Lisa Morin: Resources help solve conflicts between people and wildlife

To The Daily Sun,

Recently in frustration upon choking on the smell of skunk for the fourth week in a row, and the almost constant smell of skunk every morning in downtown Laconia, I wrote a Facebook post that received a lot of traffic from others experiencing minor conflicts with local wildlife. I love wildlife and I don’t want to take harmful action against any of these furry offenders, so I looked up a couple of websites that offer some suggestions.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia has a Managing Wildlife Conflicts and Habitats tab on its website. I like this site because users can select specific information on the animal they are having a conflict with. The UNH Cooperative Extension also has a resource page on this subject: extension.unh.edu/resource/nuisance-wildlife-around-home, as well as the NH Fish and Game: wildlife.nh.gov/wildlife-and-habitat/nuisance-wildlife.

My hope is we can live and let live, and live together in way we don’t get in each other’s way.

Lisa Morin

Belmont