WALDWICK—Traveling just north of the Upper Ridgewood Tennis Club last week, we tagged along with Ridgewood GeesePeace as it sought to oil Canadian goose eggs.
The mission itself proved fruitless—an overnight rainstorm had washed away targeted eggs—but volunteer Ridgewood residents Jim Borghoff and Ellie Gruber helped explain the process of containing the area goose population. The early morning work has humanely cut down the goose population since the group's inception in 2007. Borghoff estimates by 2015 there will be 1,022 fewer adult Canadian geese in the immediate area.
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