I do not understand why local officials have not ordered police patrols to stop the freak who has been murdering park animals for a long time now. I cannot even read those stories, let alone face the photographs. I expected nothing from Tupper Thomas, who feels that the park "is for everyone to enjoy" as they see fit and that the annual Macy's fishing contests are neither cruel nor a terrible lesson for children. She does not even agree that it would be better for children to compete by trying to collect the most pieces of litter from the parks rather than by killing or almost-killing innocent creatures. As for the slaughter of geese, I swear I will never, ever buy an airline ticket if I can at all help it. Why can't airlines install some sort of grate to stop flying animals from getting drawn into motors of aircraft? Does that not make more sense than trying to eradicate a species...DUH? This is just more evidence in favor of those who say that animals, plants and trees are way, way better than people can EVER hope to be. I could imagine joining a vigilante group to protect our wildlife from the TRUE "wild" life form... humanity.

It is a shame that some humans are so selfish.They don`t mind killing innocent animals by gassing and/or oil spills.All this for progess?

The recent mass asphyxiation of Canadian geese in Prospect Park initiated by the FAA and Port Authority, but positioned as a Department of Agriculture action, is a sad testament to how our society and its governance has become incapable of differentiating common sense from greed and expediency. This is not a complex issue: the FAA is in the process of redesigning our National Airspace System to introduce their whiz bang "NextGen" technology that allow aircraft to fly lower. It does not take a rocket scientist to know that by flying lower, over parks and wildlife sanctuaries, you invite bird strikes. If the FAA and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had applied some common sense rather than being blinded by airline industry lobbyists who stand to make a bonanza for the aero-mercantile businesses that manufacture this technology, they would have conducted proper environmental impact studies and seen that by lowering the altitude that aircraft fly, you enter the habitats of winged wildlife. Instead, the FAA and Port Authority use their "safety" card to somehow imply this is a irritant that must be gassed away. As a result of the FAA's bone-headed decision permitting approaches to airports at lower altitudes over densely populated urban areas across the U.S., safety has been diminished, not increased.

Jeffrey Starin
Pilot

The article is incorrect in implying that air travelers will be in any way "safer" from bird/plane collisions as a result of this disgraceful slaughter. The vast majority, if not all, of the Park Slope geese were resident, not migratory geese.
DNA tests proved that that flock of geese sucked into the engine of the plane that went down in the Hudson were migratory (Canada) geese.
Therefore, this flimsy justification for slaughtering wildlife instead of implementing proven, effective and long-term non-lethal solutions for geese/human conflicts, is irrelevent.
This was truly a pointless slaughter of urban wildlife.
Geese are attracted to parks for a reason, and there are simple things we can do to make these areas less attractive to them. Slaughtering them is not the answer as they will simply repopulate eventually.
Friends of Animals publishes a Canada Goose Habitat Modification Manual which outlines effective non-lethal solutions to deterring geese from parks and other urban/suburban areas.
Mayor Bloomberg needs to hear from everyone outraged by this wrong-headed and violent decision.
Edita Birnkant, NY Director, Friends of Animals
www.friendsofanimals.org

This is a ridiculous article and I assure you, there are many more losers than the writer of this has the brains to understand. In fact, I'd say there are NO winners here.

Get rid of Tupper Thomas, dreadful job of adminstrating this park. And by the way, if any goose needed to be gassed, it should have been Bloomberg.

Seriously, no excuse whatsoever. It cannot be impossible to construct something to protect propellars from ingesting flying birds (ugh). And there are many other things these geniuses could have done other than mass slaughter: call a bird rescue group to take in the birds (I am a member of several that would have helped), population control, etc.

This is a real tragedy and there are NO winners.

without Tupper, Prospect Park would be a mess. I don't know if you recall how it was before she took over. Huge tracts of the woodlands had horribly compacted soil and wetlands were choked by phragmites reed. It was becoming an inhospitable place for wildlife and humans.

Michael, Prospect Park is dying due to her neglect at raising funds to save the eroded landscape lakeside and the polluted lake.
She has out-served her usefulness for the visitors to the park. The most harm done is by her lack of care for the wildlife habitat and its inhabitants.
Tupper Thomas, clearly is no ally to all who come and see the decay left undealt with year after year.