geese congregate and see how it works over a year …,” he said. “What it is is patented grass that geese don’t like the flavor of. That’s all it is.”
In 2018, the association brought in officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to euthanize nearly 300 Canada geese in an effort to mitigate problems relating to excrement and environmental pollution. That decision, however, drew the ire of some Pines residents protesting the “wholesale slaughter” of the birds without the community’s knowledge.
In his remarks last week, Janasek said the advisory committee had explored all alternatives in dealing with the community’s goose problem. That research, he said, led them to FlightTurf.
Need to place it everywhere or else. Chaaaa ching.
Eat them. Make it a sought-after local delicacy that tourists can’t get enough of. I hear that smoked and flavored goose jerky is tasty.
Make down pillows, sell them as souvenirs.
Dumb idea. The geese will just move over to the homeowner’s lawn and poop on them. The only solution is to kill the geese.