Canada Geese used to be rare: John Muir by way of
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In his memoir “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth,” John Muir describes the Canada geese of 19th-century Wisconsin, and they are hardly recognizable as the same species Matthews encounters making nuisances of themselves on suburban golf courses. Muir’s geese were the alluring but rarely achieved quarry of ambitious hunters. Migrating flocks would circle a marsh cautiously, refusing to land if there was a farmhouse in sight. When they did land to graze, guard geese stood at attention, scanning the landscape and alerting the flock to take to the sky at the first sign of a human presence. Hunters almost never bagged a Canada goose because they couldn’t get close enough to get a shot off.
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In his memoir “The Story of My Boyhood and Youth,” John Muir describes the Canada geese of 19th-century Wisconsin, and they are hardly recognizable as the same species Matthews encounters making nuisances of themselves on suburban golf courses. Muir’s geese were the alluring but rarely achieved quarry of ambitious hunters. Migrating flocks would circle a marsh cautiously, refusing to land if there was a farmhouse in sight. When they did land to graze, guard geese stood at attention, scanning the landscape and alerting the flock to take to the sky at the first sign of a human presence. Hunters almost never bagged a Canada goose because they couldn’t get close enough to get a shot off.
