"Everything you do--they just keep coming back. There is nothing that we can legally do to keep them out," said Jeremiah Sterling, Eagle River resident.
The yards along Fire Lake in Eagle River have gone to the birds, partly because the goose control programs have been so successful in neighboring Anchorage.
"If you do a pretty good control in one area, the geese are smart enough to move someplace else," said Rick Sinnott of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
And the recent boom of development in the areas .
Etisalat has signed an agreement with a syndicate of 22 local, regional and international banks, which gives the Corporation US$3bn as part of a revolving line of credit agreement that will help the telco realise its goal of becoming a global top 20 operator by 2010. The agreement provides Etisalat with a multipurpose facility that can be used to finance any corporate activity, including investments and acquisitions of target companies and forging of new partnerships. Mohammed Hassan Omran, chairman of Etisalat, praised the syndicates readiness to be involved and finance the corporation's expansions and operations through the coming period. Etisalat is ranked as one of the region's largest corporations by market capitalisation and has been able to achieve record profits in the past years.