I remember the appearance of those three as you do, Mike. First, in my area of GA, the coyotes began showing up in the mid to late '70s. It was pretty certain by the GA DNR that they had been transported into GA by fox hunters. Then, I saw my first fire ant bed in '80 or '81. Then we began seeing road killed armadillos in the mid to late '80s.

I never dreamed the GA DNR would be so successful at growing the deer population that they would become such a nuisance to vehicles and row crop farmers like myself. Politics makes strange bedfellows, I once heard. Agree, because now the coyotes kill tens of thousands of fawns annually. MO did a study that showed that a female coyote kills an average of 15 fawns annually. That's a big help to me.

May God bless America and those who defend her.