The city of Madison’s golf enterprise program operated in the red for years. After major flooding in 2018, it reported losses of nearly a million dollars, with another half-million in losses in 2019. Now revenue has doubled to $5.2 million.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted Thursday night to approve buying land from the City of Madison for potential use as a sustainability campus and landfill.
City Of Madison resumes goose management strategies Close Close
Around this time each year, the Madison Parks Division contends with an overabundance of geese. Frequently, that happens in local parks, where birds can come into confrontation with humans and also leave behind bodily waste.
The Parks Division uses a variety of methods to control the population of Canada geese. Those methods include, among other things, leaving an unmowed buffer strip of vegetation between the park and waterfront, blocking the birds’ access to water.
The parks division also uses decoy predator dummies and rubs oil on geese eggs to keep them from hatching.