The articles I catch about tick diseases cite global warming changing ticks' active season and breeding patterns, not overabundance of host animals. Not that I'm disagreeing, necessarily. I see lots of deer and rabbits, anecdotaly, more than would normally roam together if active predators were around. The urban hawks and foxes do at least seem to be taking advantage of the rabbit buffet in my neighborhood (I see them regularly, which is amazing), but yeah, no wolves roaming my suburbs. What's your theory as to why under-predation isn't getting cited? Families just wouldn't be ok with living in proximity with wild wolves so it's just not a solution that can be presented by media?

And opossums to eat the ticks that do make it there.