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For three days last week, Little Rock became arguably one of the most litigious cities in the nation, as 47 teams of high school students from 44 states, the Northern Mariana Islands and South Korea converged on the capital city in hopes of taking home the prize of being named the top trial team in the nation.

This was the first time Arkansas has hosted the National High School Mock Trial Championship.

On Friday and Saturday, high school trial teams competed in 12 courtrooms at the Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. District Courthouse in Little Rock and just blocks away in 10 courtrooms in the Pulaski County Courthouse in a series of four elimination rounds leading up to the main event Saturday night: the final championship round in the Garnett Thomas Eisele Courtroom at the federal courthouse, followed by an awards ceremony in the Wally Allen Ballroom at the Statehouse Convention Center.

After the dust settled following the championship round Saturday night between the two top teams in the nation, Ankeny High School in Ankeny, Iowa, and Albuquerque Academy from Albuquerque, N.M., the team from Ankeny High eked out a narrow victory over Albuquerque Academy to take home the top honors for 2023. Third place went to Montgomery Bell Academy from Nashville, Tenn.

Other awards were given out to the top 10 mock trial attorneys, the top 10 mock trial witnesses, the top three mock trial sketch artists and the top three mock trial courtroom journalists.

The team from Waukesha South High School in Waukesha, Wis., was awarded the Larry Bakko Professionalism and Civility Award, the only peer-nominated and selected award in the competition, in which the competing teams selected the team that demonstrated the highest level of civility and professionalism during the event. The award is named in honor of Larry Bakko of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., a longtime volunteer with the National High School Mock Trial Association, who died in 2013.

As the host state, Arkansas was allowed to field its two top-ranked state teams, said Jordan Tinsley, president of the Arkansas Mock Trial Foundation, which hosted the event. This year, Arkansas was represented by Conway High School and Springdale Har-Ber High School, which ranked number one and two respectively at the state competition. In the national competition, Conway High School placed 33rd and Har-Ber High School placed 40th.

Team members for Conway High School were Pennelope Wilson, Daniel Taft, Caley Miller, Natalie Hood, Avery Ferguson, Zirui Feng, Tanaya Deshpande, Rebecca Corona and Lexi Aikman. Matt Brown was the team coach and Casey Griffith the lead teacher.

Har-Ber’s team members included Mason Wait, Nora Shitandi, Adreana Perez, Carlos Pacheco, Samuel Myers, Yasmine Mejia, Megan Lucas and Gabby Cenobio. Non-competing team members were Elise Rhames and Robert Lucas. Monica Wiederkehr was the team coach and Joel Brown was the lead teacher.

Tinsley, a Little Rock defense attorney, said mock trial training offers a large array of benefits to students, enabling them to develop skills such as critical thinking, analysis and communication to name a few, regardless of the career field students eventually enter.

This year’s event featured more than 400 students, with many of the teams coming to Little Rock accompanied by full contingents of supporters to observe the competition.

The event officially kicked off Thursday at the Old Statehouse Museum with a pin exchange on the lawn. Tinsley said the pin exchange is a social event that gives student competitors the opportunity to meet and greet one another and exchange lapel pins that are representative of each state of origin. Tinsley, who was a competitor in the national competition in 1997 as a ninth grader and in 2000 as a high school senior, said the pin exchange is intended to break the ice and give the high schoolers a taste of networking.

“When I competed,” Tinsley said, “I had a cup full of pins at the end.”

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Mayor Frank Scott gave opening remarks, welcoming the students to Little Rock. Sanders mentioned to the students that she and Tinsley were part of the first all-ninth grade team ever to compete from Arkansas.

“Thankfully, only one of us ended up becoming an attorney,” Sanders joked. “However, be careful what you sign up for because Jordan became the attorney and I became a politician, so the future could be pretty grim.”

Sanders credited Tinsley with helping prepare her “for a lifetime of arguing with other people.”

In an earlier interview, Tinsley talked about the 1997 competition.

“The case that year was, what if Elvis was murdered instead of died of an overdose?” he said. “It was totally fictional. The case alleged that Elvis’ manager poisoned him, I think using GHB, and it was sort of covered up. It was a kind of a silly case but it was a lot of fun.”

Asked what the verdict was that year, Tinsley laughed and said although teams are scored on a wide range of criteria by a panel of jurors, no verdict is rendered.

