“30 square miles is not a square that is 30 miles by 30 miles. That would be an area of 900 square miles. Try a square 5.48 miles by 5.48 miles. (or a rectangle 30 miles x 1 mile).
The point of raccoon infiltration from outside of the study’s trapping area is quite plausible if you think about a travel distance of only 2-3 miles to the center. But you discussion of compensatory reproduction was interesting even if your arithmetic was off.
I forget where I heard it but NRCS field borders were called predator food plots. You were saying 10 yards or 30 feet wide. CP-33 pays for 30-120’ wide field borders. I think the high end is still easily hunted by any predator with a nose.
Anecdotally, (Will, wasn’t she a Wild West sharp shooter?) on my 175 acre NW Missouri farm I trapped 32 raccoons, 24 opossums and 10 skunks last winter, 2022-2023, stopping on April 10th. This year I had the best fall quail numbers since I bought the farm in 2007. Was it a result of all the habitat work I’ve done? Perhaps the dry nesting weather? Or was it the trapping? I don’t know, but the traps are out as of today and the gate to the mesocarnivore graveyard is open and accepting bodies.”
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01/30/24