Too many deer in the Blue Hills?

Not sure that is completely accurate. Development has certainly taken a lot of habitat for the fauna, but the increasing number of coyote, deer and other critter sightings in or near urban areas has more to do with the animals coming back into the area. The habitat was lost a couple of centuries back when most all the forests of the area were cut down (and coyotes never were in this area to begin with). Look at old photos at the turn of the century and recognizable city squares and such look like the surface of the moon.

After a hundred years of growth in and around the urban development of the industrial revolution, we have pockets of habitat unwittingly (in many cases) restored, providing pathways for things like moose to stroll down from the north all the way inside of route 128.

That being said, increased hunting (I'm not a hunter or fan of Ted Nugent, ever since Damn Yankees) would be helpful with the deer to, as Scrooge said, "decrease the surplus population."

im confused.

Wait, what?

I don't really have any kinder way of expressing this, so:

You are a crazy person.

I work with a couple of similarly crazy people, and am constantly bewildered at their deeply ingrained, unshakable conviction that there are "gay pickup spots" abounding in eastern Massachusetts, and that there's a huge population of homosexual men who are running over to these spots 3 or 4 times a week for a good time. No one has ever SEEN anyone actually doing anything untoward, but, hey, everyone knows it's happening. Just ask my friend's cousin's buddy, who totally saw two guys leaving in a van from the "known spot out by the reservoir" and then coming back fifteen minutes later. Or ask the guy I eat lunch with, who jogs past the "known spot" in Weston and is sure he saw the same guy drive by him slowly three times with a gleam in his eye. Or ask any cop in Blue Hills. (Odd that I've never heard it discussed by any police officer anywhere--if people are scared to bring their kids there, you'd think they'd at least mention it when talking about detailed crime statistics and neighborhood safety in Roxbury/Mattapan)

Meanwhile, never mind the fact that every time I've gone past any of these alleged areas, there's been no evidence of anything. And that gay men now make up something like 10% of the male population, and don't have to hide their shame in secret rendezvous spots in the woods like they did in the 70's, since they live in a state that actually acknowledges that they have human rights. And that anyone looking for anonymous sex just does what the heterosexual population has been doing for years and goes on Craig's List. And that if "everyone knows" about these spots, they'd immediately become the local police department's favorite spot to patrol so that they can later trumpet their enforcement of family values to panicked parents in the 'burbs.

Seriously, just because you're not openly dropping slurs doesn't mean that you can keep parroting this homophobic bullshit.

Was this guy seen flinging keys around on Garden Street the other night?

Because you like to watch?

Really.

Or do you just not see it happening around you because gay sex just fascinates you sooo much? Or maybe it ISN'T happening for reals, but it gets you really just so excited just thinking about it?

Of course every discarded condom you see HAD to be from some santorum-laced backwoods adventure, and not from your typical teenage boy-girl shagging in the woods.

Sorry, but "homosexualty" needs no endorsement by anybody like the Governor, toots. Teh Gay is just nature, baby. The troopers know that if there is such activity, the rules have to be applied evenly to all couples, and the law is that everybody can get it on with anybody so long as they hide good. That's been through the courts and the MDC got smacked down on targeting gay couples and not straight couples in the mid-90s.

You want to shut down the roads so the homosexuals can't get there as easily. Hater!

Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com

We need to find solutions which are appropriate for the safety of humans who live around and use the woodlands. People in my neighborhood favor leaving the coyotes alone as a start, but even beavers seem to freak out some people who don't seem to know where they really live.

It isn't a matter of closing off trails and turning hunters loose in the woods, because there are way too many unfenced back yards and unofficial trails and access points into places like the Blue Hills and the Fells. There are those of us who live very close to the woods who don't want our kids or dogs shot at by mistake, either. The shortest path to school and to a local park for my sons uses pieces of a major trail and two informal accesses. Even a very controlled hunt by designated experts may not be safe due to all the informal ways people get into the woods.