Nuisance Geese

**2thDoc** · 08-06-2007, 04:46 PM

I have a patient that has a nuisance goose problem and wants to contact someone at the DNR about getting rid of them. She says there were 9 last year and she has over 40 this year and they wont go away.

anybody know who to contact at the DNR??

**mojo** · 08-06-2007, 05:28 PM

You gotta be kidding me.

**GobblerHntr** · 08-06-2007, 06:18 PM

Have them call me. I've got something for their problem

**RazMaTaz** · 08-06-2007, 09:46 PM

Depredation Permits
For further information on permits call 803-734-3609.

Request a permit from any DNR Wildlife Management or Law Enforcement office at no cost to the applicant. These permits are valid for 30 days, and are renewable if additional time is needed to alleviate the problem. Additional permits may be required when dealing with Federally-protected birds. A depredation permit is not required when capturing any nuisance furbearer or squirrel causing property damage within one-hundred yards of a home.

For permits call:

Area Phone Number
Region 1 - Clemson 864-654-8266
Region 2 - Florence 843-661-4766
Region 3 - Columbia 803-734-4303
Region 4 - Charleston 843-953-9307

The DNR's Furbearer Project also maintains a list of Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators (NWCOs) that can assist property owners with various nuisance wildlife problems for a fee. The List of Nuisance Wildlife Control Operators is provided in the Adobe PDF file format. Adobe� Reader� is required to open the files and is available as a free download from the Adobe� Web site.

**2thDoc** · 08-07-2007, 08:03 AM

geese are in town....or at least in a city limit. the families that live on this little lake thought the geese were cute for a little while, but they have gotten aggressive and there are too many of them.

does the DNR handle this kind of thing? we ARE talking about a federally protected bird, even though they are local, right?

**DUCKMAN** · 08-07-2007, 08:49 AM

These resident nusiance geese are now exempt from Fed. Regs. They will not relocate them. The DNR has a program that will catch them and they will be at the processor within hours and the meat goes to the needy. Make sure they understand that they will die! They did this on the Harbison lakes and have reduced these geese to very small and now wary numbers!

They no longer relocate geese!

**2thDoc** · 08-07-2007, 08:59 AM

that's the program i am talking about, but any idea who the contact is over at the DNR??

**SwampDunkey** · 08-07-2007, 09:09 AM

Will that permit allow me to go shoot them and then carry them to said processor? How do I get in touch with this processor? I got a fella that is gonna let me kill some geeese on a golf course this year. The Home owners Assoc already knows that they will die and do not care one bit