This year’s competition case involved a fictional criminal case titled the State of Arkansas vs. Scout Cumberland, which involved the homicide of a school board member by another school board member, with New Mexico’s prosecution team arguing for premeditated murder and Iowa’s defense team claiming self-defense. The trial was presided over by Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr., and the jury was made up of a panel of judges and attorneys from around the nation as well as from Arkansas.

Arkansas’ panel members included Chief Arkansas State Supreme Court Justice John Dan Kemp; former Associate Justice Annabelle Imber Tuck, who is the first woman ever elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court; U.S. Attorney Jonathan Ross; Lisa Peters with the Federal Public Defenders Office in Little Rock; state Solicitor General Nicholas Bronni; Arkansas Bar Association President Joe Kolb; Arkansas Bar Association President-Elect Margaret Dobson; and Arkansas Bar Foundation President Ed Oglesby.

Under National High School Mock Trial Association rules, teams consist of six to nine official members assigned to roles representing the prosecution/plaintiff and defense/defendant sides, with six members participating in any given round. In each round, three members serve as attorneys and three serve as witnesses. Time limits are strictly enforced. The trial scenario switches from year-to-year between criminal and civil trials.

The National High School Mock Trial Competition began in 1984 in Des Moines, Iowa, with five states competing: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Nebraska took top honors that year.

The field doubled to 10 states the following year as Nebraska hosted the competition, with Texas taking first place. By 1987, 34 states and Washington, D.C., competed in the nation’s capital, with Arizona and Iowa taking the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. Arkansas is the 27th state to host the competition in its 38-year history. Seven states — Arizona, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina and Wisconsin — have hosted the competition twice, and Georgia has hosted three times.

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EL ROCÍO, Spain — This time of year, the edges of the lagoon used to creep all the way up to the town’s main square. The water would reflect the bright white walls of the church. Pink flamingoes stalked the shallows.

Those days are gone. The central promenade of El Rocío, a sleepy Andalusian village bordering Spain’s Doñana National Park, is now lined with dusty shrubs. 

Under pressure from both climate change and intensive farming, Doñana is running dry — pitting conservationists against farmers who extract water from the UNESCO-protected park, a combination of marshes, sand dunes and pine forests that shelters endangered species and serves as a key stopover for migratory birds. 

The long-simmering conflict is boiling over ahead of Spanish municipal elections later this week, as regional conservative politicians seek to cast themselves as the farmers’ allies, promising water supplies that activists say are long gone. 

The battle for the future of Doñana has also become a European one, with Brussels threatening Spain with financial sanctions over Andalusia’s plan to allow more irrigation. Meanwhile, conservative lawmakers in the European Parliament are lining up behind Spanish farmers — part of a wider backlash against environmental legislation affecting agriculture as the campaign for next year’s European election gets underway.

In El Rocío, an hour’s drive from the Andalusian capital of Seville, farmers having breakfast in a village café a few hundred meters from the Doñana wetlands lamented not their deterioration, but the increasing water scarcity that threatens their livelihoods. 

“I own some cattle, and I need it to rain … This year, grass hasn’t grown because it doesn’t rain, and seedlings haven’t grown,” said Domingo Pérez Toro, 68, who owns a livestock farm that taps water from the aquifer below the park. 

But scientists say intensive agriculture is a major part of the problem, as it consumes huge amounts of water that is becoming more scarce with climate change. Campaigners warn the regional government’s strategy for helping farmers — a plan Brussels says breaks EU law — will be the “death knell” for Doñana.

Already, all that remained of the lagoon that used to border El Rocío when POLITICO visited was a small pond off in the distance — the last “0.01 percent” of the iconic wetlands, according to Felipe Fuentelsaz, a veteran of Spain’s WWF branch who has worked in the area for two decades.

The situation is “absolutely dramatic,” he said. 

Hungry berries

While Spain’s federal government is run by the center-left Socialists, the conservative Popular Party rules the region, pitting the Andalusian government against Madrid on many issues — including water. 

And the region consumes a lot of water. 

Europe’s appetite for berries prompted local farmers to switch from crops such as corn and nuts to the “red gold” in the 1970s and 80s; today, Huelva province near Seville is responsible for 98 percent of Spain’s berry production and 30 percent of Europe’s. 

