By the end of the Second World War, the Svalbard barnacle goose population had dwindled to a couple of hundred birds. Flying in from the Arctic to spend the winters on the Solway Firth (the estuary that separates England from Scotland), they were a favourite target of wildfowlers in the area. Since then, a ban on shooting and the Solway goose management scheme that pays farmers to maintain a goose friendly habitat has seen the barnacle goose numbers increase. Today, an uneasy truce has formed between conservationists, farmers and wildfowlers who have different and often conflicting interests in the goose. Adding to that is the Solway's rich military history: once host to huge munitions factories during the First and Second World Wars, this now derelict military infrastructure curates the tidal landscape through awkward access zones, barbed wire fences and secretive burial sites. In this article I argue that the military infrastructure of the Solway, particularly that of the explosive propellants produced in the factories, have left resonances that not only inflect the land itself, but also the trajectory of the barnacle goose. Explosive propellants are used in different ways by the goose's stakeholders: cannon nets by conservationists, bird bangers by farmers, and explosive shot by wildfowlers. Yet this is a dynamic situation that must account for goose agencies and complex entanglements of human, nonhuman, and technology: an explosive landscape that arranges goose life along the flyway.

到第二次世界大战结束时，斯瓦尔巴群岛的藤壶雁数量已减少到几百只。它们从北极飞来，在索尔威湾（英格兰和苏格兰之间的河口）过冬，是该地区野鸟最喜欢的目标。从那时起，禁止射击和向农民支付费用以维持鹅友好栖息地的索尔韦鹅管理计划使得藤壶鹅的数量有所增加。如今，自然资源保护主义者、农民和野禽爱好者之间达成了不稳定的休战协议，他们对鹅有着不同且常常相互冲突的利益。除此之外，索尔威还拥有丰富的军事历史：在第一次和第二次世界大战期间，这里曾经是大型军火工厂的所在地，如今，这座废弃的军事基础设施通过尴尬的出入区、铁丝网和秘密墓地塑造了潮汐景观。在这篇文章中，我认为索尔威的军事基础设施，特别是工厂生产的爆炸性推进剂的基础设施，留下了共鸣，不仅影响了土地本身，还影响了藤壶雁的轨迹。鹅的利益相关者以不同的方式使用爆炸性推进剂：自然资源保护主义者使用炮网，农民使用鸟弹，野鸟使用爆炸物射击。然而，这是一个动态的情况，必须考虑到鹅的机构以及人类、非人类和技术的复杂纠缠：沿着迁徙路线安排鹅生命的爆炸性景观。