I’ve been pondering over Russell county and why its running a good 10-15% ahead of all the other plantation counties that surround it……I think its simply the structural layout of the major highways and rivers dictating those coyote dispersal routes……The eastern half of the county is squeezed between 431 and the big river and may be doing better than the western part giving the county that overall bump……431 is a big wide gap compared to a small highway and has much higher rates of nighttime traffic that has the potential to influence transient flow……
I think GPS studies have shown that the landscape has voids of space here and there between all of the resident yote territories and that’s how these transients are flowing around…..I think the difference in some areas versus others is the difference in the amount of transient flow occurring through those void spaces……Again its that idea of pressure being squeezed out of the path of least resistance….A lot more pressure is flowing through some voids than others…..Also remember that these really rural plantation areas have a lot higher reproduction than mortality……while the cities likely have higher mortality than reproduction…..these things dictate flow from one areas to another
That gap in Russell Co between 431 and the river for example likely has its residents but probably has minimal transient flow in the voids…..Compare that to southeast Elmore county where that landscape funnel occurs on the Tallapoosa and you likely have a heavy flow of transients moving through voids there…..Different rates of “pressure” escaping from the highly reproductive area