In search of resources to feed their water-guzzling crops — 1 kilogram of strawberries requires about 300 liters — farmers started drilling wells to tap the Doñana aquifer. 

As conservationists began sounding the alarm over damage to the wetlands in the early 2000s, the then Socialist-led regional government set out to regulate irrigation. 

But it was slow to act, and only passed a law in 2014 — dubbed the Strawberry Plan — that legalized irrigation on some 9,000 hectares of land based on old data, excluding farms that had started tapping the aquifer without a permit in the meantime. 

Juan Espadas, secretary-general of the Andalusian Socialists, acknowledged that the plan produced “a problem that actually existed from that moment” by creating a group of farmers “who would not be able to regularize their agricultural area.”

The Socialists’ goal was to start closing illegal wells and supply legal farmers with water transferred from nearby rivers, said Espadas, speaking on the top floor of his party’s headquarters overlooking Seville. 

Yet while some illegal wells were closed down, illegal farms proliferated. The WWF estimates that legally irrigated farmland makes up 80 percent of the irrigated area around Doñana, while 20 percent of the land is irrigated illegally. 

As the reserve deteriorated, the European Commission stepped in, accusing Madrid of breaking EU conservation laws. In 2021, the EU’s top court ruled that Spain had failed to implement “a sustainable management of the groundwater bodies” feeding Doñana. 

Last year, the Commission warned Madrid that it needs to step up efforts to comply with the ruling. Andalusia, however, went the opposite way. 

Its conservative regional government promised to solve the issue with a new irrigation plan — reintroduced in March — that it says would legalize about 750 hectares of illegal farms around Doñana. (The WWF estimates it’s closer to 1,900 hectares.)

The regional parliament is expected to vote on the plan after Sunday’s election. 

Farmers divided

A drive through an area just north of Doñana leads through long stretches of plastic-covered strawberry plantations separated by patches of pine tree forest. 

Illegal farms have proliferated here, according to satellite data analyzed by WWF.

Fuentelsaz, the WWF campaigner, pointed to nearby wells — round white structures, some tucked away in the undergrowth, others built closer to the road and connected to reservoirs or several pipes distributing water among plantations. 

The farmers’ association of Almonte, which represents about 300 legal farms, fears there won’t be enough surface water left for them if illegal fields are legalized. 

Association spokesperson Manuel Delgado called the bill a “real barbarity,” arguing that “those who have been farming illegally for the last 10, 15 years are going to be rewarded with surface water to be able to irrigate on demand.” 

A strawberry farmer who spoke on condition of anonymity — fearing threats from farmers supporting the Popular Party’s plan — said he worries he would have to scrap half his crops if Spain’s drought persists and the law passes. 

That could force him to let go of workers and lose contracts with supermarkets, he said. 

He wants water transfers for legal farmers to be prioritized. “If we do not receive water from the aqueduct, the future is very dark,” he said. “Water is the essence of farming.” 

Farmers and many politicians also worry that the controversy over the regional government’s plans could become a reputational problem, as consumers become more aware of the environmental impact of the food they consume. 

“The noise that this proposal has caused in Europe is affecting our markets,” said Rocío del Mar Castellano, the mayor of Almonte, a berry-producing municipality at the heart of Huelva province.

She insisted that Almonte’s farmers want to preserve Doñana because they know the park “is the brand that gives quality to their product.” 

But not all farmers see it that way, and the battle over who should be granted access to water — and how much of it — is dividing the community. 

Julio Díaz, the spokesperson for the Platform in Defense of County Irrigation, which supports the Popular Party’s plan, asked to meet by a blueberry field a short drive from Almonte. 

Showing off the field’s state-of-the-art irrigation system designed to optimize water use, Díaz said the Popular Party’s bill would “return the land to the families from whom it was taken in 2014.” 

He called claims that there is not enough water a “lie” and added: “We don’t have a water park here. What we have is farmland that is cultivated so that people can eat.” 

While acknowledging that Doñana’s water reserves are in decline, Díaz argued that work obstructing water flow to the park carried out to help restore the wetlands after a mining incident is the main culprit. 

POLITICO’s requests to meet with members of his association, which claims to speak for about 1,500 farmers, were rejected. 

‘Impossible’ promises

Andalusia’s Popular Party argues its plan would help save Doñana by supplying illegal farms with water transferred from elsewhere.

