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Now time to reintroduce wolves.

(Will also help with the tick epidemic.)

For peopled areas, chickens do an amazing job clearing the ticks. They mainly need somewhere to sleep safely at night and can take care of themselves in groups during the day.

Untill the hawk population recovers

that's what the guard dogs and guinea fowl are for

>guinea fowl

Forgive my ignorance, do they keep the hawks at bay by alarming every time there's danger? Cause I can't imagine the ones we have here fighting off anything

Yeah, they usually kept as predator alerts for mixed flocks. They are also known to kill/scare away snakes, which is nice because I live where there are poisonous rattlesnakes

We have chickens, living on the edge of a regional park where the hawks thrive. They are reluctant to hunt near the house, probably mainly because the low tree cover severely limits their maneuverability.

Oooh, the hawks are pretty well inside the 128. I routinely pick up squirrel and rabbit ‘chunks’ from on my yard. In the winter, I’ve see occasional red stains in the snow.

And when the wolves attack humans? Lobbyists have long claimed that there are no documented cases of healthy wild wolves attacking humans, but there are actually dozens of documented cases [1][2]. Wolves are nothing like dogs. They're large enough to hurt/kill humans, and they have regularly done so whenever wolf and human populations overlapped.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attack#North_America [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_...

More people have died in cars hitting the reintroduced turkeys mentioned above than are in that list.

(a lot of those are also due to rabies and a few sound completely made up)

I also live in Boston and my poor dog got hounded by those ticks. I assume it wolves eating deers is what would help with that?

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