Ben Henry Created: May 11, 2021 07:20 PM
The fate of a well-known Canada Goose is in limbo as its adoptive family works to bring him back to their home.
5 EYEWITNESS NEWS first introduced you to ‘Peeps the Goose’ last August after he was turning heads on Prior Lake. To help stretch his wings, Peeps would fly next to the Hendrickson family of Prior Lake’s jet ski.
The Hendrickson’s have had Peeps since he was a gosling after it waddled up to them on their property. They took it in to help their son through the pandemic.
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Shortly after our first story ran, a woman who had also raised a goose at home asked the family if they’d take in her goose Puddles. Peeps and Puddles quickly bonded.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) issued a proposed rule to revoke the Service’s January 7, 2021, final rule defining the scope of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) as it.
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On May 7, 2021, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS” or “Service”) published a proposed rule that would restore the traditional interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (“MBTA”) as prohibiting incidental take and not just purposeful killing of migratory birds. This was a predictable step by the Biden Administration, but the proposed rule contains some revealing commentary that may signal how the USFWS will implement and enforce the MBTA after the rule is finalized.
I. Political Ping-Pong
For over fifty years it was widely accepted that the prohibition in the MBTA against killing migratory birds “at any time, by any means, and in any manner” applied to incidental killing, or “take” of migratory birds as well as intentional killing. Courts that had interpreted the statute generally confirmed that interpretation with a few exceptions, most notably the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. I