Goose depredation permit info for farmers
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By Marie Gadotti, Chair of the OFB Goose Depredation Committee and President of Columbia County Farm Bureau Posted Feb. 27, 2020: In recent months, I`ve had several inquiries from farmers about how to obtain a goose depredation permit from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). As many farmers in the Willamette Valley know first-hand, along with an increasing number of growers in other parts of the state, goose depredation on crops is a very frustrating, and very expensive, problem. A few years ago, it was estimated that geese wintering in the Valley caused a minimum of $15 million in crop damage each year, a number that is...