Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Dancing with Wolves (in Cohousing)

[lasai (lasai]

Hi Stella and everybody from the cohousing-list,

this reminded me of an article I read in the spectator about the serious
deer problem they have in the Raleigh/Durham area.
The scientific triangle is growing, the neighborhoods are becoming
larger.....but the deer herds are still there. A more seroius problem than I 
expected.
An important aspect for housing in general.
But read more here:

http://www.spectatoronline.com/2001-12-20/news_cover.html


Claudia Lasai
Raleigh

> Now there's a subject line! Your editor here with an idea buzzing about in
> her brain about cohousing and the environment (a core theme for this
> growing issue). Given the shared environmental and sustainability goals
> many of us have, what is it ACTUALLY like for a community to live in
> balance with "nature." What experience have any of you had with so-called
> wild creatures who may choose to inhabit the environment with you? I am
> thinking most immediately of the coyotes who came back to the hill when
> Nyland restored the prarie, along with foxes, snakes, and so forth, the
> prarie dogs that reinhabited the designated "park" next to Commons on the
> Alameda .... do any of you have stories about the sometimes precarious
> balance of  living in cohousing/nature?
> 
> Stella
> 617-491-0096

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