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Detroit is becoming it’s own version of ‘Life After People‘ episode. Via clickondetroit.com:

The red fox is carving out a place of its own deep into downtown, joining the ranks of raccoons, skunks, opossum, white-tailed deer and red-tailed hawks finding homes in untended lots, houses and buildings in the rusting one-time car capital.

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Found across all parts of the state, red foxes typically stick close to more rural areas.But Detroit’s dwindling population has meant less noise and more places for foxes to hunt rats, mice, voles, pheasants, cotton tail rabbits and even pigeons.Many neighborhoods have so few remaining houses that adjoining lots resemble small prairies and woodlands, and Detroit’s extensive freeway system and old railroad connections linking the inner city to less populated areas are now serving as routes for wildlife.”As we move out, wildlife moves in,” said Matthew Walter, a fox researcher at Antioch University’s New England campus in New Hampshire.

As I’ve said before, there is not one elected Republican (conservative or otherwise) within 20 miles of Detroit city hall. The city has not had a Republican mayor since Louis Miriani, who’s term ended in 1962. Detroit is an excellent example of what following Liberal Democrat policy leads to.

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