The effort to cull geese from Denver parks — and donate the meat to needy families — continued in the predawn hours of Monday morning.

The latest roundup occurred at City Park. A pair of wildlife managers with the United States Department of Agriculture boarded kayaks and slipped onto the surface of man-made Ferril Lake. Their colleagues stood on the shore in waders, forcing the geese toward a corral erected on shore. One supported the effort with a red remote-controlled boat.

Relying on the rainbow glow cast from a fountain at the center of the lake, the team worked with efficiency, herding the geese like a pack of semi-aquatic border collies.

The molting birds were helpless to fly from their fate, and some hissed or honked at the workers, but all eventually found themselves trapped against temporary fencing on shore, packing in so closely that the birds climbed atop each other. At least one tried fruitlessly to squeeze through narrow openings in the fencing.

Workers inside the pens passed the birds to colleagues, who loaded them into orange plastic crates.

In total, about 300 birds — far from all the geese in the park — were carted away to a processing center to be killed and turned into meals for hungry households somewhere in Colorado. Officials have declined to say exactly where the animals end up.

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Scott Gilmore, deputy executive director or Denver Parks and Recreation, said it’s easy to see the need for the goose rodeos. He pointed down to the lake bank, which the geese had denuded and covered in greasy fecal matter.

“There’s no vegetation. They’ve eaten everything. There’s poop everywhere on the ground. There’s algae starting to bloom in the lake,” he said. “It’s about managing the damage the geese are causing to this environment.”