    ‘Sentence 1: Escaped or abandoned raccoons have been  breeding in the wild for the past 20 years and have  damaged corn crops, watermelon and melon farms, and  rainbow trout hatcheries, the paper said.    Sentence 2 Raccoons, if they are escaped or abandoned.  tend to damage things- this is what has been happening  for the past 20 years - but many organizations are trying  to solve the problem.