I don't mind the shooting of coyotes, seems we all know someone who has had a pet get eaten by one at sometime or another here in the southwest. I was surprised when visiting the UP of Michigan, just how bad the problem has gotten there - seems those critters have migrated all over North America.
They're taking over all of the traditional range of wolves and then some. Anywhere wolves have been pushed out, coyotes have moved in. Wolves from what I understand will run down coyotes and kill them just for the pure pleasure of it. What's that old axiom? 'Nature abhors a vacuum?'
Fact Control of Nature
I read the Control of Nature many, many years ago. Plus a lot of other John McPhee books.
Last month while driving my son to a soccer tourney in Lafayette, we crossed the Atchafalaya spillway on I-10. I told him about the events in the early 70’s when the mighty Mississippi nearly changed course.
Years later when I worked on New Orleans Corp projects, I got to know and work and hang out with a lot of the surveyors who worked the Morganza structure when it was failing during the high water. The stories that they told about doing the hand lead line soundings in little skiffs were startling and frightening to me. They really risked their lives to get survey data during the emergency. It was interesting to get to know these unsung heroes after reading about the incident many years before.
