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That's interesting. My guess for why one would allow shooting over feeding is the long term effects to the larger population and ecosystem. As long as the geese population is being monitored properly it would seem reasonable that hunting geese can be done without drastically altering the genetic diversity of the geese, as well as their surrounding ecosystem. Given the reasons stated above, that is not the case for feeding. Intuitively, the much larger number of people who would engage in feeding geese, and the fact that it could be done year round, would create a fairly large selective pressure on the geese population. The negative effects would be amplified if the parks provided nutrition rich bird feed. A "feeding season" would probably lead to more confusion, as well as increase the number of people still tossing out bread and crackers. It seems much easier to just make feeding illegal and minimize the impact of the feeding that is going to happen regardless. Hunting probably has a slight impact on larger birds with larger single color patches on their bellies, but I trust that wildlife management monitors this.

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