Coons can be a serious problem. In the Everglades there is the Wilderness Waterway, a 110 mile canoe trail, with camp sites, some of them just platforms on stilts, built along it. The locals refer to these as mosquito feeding stations. The thing is the coons that live in the mangroves (poor bastards, but probably reincarnated politicians) are desperate for fresh water. The only way to keep your water safe is to keep it inthe boat and anchor off shore. Even a rope line lets them run up it, You just have to wade.
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