"You'd have to eat a couple of handfuls before you got sick," she explains in a nonchalant tone of voice.

Wellons has made it her business to find out everything there is to know about the goose meadow. She even filed a Freedom of Information Act request last spring compelling the MDC to release documents about the goose meadow.

Sitting at her dining room table one fall day, she unfurls several large diagrams from the MDC showing the goose meadow. As one of her cats crawls across the blueprint, she explains her theory of how the MDC is colluding with BU to kill the geese. She calls it "politics as usual."

"There's a great deal of cronyism at the MDC," she says. "That can lead to very irregular things."

But MDC and BU officials say it's no secret that, when BU renovated its boathouse last year, the MDC asked the university to clean up the triangle and to pay for the project.

MDC spokesperson Chuck Borstel says there is no chance the goose meadow will be restored as Friends of the White Geese demand. And the agency just can't honor requests like an autopsy on a dead goose.

"We're not even responding to them anymore. We've done all we can," he says. "These people have gone a little extreme saying that there's a conspiracy out there. It's a little out of control."

"We've spent a lot of time--too much time. Too many resources have been wasted on it," he adds.