“We have always been clear that the problem … requires solutions and not looking the other way. Those families of Huelva deserve it. They have been waiting for too long,” said Ramón Fernández Pacheco, Andalusia’s sustainability minister and government spokesperson.

The conservatives are under pressure from the far-right Vox, which has claimed credit for the plan. “The problem of the countryside is not the climate apocalypse. In Spain, there is enough water for everyone,” said Jorge Buxadé, a Vox MEP and spokesperson for the party. 

Critics, including the Socialists, say there aren’t sufficient water resources to supply this many fields. They also fear granting amnesty to illegal farms will inevitably put more pressure on the wetlands.

Spain’s Ecological Transition Minister Teresa Ribera, a member of the Socialists, told POLITICO the plan was “crazy.”

“We already had a problem with water, and the impact of climate change on water,” she said. “And then we got this move from [the Popular Party] who come in saying ‘hey, we might create additional problems.’” 

But critics argue the Socialists are also responsible for Doñana’s decline, having turned a blind eye to the overexploitation of the wetlands for decades. 

“They’re trying to put the blame on the regional government, despite the fact that the Socialists ruled Andalusia for 37 years,” said Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, an MEP for the Popular Party and former mayor of Seville.

The conservatives accuse the federal government of delaying crucial infrastructure works to make the promised water transfers happen. Ribera blamed the delays on the conservatives.

Pieter de Pous, a senior adviser at environmental think tank E3G, said both parties were making promises that did not line up with Spain’s climate reality.

Doñana, he said, is “a textbook case of both center right and center left making impossible promises around water availability … that water just isn’t there.” 

Enter Brussels

Activists and scientists fighting for Doñana’s survival are losing trust in Andalusia’s two main parties.

Some have turned to sabotage: This past weekend, a group called Climate Rebellion Huelva posted footage showing activists destroying an illegal well. Others are calling on the EU to take a stronger stance.

“I hope that Europe can do something … [to] put pressure on Andalusia,” said Paula Hidalgo Rodriguez, a researcher at the Doñana Biological Station, while taking part in a protest against the government’s plans in Seville earlier this month. 

Rodriguez, 28, carried a banner featuring two hand-drawn flamingoes. “Doñana is drying up,” said the first one. “As are the brains of its leaders,” quipped the second. 

But the EU’s interventions have sparked strong blowback among conservative lawmakers in the European Parliament, who have been pushing to roll back plans for tougher green legislation on pesticides and nature restoration. 

Following the Commission’s threat in March to hit Spain with financial sanctions, Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius held several meetings with various political actors in Spain in an effort to resolve the issue. 

The move infuriated the European People’s Party (EPP), of which the Popular Party is a member, with its chair Manfred Weber denouncing the EU executive’s behavior as an “unacceptable” interference in national politics. 

He accused Sinkevičius of campaigning in favor of Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who faces a general election later this year on top of this week’s municipal vote. The Popular Party is currently leading in the polls nationwide. 

Weber’s reaction to the EU’s involvement in Doñana — and the growing campaign of his EPP to freeze environmental legislation — signal that the conservatives are likely to try to seize on farmers’ discontent as European climate policy increasingly turns toward agriculture and land use. 

The Commission’s Green Deal chief Frans Timmermans this week pleaded with European Parliament lawmakers not to undermine the bloc’s nature ambitions, in an argument that echoes what critics of Andalusia’s irrigation plans are calling for.

“The climate and biodiversity crises are the biggest threats to food security, and therefore also to the subsistence of our farmers,” he told MEPs. 

To protect farmers, he said, “we must restore nature. We cannot restore nature unless we stop destroying it.” 

Antonia Zimmermann reported from El Rocío; Zia Weise reported from Brussels. Susannah Savage and Giovanna Coi contributed reporting.

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My mind raced, cycling through a rogue’s gallery of suspects. It wasn’t a deer, a squirrel, or raccoon. And no rabbit systematically works its way down row after row, leaving only nubs in its wake. No, it had to be a groundhog.

The groundhog, as New England gardeners have known for time immemorial, is a formidable adversary. One ravaged Henry David Thoreau’s bean patch at Walden Pond. “My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks,” he lamented. “The last have nibbled for me a quarter of an acre clean.”

