Feral cats and out-of-control coyote populations don’t have anything to do with the wipe-out of ground birds?
It must be the gas wells, right?
Puh-leeze.
^^^^^^ This. When I was a kid I never saw a coy-dog (coyote) now they are abundant. Ruffed grouse used to be everywhere, you couldn’t walk in the wood without at least a few blowing up in your face. You could here them beating their wings all day long. I haven’t heard nor have I seen one in a couple years at least, and we don’t have any gas wells in VT.
Exactly. When I grew up in California in school they beat the drum about how “global warming” was causing the deer population to collapse because in 2005 it was less than half of what it had been in 1990.
Naturally, it had nothing at all to do with the 1991 ban on hunting mountain lions and the doubling of the mountain lion population. Looking back I can only assume that the idiots must have thought that > California < mountain lions must all be vegans.