1.   But federal officials concede that efforts to control the Canada geese population all over the country are not working.

2.   But not everyone approved of more aggressive methods to trim the geese population.

3.   But with an exploding goose population, Kent officials are standing firm against the animal rights activists.

4.   Nonetheless, the federal government, through the Department of Agriculture, is promoting humane methods like harassment by dogs to keep down suburban goose populations.

5.   The geese population is the result of an extraordinarily successful conservation effort.

6.   The goose population is now nearly three times as abundant as it was when first studied decades ago, and it is still growing.

7.   There, as the goose population has doubled every five years of late, the big honkers have become pests in the eyes of many people.

8.   Fournier says the resident goose population is expanding at an exponential rate.