The Rochester Board of Public Works and Safety Thursday approved a request from Round Barn Golf Club at Mill Creek Pro Lyle Lingenfelter to allow his staff to shoot geese on the greens.
Lingenfelter told the board as many as 100 geese can flock to the course, pecking and destroying the greens. His staff wants to shoot the geese in the mornings before tee-times begin; that’s before 8 a.m., Lingenfelter said.
Board member John Garrett said anyone shooting the geese must first have a hunting license, Indiana duck stamp, federal migration stamp, use steel shots size No. 7.5 to 4, have a plug in the gun, and shoot only five per day. Garrett told Lingenfelter his staff then needs to write down how many geese were shot and on what day, and allowed shooting time is a half-hour before sunrise through a halfhour after sunset.
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