There is a real problem with other users of our gentrified environment—geese!
The Canadian goose has become a major pollution problem all over the country, from Washington State to Minnesota and Pennsylvania to Long Island, the ”Menacing Stately Giants” bring E. coli, Giardia, Salmonella and Cryptosporidium to your home town parks, soccer fields and golf courses and trails.
The average goose poops about three pounds a day and can damage five square feet of turf daily.
For example, there are about 25,000 geese in the Seattle area. That means the region has to deal with 75,000 lbs of goose poop daily anywhere the goose wants to go.
Furthermore, since birds eat the poop, yum-yum, and that poop carries pathogens to other places, the danger to human health is growing.
Horse manure has none of the pathogens humans are concerned about. It is safe.
Geese are a protected species. At home in NY in 2003, Sen. Charles Schumer obtained $200,000 in federal funds to address the geese overpopulation problem.
FACT: Horse manure on trails carries no disease of any danger to humans: no Giardia, no Cryptosporidium, no e coli, no Salmonella. Horse manure is all but 12 percent water. On a trail horse manure dries up and completely disappears in less than 12 days.
Better we should extend our efforts to getting rid of the deer (carries deer tick—Lyme), mice (Hantus virus) and geese.