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PostSat May 02, 2020 3:38 pm 
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Bone up on your PNW history and location please.
You are so considerate to give me the lesson. Perhaps you also should know that almost every culture ranging from middle ages European to ancient Chinese has stories about dragons, but nobody ever found any evidence of any real dragon anywhere. Humans travel and stories travel, they do not represent reliable estimation of any animals native range. To estimate native range scientists use excavated remains and carbon dating. Native range of coyote before 1700 definitely included what is now Montana and Eastern parts of Idaho. However it most likely didn't include any part of what is now Washington or Oregon. Yes there were small areas of prairies in the West, but they were disconnected and far from coyote native habitat and also wolves were present too. The closer to our time it gets, the more definitive data we have. Coyotes range extended to east of the cascade mountains by 1900 and with eradication of wolves eventually reached all the way to Olympic peninsula by recent times. Fact however is, there is no evidence of any coyote west of cascade mountain range before 1900. All we are talking about is that coyotes are not native animals along north west coast (I said coast, not all of PNW) exactly same way as eastern gray squirrels are not native. Sure, every animal is native to some part of the world, so unless you bring someone from mars, everyone is native somewhere. Both coyote and eastern gray squirrels are non native in exactly same way - they are both native to the north American continent, but were not present along north west coastal areas before colonization and both reached the areas where we live at about same time (1900s).

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PostSun May 03, 2020 8:05 am 
Whatever. I'll continue to go with the history of the people (humans) who were originally here. A coyote is a real animal. I've shot NEAR them to keep them scared of people. Not to worry, that was way out in the sticks of the NCW area where I lived at the time. ON TURKEYS Half of the turkey habitat orchard has been......clearcut over the winter. lol.gif I suspect it will still be orchard but will see. It's on a road that I ride my bike on frequently. I did spot three Toms (the turkey kind) still wandering around and they have half the orchard intact.

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PostSun May 03, 2020 8:21 am 
I think Kitya is pretty much spot on...
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Non native squirrels and bunnies just take the spaces vacated by native species already, they don't encroach or kick native species out.
...but that is not quite right. The Eastern Gray Squirrel is not so much interested in the habitat of the Douglas Squirrel, but it did outcompete the Western Gray Squirrel, which is now on the brink of extinction. They are both creatures of the oak forest. Birds were not mentioned, but it is instructive to point out that our state bird is the Goldfinch. Seen one lately? That is because they have been driven out by starlings, as have bluebirds. The larger starlings have taken over the nest holes. I am not anticipating much effect from turkeys on local wildlife, but it is hard to make predictions, especially about the future!

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PostSun May 03, 2020 11:54 am 
wow. dizzy.gif this one sure went off the rails in a hurry.

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PostSun May 03, 2020 2:52 pm 
Sculpin - thanks for the little tip re goldfinches. When I first moved into my east Ballard home about 20 years ago, goldfinches would occasionally visit. I have a photo of 4 of them at one of my feeders. After my first 5 or so years here, nada. All the bird life here has been impacted by the densification and the new Seattle building codes, which allow buildout to pretty much the whole lot. frown.gif

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PostSun May 03, 2020 5:18 pm 
I get goldfinches in my back yard occasionally, but that may be because I am so close to Pt. Defiance. Surprisingly not many starlings around here. Lots of Northwestern Crows, though. Used to have Stellers Jays come and visit, but a pair of Western Scrub Jays took up residence here some time ago and I rarely see the Stellers any more. (I am certain it was the pair of Scrub Jays who built the nest in the juniper bush next to my front door.) Used to have quite a few of the native Douglas Squirrels in our back yard when I was a kid - about two miles due east of Oak Tree Park, and two blocks from Wapato Park. Observations made over many years with my own eyeballs cause me to laugh at some of the statements above.

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PostSun May 03, 2020 5:27 pm 
treeswarper wrote:
Hate to tell you more, but there were areas of prairie from Olympia on down what is now the I-5 corridor, into the Willamette Valley. Tribes burned the forest to make habitat for deer and berries and vegetation such as Camas roots, desirable shrubs for basket weaving etc. Ski has posted an article of a tribe setting a fire to burn out an enemy tribe. Native Americans have used fire for land management way before any Europeans arrived.
Most of those citations can be found in several of my posts in this thread: https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7963729 The notion that the Pacific Northwest (or any other part of the North American continent) was at some point in the distant past covered with unending forest is laughable at best. I'm not going to expend time and energy trying to address the nonsense posted above. The individual who is so tragically misinformed can do the research themselves. Or not.

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PostSun May 03, 2020 5:31 pm 
We had a bunch of Eastern Gray Squirrels here a few years back that drove away the Douglas Squirrels. This was around the time of the cottontail invasion. The grays numbers reduced about the time the bobcats started coming the Douglas are back now, must be harder to catch in dark woods.

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