The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for June 26, 2022

Over much of the world, less and less room for wildlife as human footprint expands.

That bear should get together with Native Americans.

Here at GC there’s always a place for a funny bear…

Kind of like women in the United States.

Our state either has a bit of a bear problem or a bit of a human problem. But come to think of it, maybe it’s not either-or.

A lot of places, the same goes for humans! Not enough room!

Preserve wildlife habitat, shoot a land developer.

Thats what the coyotes and deer say all the time to us. We have all learned to share. Never feed them though……

Gonna love the buffet on trash day.

Unfortunately that’s exactly how it is.

The big picture.

Too sad and true to be funny. Someone commented above that this situation is also true for humans…just wow. None so blind as those who will not see. It’s now commonplace to see spay and neuter campaigns, aka birth control, for our furry friends…me thinks our species needs to practice what it preaches.

Outstanding.

Whadya knows. Them hyoomans is on a permanent picanic. Time to go on picanic baskets hunting spree. Tally hoo!

Time to go door to door and collect bear tax, cousins. You wants to stays, you pays, hyoomans. Pays in foods that is.

Bears have been wandering those same woods for thousands of years before any people showed up. So why is it that now the bears are the problem?

Maybe developers should be required to only build or remodel existing structures – at least until all the run down and empty stores and businesses are rebuilt as housing and new shops and businesses?

Here they are turning old pasture land into new urban centers while the older areas are full of empty buildings and vacant lots – lots of empty stores and old restaurants and such. Turn old strip malls into affordable housing – it’s not like the homeless don’t live there anyway. That sort of thing, before allowing development in more rural areas. The savings on infrastructure alone should be worth the cost of tearing down or remodeling buildings.

Our local mall was mostly torn down and replaced with apartments – a good use of prime real estate. Plenty more buildings that have sat empty for decades here – they need to get rid of the tax right-offs the owners get for their “losses” on vacant storefronts and either make them take the old buildings down or reuse them. Also make rezoning easier so commercial real estate can become residential.

:’(

Here in Arizona, it’s rattlesnakes! If you live on the extreme fringes of the Phoenix metro area, remember; they were here first!