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Kapila Kane
Ha`aha`a
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 Posted - 01/31/2008 : 03:50:50 AM
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6 miles from the foothills, just 3 nor 4 from Denver...
We have a decent open space at Crown hill, with a lake and a handful of circling paths around...
It's been cold...
So the other night I went to meet my wife finish the loop. It was dusk, and getting dark...
People were getting scarce.
There bolting across the frozen lake, were two full grown coyotes bolting for the area my wife was in...probably on the trail of smaller meal-sized prey...but using the lake like an expressway to the west side of the lake!
Thanks to our wilderness skills, and our cell phones, I warned Kalena of the impending crossing of paths ....
and hurried to meet her.
One turned back across the lake, but the other came out near Karen.
As I joined her the other kept off to the boundary, but parralled us most of the way back to the cars...
I didn't feel threatened, just a little adrenaline boosted.
It was a strong image...coyotes using the lake to express their way around their home humting grounds!
We like having the place, and a modicum of some wildness.
But after dark alone, or with small pets that many walk (some off leash)...it's not your basic city park!
I like to read Rick Bass stories and issues (advocate of wildness and habitat)
Of course, he's in Montana and fighting for habitat for Grizzlies, Wolves and all wild things native to the area.
In the city, I prefer leaving the Grizzlies out of our tame Denver mix...but we have almost an overpopulation of city dwelling foxes...
and in the wilder edges, coyotes and fox and wild geese...oh my.
But what we mostly have...is suburbia and yuppie big-houses in subdivided mountains... even 30 plus miles into the mountains...
yet the brown bears and mountain lions are there...fighting for habitat...
watch those evening walks, and always carry a big stick!
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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
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Posted - 01/31/2008 : 04:37:46 AM
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We even have coyotes right here in the middle of Cleveland. Where I used to work before retirement is an ex-Nike missile site right on the edge of Lake Erie not 3 miles from downtown Cleveland. There are plenty of coyote, deer, bald eagles and wild turkey. They even have problems with coyotes at the Lakefront airport. And deer are everywhere, city or no city. We had a little spike buck in the front yard just the other day. I don't know what my kitty thought it was -- she must have thought it was some humongous squirrel or something.
Bottom line - we are encoraching on the critters homes...or we are tearing down their homes and they are still trying to live where they were born. |
Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
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Momi
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Julie H
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 8:59:23 PM
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Yep,
I got the invading habitat blues, too. Mountain lions taking out dogs, coyotes taking out cats, what have you. But I live here in their world, they were here long before I moved in, and so I must live my life with constant caution.
I have to remind my neighbors who like to jog at twilight that we always tend to understimate wild animals. Look at that tiger killing that boy at the San Frnacisco Zoo!
Just excercise caution at all times when living in wild places.
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Edited by - Julie H on 02/01/2008 9:28:50 PM |
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Kapila Kane
Ha`aha`a
USA
1051 Posts |
Posted - 02/02/2008 : 07:01:03 AM
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and I know it's not that unusual..
but it was something about the imagery of those two coyotes, blazing across the lake like it was their own personal expressway!
The geese didn't approve...
what it really brings to mind is environmental wonders, ka aina, and how issues of encroachment are a concern everywhere
hoping that there is a place "Where the Wild Things Are"
and lately, I've been reading Rick Bass...an interesting short story writer and environmental activist in the Yaak Valley of Montana...but that's another topic--favorite environmentally centered authors... |
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 02/02/2008 : 1:46:32 PM
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Just excercise caution at all times when living in wild places
You're darn right... Silicon Valley after dark
(like near the Oasis Bar)
...ooooooooh
...(makes me shudder)
Interesting story 'bout them Caiyoats in any case.
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Mahope Kākou...
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Edited by - Lawrence on 02/02/2008 1:48:39 PM |
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