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Article: RACCOONS ADAPT TO HUMAN HABITAT
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- August 6, 1994
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DRAWING
Raccoons feed in cornfields, gardens and campgrounds.
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OUTDOORS - NATURE
In presettlement days, bison roamed the tall grass prairie of Northwest Indiana. Bears rambled through the woods and thickets and along the banks of watercourses. Mountain lions, lynx and wolves preyed on other mammals, including raccoons.
Native Americans lived lightly on the land and took what they needed without altering the landscape. The balance of nature continued as it had for thousands of years.
And then came the settlers of the 1820s. They chopped down the forests, plowed under the prairies, drained the wetlands and sandmined the ...