Morning Metro: Twit Picks, Coyote Complaints Coming, and Crosswalks to Nowhere
Decatur Metro | December 2, 2011
- Creative Loafing’s Twit picks [CL]
- Emory bookstore to begin textbook rental program [Emory Wheel]
- The Decatur City Commission should be ready for another coyote discussion next Monday [East Lake]
- Atlanta History Center selects NYC firm for redesign [Saporta Report]
- Douglasville installing “crosswalks to nowhere” [11Alive]
- GM offers to buy back Volts from owners concerned about battery fires [NYT]
Decatur tree lighting pic courtesy of Mrs. DM
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I am more concerned about pets and wildlife lost to traffic than to coyotes, hawks, and owls. That said, I’m not opposed to running coyotes off. As the top of the food chain, they need predatory pressure to keep their numbers in check. If not, they will become a nuisance, like the geese that no longer migrate.
Flame suit on.
I thought that the hawk and owl population in these parts were natural, the coyotes are an introduced species.
My dog has a nightly sing-along with an owl behind our house. She thinks its another dog.
I’m trying to figure out why coyotes seem like a bigger problem here than when I lived in New Mexico were they were an accepted part of the landscape, not a problem. Maybe it’s that there’s still loads of open, unbuilt space nearby for them, even in “urban” areas, so they can prey on other wildlife without singling out pets. Plus, roadrunners are fast…………meep, meep!
Now jackalopes….that’s another story.