The Algonquin people are thought to have called the critter “wuchak,” for “digger,” which English settlers rendered as “woodchuck.” He’s had other names — whistle pig, land beaver — but as for me, I just call him a glutton who grows fat on the fruits of my labor.

This rodent of unusual size is both intelligent and social, able to alert their fellows to danger with a high-pitched whistle (hence: whistle pig). When cornered, they can be quite fierce, defending themselves with their incisors and front claws.

But I was angry and ready to fight, too. I wasn’t about to be bullied by an overgrown squirrel. I needed to stop him, whatever it took.

My ground war with the groundhog took place more than 25 years ago, and yet I still remember it like it was yesterday. Every year at this time, I think back to what I did wrong and what I might have done right, and what I’ve learned along the way.

A whole variety of folklore exists on ways to rid yourself of a groundhog. Some say you should gather hair from your barber and spread it around the perimeter of the garden. But I’m suspicious. Animals quickly adapt to human scents, and I’m betting the hair makes the woodchuck briefly pause and ponder, then proceed straight to your peas and lettuce. Others swear by dumping used cat litter in the groundhog’s hole. Please. The burrows can stretch some 50 feet and I had only one cat, a scrappy stray my wife and I had adopted named Casper.

So my first strategy was to finally finish the chicken-wire fence I had partially erected. It cost me about $80 in materials, and a few hours in labor, and that felt like a small price to pay. And it worked — for all of two days. The groundhog simply tunneled under the fence and sheared off what was left of the radish stems, emerging bean sprouts, and parsnip greens.

I called a fellow gardener for advice. She suggested I buy a humane “live” trap. “I guess woodchucks need to eat like the rest of us: after all, they are as much God’s creatures as we are.”

Then she added, “If you do catch him, make sure you kill him — I don’t want him coming over here.”

I bought the trap, shelling out $65, and I promptly caught a skunk. It was such a job getting the skunk out without being sprayed that I decided to retire the trap to my garden shed for the time being.

My next idea was to keep a handful of small rocks by the back door. I figured if I saw the portly pig and pelted him, the harassment might make him think twice about returning. I’d only seen the groundhog once but figured he’d be easy to hit because he seemed a slow, waddling sort.

I was becoming obsessed, like the groundskeeper in Caddyshack. First thing every morning, I found myself scanning my garden from my bedroom window on the second floor of our home. Sure enough, one morning I saw him. I raced downstairs, still in my underwear, quietly opened the back door, grabbed some stones and charged.

The groundhog heard me coming and raised himself on his haunches. I threw the stones. I’m not sure if I hit him but he did flee at a surprisingly fast gallop. The next morning, he was back again.

He seemed bigger than Casper — grown rotund, no doubt, on my greens and sugar peas. Casper never attempted to intervene, choosing instead to ignore the groundhog and go about his life.

I wondered what Casper knew that I didn’t.

It was time to escalate this battle. It didn’t take me long to find a hole in the woods behind my house. While I examined it, the groundhog himself came barreling down the hill and disappeared into a second hole, no more than 15 feet away from me. Groundhogs make their burrows with multiple entrances, getting them close to food and so they have an escape route should a fox or another predator enter their home. These burrows are works of art, with cozy chambers lined with grass and leaves. The underground nests are higher than the main tunnel so water will not reach them and, being a fastidious sort, they actually dig a dedicated bathroom chamber. I imagine they also design in all sorts of antechambers for the purpose of lounging and gloating about the spoils they’ve stolen from above.

Finding all the woodchuck entrances and exits to their burrows is no easy task. While you might find the “main entrance” by seeing freshly dug earth mounded up, there are hard to detect “plunge holes” at certain times of year for quick access. These plunge holes have no telltale mound because woodchucks dig the opening from within the established tunnel. In short, the woodchuck is smarter than many gardeners, myself included.

Now that I’d found his base of operations, I made my move. I tried sealing the openings with rocks. He pushed the small ones aside like petty worries, the big ones he dug around. And always he was eating.

Over the summer, my well-fed enemy grew larger — and bolder. One day, I sat under our maple and gazed over the pitiful remains of my vegetable garden — a few lonely squash plants, trampled peppers, and a half-eaten eggplant. There were also several healthy tomato plants that he seemed to thumb his nose at, as if not worthy of his smorgasbord.

