[george76]

We climbed mountains and hiked trails all over the state for decades with no problems.

With the recent hunting season eliminations and restrictions plus the forest service ‘vacating’ grazing alloments everywhere...the predator populations have exploded.

Even Canadian wolves released in Yellowstone are showing up in Colorado.

[BIGLOOK]

I visited my brother in upstate NY in '98 and '01....75 miles from NYC....where I grew up. It was once dairy and farmland. Forests, swamps and gravel flats and pastures where once I was paid by farmers to keep the varmints down.

When I was there, I saw fox, chucks and raccoons ( who were particularly pesky since they developed a taste for dog food) in the backyard. Deer were there in the early morning and I was told coyotes had moved into the neighborhood too.

I suppose some of the folks that bought up the land to create suburbia think they're cute but rabies shots have taken a dramatic up tick. House cats disappear and backyard gardens have become impossible to keep.

Martha Steward Living is their ideal and they're in a losing battle with nature's reality.