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04/08/12(Sun)22:25 No.18631521
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it kindasorta is.
Seriously. America has all types of terrain in it, and a lot of it is... Under developed.
I live in a suburb... technically. i prefer to call it "Pre-Rural" because Modern Maryland Suburbs are quarter-acre lots with a horribly built McMansion who are so tightly cramped that you can look out of your bathroom window while taking your morning piss and see your neighbor eating breakfast... and vise-versa... but I digress. I live on a large plot of land with a little bitty house. Same goes for my six or so neighbors within reasonable walking distance. four of my neighbors raise horses (one breeds, one shows, one has miniature horses.), one raises chickens. I'm alone in having a large, well-maintained lawn and garden (I could argue that I grow fruit and vegetables, but really it's an excuse to give everyone in the neighborhood free tomatoes, and have sliced strawberries in my cereal every morning.)
Every day, i walk my dogs after dinner... and we go two neighbors away... and we're in the woods.
There's a kind of footpath, it runs alongside the narrow creek that swells every spring, turning the whole thing into a swamp. But walking through there, it's a good reminder for suburbanites exactly how close to nature we are.
in the mud beside the creek, I see animal tracks, with fresh ones daily. Lots of deer, and bird tracks of all sizes (including an Emu track, but that's a different story) rarely a dog track, almost never anything predatory.
Last year, late in the autumn, I saw a track that I didn't know. So, I went home, and used the internet. Turned out, it was Black Bear.
There was a black bear at a water source less than a quarter mile from my home.
Not the most terrifying thing, but honestly, it's an aspect of our wilderness that large bodied predators can be hiding just about anywhere. |