Once, I saw the groundhog emerge from the woods, sniff the air, and bound toward the garden. I chased him to his hole, grabbed the biggest rock I could find, and pushed it into the entrance. I’ve got you now, I thought.

And then I stepped on a hornets’ nest and went running back to my house.

By this point, it was psychological warfare, and the short furry guy was winning. My mental outlook was as desolate as my garden. I thought about the groundhog constantly. At work, I glumly envisioned him back in my garden, deciding which of my plants he was in the mood to nibble. My friends began to ask me for a daily “groundhog report,” which I didn’t find as amusing as they did. When I got home every evening, I greeted my wife with the same terse question: “Did you see him?”

A half-mile from my home was a small farm-stand run by an elderly man of Russian descent. Whenever I stopped to buy his peaches, apples, and plums, he was always brusque. But on one visit I asked him what I should do about a groundhog, and a hint of a smile emerged. “You must shoot it.”

“But I don’t have a gun.”

“Buy one. I shoot them in my asparagus, early spring.”

Shooting the critter was out of the question — even if I had a gun, which I didn’t, my suburban neighbors wouldn’t look kindly on me discharging firearms while they mowed their lawns and barbecued their burgers.

Still, the farmer and I became friendly, and I remember him telling me he and his brother immigrated to America in 1912, after traveling from Russia to England. He said they tried to stowaway on a ship, but were caught and kicked off. The ship was named Titanic. “I am a lucky man,” he said.

He was lucky, but I was not, because by now my garden looked like the Sahara, and I’d been pushed to my limit. I didn’t care anymore about a kinder, gentler garden with a picturesque fence separating the groundhog’s territory from mine in a microcosm of peaceful coexistence. That approach would never work, I figured, so I turned to another weapon in my arsenal — bombs. Yes, bombs.

My local garden store carried rodent smoke bombs, also known euphemistically as fumigation cartridges, that came with fuses and detailed instructions. The trick was to drop the bomb into the hole and then cover the opening with dirt so the noxious fumes would asphyxiate the groundhog. It’s a grim thought, but I was in a war. (Should you go with the bomb method, and you’re like me and don’t always think things through, here is a tip from an animal control officer: Don’t use the bomb on entrance holes near your home unless you intend to perhaps poison a family member, or burn down your house, or both.)

On my first try, I forgot to seal the exit hole and the fumes escaped. On my second, I sealed the hole, but extinguished the bomb with the dirt. But the third time … ah, success. Three days passed, and not a groundhog in sight.

On day four, I sat under my maple tree, lord of my acre once more. A movement caught my eye. And there he was, my nemesis, perched like a squirrel with lunch from my garden in his paws. Right beneath the tomato plants was yet another entrance to the burrow.

I began to wonder what I would do if I caught the groundhog, as unlikely as that seemed. I’m a fan of author David Grayson, who in his 1936 book, The Countryman’s Year, recounts a battle with his own garden thief. Unlike me, Grayson appointed a deputy — an elderly trapper who guaranteed that if shown the robber’s burrow he could flush him out. On the appointed day, some neighbor boys carried buckets of water to the mouth of the groundhog’s den in an alfalfa field. They dumped all of it down the hole at once. “Suddenly we heard a gurgling sound,” Grayson recounts, “then a snort, and a great furry head emerged at the entrance of the hole.” The trapper pinned down the groundhog with a broom handle, grabbed her by the nape of the neck, “and held her up, squirming, and showing her sharp white teeth.” He put her in a box and he was off, marching “up the road carrying the prize of war.”

Grayson never said what happened next, but I suspect the critter became the trapper’s dinner. Author Kerry Hardy, who has written about the Native Americans of New England, says we shouldn’t wrinkle our noses at the thought. “Woodchuck meat is quite pleasant to the taste,” he writes. “Unlike today’s feedlot-finished cattle, these guys are actually herbivores.” Native Americans roasted groundhog on sticks and let the copious amount of fat run off into the fire.

Even Thoreau himself, the great idealizer of nature, eventually grew exasperated with the groundhog in his bean patch. “Abandoning his not-too-strongly-held vegetarian principles,” biographer Walter Harding writes, “he trapped, killed and ate it as a culinary experiment.”

Don’t tempt me.

In the end, I abandoned the smoke bombs and other thoughts of murder with a measure of shame. Instead, I began to feel something like respect. I ultimately captured my adversary in a live trap (he could not resist cabbage). He had a large black snout, sizable claws, and whenever I approached, his back went up. In a fair fight, should one of us not have been locked in a cage, I have no doubt who would have won.

