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• Encourage developers to adopt landscape plans that deter Canada geese.

• Remove pond aerators during colder months when feasible.

• Deter geese through contractual dog services and with pyrotechnics and other scare tactics, when feasible.

Policy 16: Community education will include best practices for living with wildlife and allow residents to live amicably with the natural environment, resolving nuisance animal concerns

Issues

• Some residents have unfounded concerns about wildlife due to lack of understanding.

• Species overpopulation can affect public and private land.

• Homeowners unknowingly provide habitat and food for wildlife.

Strategies

• Provide educational opportunities and factual information through Web pages, brochures and links to other organizations through the City of Dublin Web site.

• Respond promptly through e-mail, phone and mailings when resident/wildlife conflicts arise.

• Nature Education Coordinator will maintain statistics and licensing, upholding all state and federal laws.

Policy 17: Man-made structures benefiting wildlife will be established and maintained when feasible.

Issues

• Decrease in specific types of habitat such as vernal pools and standing snags have caused decline in beneficial wildlife such as insect-eating tree swallows and eastern bluebirds.

• Human involvement has altered landscapes, causing decline in certain species.

• Many animals have daily and seasonal migration routes.

Strategies

• Install and maintain bluebird trails within parks and green spaces.

• Use volunteers when feasible to plant, install and maintain structures such as bluebird trails.

• Maintain dead trees unless they pose threat to human traffic.