This season, Broomfield residents may see a strange bright orange device roaming the local parks to control the geese population.

The Geese Management Device, a land and water craft, is a remote-control vehicle used to deter geese from settling in local parks. Broomfield employees use the craft to move the geese into better locations, such as designated open spaces.

“We wanted to come up with a different way to move geese to a more fitting location,” parks employee Jeff Kissinger said. “It’s remote-controlled and goes on land and water and basically does the exact same thing a goose dog would do.”

It works by looking intimidating and scaring the geese into a different location, with its bright orange paint job and threatening grin, Kissinger said. Geese can be a nuisance in public parks, especially because of their feces. Kissinger said that an employee will drive the device around the park to deter the geese.

— Corbett Stevenson, Broomfield Enterprise