Photos from space show 11,000 beavers are wreaking havoc on the Alaskan tundra as savagely as wildfi

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34. Same thing happened in Western Ky where I used to farm.

We figured the great influx of coyotes culled them out of the neighborhood. When I was a kid the Ohio river flood plain was all rabbits, the occasional fox and birds. When I came home, 1982, to live after around 6 years away there were deer eating the edges of the soybean fields and ground hogs digging up the foundations of tobacco barns. They pretty much disappeared, as did the rabbits, when the coyotes came in the mid 80's. The beaver increase peaked in the late 90's. Haven't lived there since 2003 so I'm unaware of the latest "scourge". Probably penguins. A lot of the species migration must be from habitat disturbance. There was a push for drainage in the 70's which opened up a lot of woodland to farming. Whatever was living in those old swampy woods had to move somewhere. I've seen deer swim the river from Indiana. They had to be pretty determined because the river is around 3/4 to 1 mile wide there. 20 miles wide during winter-spring flood. Female and a fawn, both made it, and we watched them come ashore. It seemed you could have walked up to them and petted them as they stood there, they were so tired.