. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The swan dilemma Any suggestion that the tundra swans destroying cranberry vines in New Jersey be shot is a sure guarantee for drawing return fire. A lady in Mountain Lakes, , wrote to Philip E. Marucci of the Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory in Chatsworth: "I used to look forward to using cranberries in a nut bread 1 would bake .... However, after reading that the cranberry farmers want a hunting season on swans, I have substituted raisins, prunes and dates for cranberries and will boy- cott aU cranberry products and wi
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The swan dilemma Any suggestion that the tundra swans destroying cranberry vines in New Jersey be shot is a sure guarantee for drawing return fire. A lady in Mountain Lakes, , wrote to Philip E. Marucci of the Cranberry and Blueberry Laboratory in Chatsworth: "I used to look forward to using cranberries in a nut bread 1 would bake .... However, after reading that the cranberry farmers want a hunting season on swans, I have substituted raisins, prunes and dates for cranberries and will boy- cott aU cranberry products and will advise others to do the same .... Given a choice between cranberry farmers or swans, 1 easily opt for the ; I share with the lady a discomfiture over the mental picture of these alabaster beauties with six foot wingspreads tumbling to earth after being filled with lead. But there is the grower's side of the story. Grower William Haines III told Good Morning America that the swans are beautiful, "but then 1 saw pieces of vine floating in the ; The swans have an appetite for red root and damage the vines while foraging for the weed. The Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended firing firecracker shells and floating red balloons to scare off the huge birds. Neither recommendation has worked. To grower pleas for a hunting season, John P. Rogers, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service's Office of Migratory Bird Management, has probably given the last word: "There is a lot of public interest in swans. We would have to consider the public response to any proposal for a hunting season, and 1 suspect it would be ; So what to do? Obviously, things can't just be allowed to continue as they have been going. Janet Jackson, spokeswoman for the New Jersey Audubon Society, has suggested thai perhaps the state could find a way to attract the birds to a state bird sanctuary in the cranberry growing region. New Jersey correspondent Elizabeth Carpent
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