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Article: WOLVES AT OUR DOOR COYOTES ARE PROWLING GREATER BOSTON. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WOLF COMES BACK TO NEW ENGLAND TOO?
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2004
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IT'S BEEN QUITE a couple of weeks in environmental news. Ticks
have invaded Nantucket and the natives are arming themselves, gunning
for deer. Meanwhile human homes have been burned in a Maryland
subdivision and hawk homes stripped from the facade of a New York co-
op.
More generally, everywhere you look you see evidence that our
cities and suburbs are pushing up against the wild, and that the wild
is pushing back. Out west cougars loll in tree branches near
playgrounds, pulled in close to town by an abundance of deer that can
only be called "unnatural," an abundance created in part by man's
century-long war on the cougar itself. Closer to home, coyotes have
long roamed the suburban woods ...