Last week, La Tremouille sent an update headed "Day 111 at the Destroyed Nesting Area." According to La Tremouille, that message reached more than 300 e-mail addresses.

Managing the list and writing thousands of words of updates has become a time-consuming chore, and La Tremouille doesn't leaflet at the goose meadow as often as he used to.

"I'm spending so much time on that mailing. It completely swamps me," he says. "It's really distressing for me. Each of those reports takes between two and three hours and I put up three to seven a week."

A Humane Disposition

La Tremouille's harshest attacks have come against Barrios, who supports further upgrades along the riverfront near Magazine Beach.

"He's getting way out of whack on this and it's very distressing. He's the one person," La Tremouille says. "The minute he starts talking about intervening against the geese, he's getting outrageous."

Barrios, who declined to comment for this article, wrote a letter to the editor that was published in the Cambridge Chronicle this summer. The letter suggested that the fowl issue be handled "in a humane and caring way, with respect for both geese and humans."

Wellons says that's a euphemism for putting the geese to sleep, as often happens to animals once humane societies get possession of them. Now she and La Tremouille have put up posters calling for the MDC to dispose of Barrios in a similarly humane fashion.