I have to disagree with the article. My former Landlady has a feeder, but she has a "forest" for a backyard. She naturally has possums and raccoons in her yard because of the dense ivy and many trees as well as a deep drainage ditch.
I have one for my apartment on my 2nd story porch -- which cats cannot get to or other wild animals.
Where I live is on the border of a dense forest -- my former Landlady just has many, many tall trees and thick growth in her yard and surrounding yards. I actually within about 50 feet of a forest (and it may be part of a National Forest -- not sure who owns the land).
This article shows us once again that there is not one facet of life in America which is not targeted for regulation and eventual termination by the liberal nanny state.
The things that seem to perpetually raise the liberal ire are:
1) People derive pleasure from the activity,
2) Money is spent on it that could be re-allocated to vote buying, or dumped into some third world rat hole,
3) It violates their childish notions that they are going to create some kind of pre-Columbian wilderness within suburban America.