jasoncapecod
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Interesting, my wife's family has had a home on the cape for 40yrs...we have never had any rodent issues...there is a problem with rabbits eating the flowers
Wildlife In Populated Regions
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Below is the menace of homeowners around here. The town allows hunters to cull them during the winter but they barely put a dent in the population. I went after her with a baseball bat (wish I had something more effective). I don't care how cute she is.
Behind her used to be my very productive vegetable garden but what's the point when they mow down anything of value and leave the weeds alone? I plan to build an Attica-level fence next spring after my son is out of the house.
jasoncapecod
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this has become a major problem.. they have eaten everything, even my jalapenos
ChrisC
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My uncles have a "Camp" in Upstate/Central New York near Binghamton for Deer Hunting.
However, the best deer hunting in New York State can be found on the Sawmill or Taconic Parkways during the winter, as hundreds of deer come to graze on the grass that can still grow due to the traffic's heat sink effect. I am sure you could bag 10-20 deer every evening - if they allowed hunting from your car windows...
ChrisC
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There are a lot of issues on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket due to the success of reforestation, environmental restoration, sanctuaries, and land trusts:
- Wild Turkeys, Skunks, and Deer have taken over Martha's Vineyard. All vegetation is fair game, especially in off-seasons. They have no predators. (The island had no skunks until the 1970s when hippies introduced them.)
- Nantucket has been so successful with the Nantucket Islands Land Bank Act (1983) (2% tax on real estate transfers) that 50% of Nantucket Island is permanently protected through a combination of environmental trusts, land banks, and conservation restrictions:
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation (NCF) owns and manages roughly 9,010 acres, which is nearly one-third (30–31%) of the island
- Nantucket Islands Land Bank holds around 3,442 acres, with another ~503 acres protected via conservation restrictions, totaling nearly 3,945 acres (~17%)
- Now, no seasonal, low-income, middle-income, or upper-middle-income workers can live on the island. Often, less desirable land for mid-island housing becomes the target of bidding wars, with well-funded environmental trusts often winning.
- Nantucket is effectively and extension of the New Yok finance community.
- Seal population rebounded in the 1990s, especially around Monomoy Island (south of Chatham). Now the entire Cape Cod Seashore is overrun with Great Whites from August 1st to October. I used to kayak in the inlets around Chatham, but the Great Whites now come into the inner harbors and sounds.
- According to fishermen, seals are allegedly harming some coastal fishing stocks. (Massachusetts Seal Pelt Program began circa 1888 and continued intermittently through 1962; Bounty rates varied over time:
Early years: $1 per seal tail
Later years: up to $5 per whole pelt and nose - Rabbits and Deer are definite pests on Cape Cod mainland. Few predators.
jasoncapecod
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all good points....their house is now worth a ton.....I ride my bike to Chatham and yes the seals are everywhere... There are a few coyotes but not enough.
How could you?
Edit. And don’t you have a Winchester or Browning or Ruger branded something like everyone else? Second amendment and all….
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EMSC
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Wrong models in todays US. All the gun heads seem to be focused on AR15's, 50 cal and Glock pistols and other ridiculous stuff. Your mentions would have been more common and accurate 30-50 years ago I suspect. (that said, actual hunters that actually eat the meat and do a service controlling animal populations would certainly have traditional rifles and shotguns).
Just jokes. I know very little about guns but my brother is a sporting shooter and I sometimes go with him to cull feral animals and roos on a property a few hundred miles from here. Those are the brands of guns he has.
tseeb
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"Weighing up to 200 pounds, California’s wild pigs live in 56 out of 58 counties. These hybrid creatures — part domesticated pig, part wild boar — have been wreaking havoc throughout the state for the past century, tearing up sensitive habitats and increasingly, posing a safety hazard to humans." I've seen them and the damage they cause in my part of SE San Jose and where my Mom lives further South. See https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/wild-pigs-aggressive-threat-bay-area-hiking-trails-20368969.php for more info.
Also have seen many wild turkeys in area where my Mom lives and Tule Elk, usually far from road, sometimes in groups of 10-20, going over hill on the 6 miles between my house and hers.
Also have seen many wild turkeys in area where my Mom lives and Tule Elk, usually far from road, sometimes in groups of 10-20, going over hill on the 6 miles between my house and hers.
We always read about invasive species in North America, usually from Asia, but I had no idea about this American animal that has been in Europe for 90 years and who brought them there:
www.theguardian.com
Rampaging raccoons: how the American mammals took over a German city – and are heading across Europe
Many in Kassel have embraced the animal but the EU classes it as an invasive species and ecologists are divided about what to do next
www.theguardian.com