Urban Sprawl

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pigeons, squirrels, and raccoons, but is drastically lowering the number of species that are not quite as hardy, she says. She notes that while standing in a suburban backyard, one may still hear birds singing, but the choir is not as diverse as it was before the subdivisions came and the mature trees were chopped down (Terris 257).

Shaw, on the other hand, shares her opinion that “wild animals are increasingly finding suburban life in the United States to be attractive.” She claims that “the idea of urban sprawl wiping out wildlife is simply poppycock” (Shaw 261). Shaw shares two phenomena which are fueling the supposed increase in wild animals. One is natural reforestation, especially in the eastern United States. The percent of forested land in New Hampshire alone has increased from 50 to 86 percent in just 100 years. The other, she claims, is suburbanization, or the expansion of low-density development outside cities, which provides a variety of landscapes and vegetation that ...

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