I drove him to a wooded conservation land several miles from my house and released him into the woods. This, I was quickly informed, is illegal in Massachusetts. (And as I write this confession, I wonder: Has the statute of limitations expired?)

Learn from my mistake. The reasons for not relocating wildlife range from potentially spreading disease to a new environment, to causing social stress because of potential conflict with the animals in the new spot, a brochure from the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife informs me. Besides, “other individuals of the same species” will likely be attracted to your garden anyway — and sometimes the original offender will make his way back.

The law forbidding the movement of wild animals means if you use a live trap because you don’t want to hurt the animal, you are wasting your time — you either have to let it go where you caught it, with little more than a stern warning, or you have to kill it. (The thought of drowning a woodchuck inside a barrel of water turned my stomach, even if he was my sworn enemy.)

So that brings us back full circle, to where we began: Our best defense against these hungry marauders is apparently a fence. You can install an electric one, but it’s a costly proposition, so that was out of the question for me.

Or you can erect a traditional fence with a couple of key features. Buy a 4-foot-wide roll of chicken wire and then fold it in half in an L shape. Two feet of wire then form the fence and 2 feet lie on the ground, encircling your garden. Apparently, most groundhogs don’t realize they can simply back up 2 feet and burrow under the fence.

My groundhog was obviously on the high end of the IQ range. He had burrowed from the woods 20 feet away and then popped up inside the garden. Other groundhogs, I’ve been told, simply climb over such fences. So you might want to make it 4-feet high and have some kind of baffle on the top that gives them another challenge to outwit.

Or you can skip the fences and do what I did: move. I can’t say my groundhog was the main reason my wife and I pulled up stakes in Franklin, bound for a new home in town just a couple of miles away. But I can’t say he wasn’t one of the main reasons, either.

That fall, not long after I’d driven my groundhog to the conservation land, I was packing up the contents of my garden shed when I heard a noise. Listening closely, I swear a mocking, half-whistle was coming from the woods.

Michael Tougias is the author of many books; his latest is Extreme Survival: Lessons From Those Who Have Triumphed Against All Odds. Send comments to [email protected].

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In today’s highly competitive business environment, understanding your target market and staying ahead of the curve is more important than ever. In this article, we will discuss Pache.co’s winning formula, which combines market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting to create unstoppable success. By implementing these strategies, you can effectively target your customer base, drive sales, and improve your overall market position. Read on to learn how market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting can transform your business strategy and lead you to victory.

Table of Contents

1. Market Segmentation
2. Market Intelligence
3. Market Forecasting
4. Combining Strategies for Success
5. Real-World Example of Pache.co’s Winning Formula
6. FAQs

Market Segmentation

Market segmentation is the process of dividing a broader market into smaller, more manageable groups based on shared characteristics. By doing so, businesses can create targeted marketing campaigns that appeal to specific customer segments, ultimately increasing the chances of success. Let’s explore the four primary types of market segmentation.

1. Demographic Segmentation

This form of segmentation is based on factors such as age, gender, income, education, and occupation. By understanding these demographic elements, businesses can tailor their offerings and messaging to cater to the needs and preferences of their target audience.

2. Geographic Segmentation

Businesses can segment their market based on geographic factors, such as country, region, city, or neighborhood. This strategy is particularly useful for companies with physical locations or those targeting markets with specific geographical preferences.

3. Psychographic Segmentation

Psychographic segmentation involves grouping customers based on their values, attitudes, interests, and lifestyles. This strategy enables businesses to create marketing campaigns that resonate with their target audience’s personal beliefs and preferences.

4. Behavioral Segmentation

Behavioral segmentation involves dividing customers based on their purchasing habits, product usage, and brand loyalty. This allows businesses to create highly targeted campaigns that speak to the unique needs of each customer segment.

Market Intelligence

Market intelligence involves gathering and analyzing data to better understand the market conditions, customer preferences, and competitors. This helps businesses make informed decisions and develop strategies with the best chance of success. Let’s discuss three essential components of market intelligence.

1. Competitor Analysis

Understanding your competitors’ strategies, strengths, and weaknesses can help you identify market gaps and discover opportunities for growth. Invest time in conducting thorough research on your competition, both direct and indirect, to stay ahead of the game.

