At Sloan’s Lake, the geese are hard to miss — and so is what they leave behind.
“We get quite a few complaints from goose poop,” said Vicki Vargas-Madrid, Denver Parks wildlife program manager. “Our park staff spend probably around 18 to 20 hours a month sweeping up the sidewalks and the trails across the board.”
The reason is simple: the same features that make Denver’s parks attractive to people — green grass, water features and open space — also make them perfect for geese that no longer migrate.
“They’re not migrating throughout the continent as they should. They don’t need to exert all of that energy to migrate thousands of miles when they have the habitat we’ve created for them in our park system,” she said…