2. Customer Insights

By analyzing customer feedback, preferences, and buying patterns, businesses can identify their areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. This information can be used to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty, leading to increased sales and market share.

3. Industry Trends

Knowing and anticipating industry trends can help businesses remain relevant and competitive. Keep an eye on the latest market developments,technologies, and consumer preferences to ensure your products and services meet the ever-changing needs of the market.

Market Forecasting

Market forecasting involves predicting future trends and developments based on historical data and current market insights. Accurate forecasts empower businesses to make strategic decisions, optimize resources, and mitigate risks. Here are some essential elements of effective market forecasting.

1. Data Collection and Analysis

Accurate market forecasts require comprehensive, up-to-date data on market trends, customer behaviors, and competitor performance. Collecting and analyzing this data is vital for developing reliable predictions and making informed decisions.

2. Forecasting Models

There are various forecasting models (such as linear regression, exponential smoothing, and time series analysis) that businesses can employ to predict market trends. Choosing the right model depends on several factors, including data availability, industry context, and the desired level of accuracy.

3. Regular Reviews and Updates

The market is constantly evolving, and therefore, market forecasts should be reviewed and updated regularly. This ensures that your business can adapt quickly to changes, stay competitive, and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Combining Strategies for Success

Effective market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting are essential components of Pache.co’s winning formula. By integrating these strategies, businesses can create highly targeted marketing campaigns, make informed strategic decisions, and stay ahead of the competition. Here are some tips for successfully implementing these strategies in your business.

1. Develop a Cohesive Strategy

Your market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting efforts should complement and reinforce one another. Develop a cohesive strategy that leverages the strengths of these individual methods for maximum impact.

2. Prioritize Data Quality

The success of your efforts hinges on the quality of the data you collect and analyze. Ensure that your sources are reliable and that your data is up-to-date, comprehensive, and accurate. Also, consider employing data validation and cleansing techniques to improve your data quality.

3. Collaborate and Communicate

Promote collaboration and communication between different departments involved in market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting. Sharing insights and aligning objectives can help your organization achieve greater success.

4. Monitor and Adjust

Regularly evaluate your market strategies’ effectiveness and make adjustments as needed. Continuously refining your approach will help maintain your competitive edge and drive growth.

Real-World Example of Pache.co’s Winning Formula

Pache.co, an e-commerce company specializing in consumer electronics, successfully used market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting to drive substantial growth. By analyzing demographic and behavioral data, Pache.co identified several high-potential customer segments, including young professionals with a preference for cutting-edge gadgets.
Through market intelligence, Pache.co closely monitored industry trends and competitors’ performance, allowing the company to refine and expand its product offerings to meet shifting needs. Pache.co also leveraged market forecasting to predict future growth areas, helping the company plan investments in new technologies and markets.
As a result, Pache.co experienced significant revenue growth, improved customer satisfaction, and a stronger market position, proving the power of combining market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting strategies.

FAQs

1. What is market segmentation?
   Market segmentation is the process of dividing a larger market into smaller, more manageable segments based on shared characteristics, such as demographic, geographic, psychographic, and behavioral factors. This enables businesses to create targeted marketing campaigns that appeal to specific customer segments.
2. What is market intelligence?
   Market intelligence involves gathering and analyzing data about the market, customer preferences, and competitors to make informed decisions and develop strategies with the best chance of success. Key aspects of market intelligence include competitor analysis, customer insights, and industry trends.
3. What is market forecasting?
   Market forecasting involves predicting future market trends and developments by analyzing historical data and current market insights. Accurate forecasts help businesses make strategic decisions, optimize resources, and mitigate risks.
4. How can businesses implement Pache.co’s winning formula?
   Businesses can implement Pache.co’s winning formula by combining market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting into a cohesive strategy that leverages each method’s strengths. This includes prioritizing data quality, promoting collaboration and communication between departments, and regularly monitoring and adjusting strategies as needed.

In conclusion, incorporating market segmentation, intelligence, and forecasting into your business strategy can foster greater success by enabling more targeted marketing efforts, informed decision-making, and anticipation of market trends. By incorporating Pache.co’s winning formula, your organization can drive growth and improve its competitive edge. Give it a try, and watch your business thrive!