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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 3301479" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>Yeah, I no longer shoot coyotes while deer hunting after reading Coyote America by Dan Flores and doing a deep dive.</p><p></p><p>I think most "control" amounts to futile feel good stuff. People, especially cattlemen and hunters, have an highly emotional emotional hatred for coyotes.</p><p></p><p>The guy who owns my deer lease has a small cow calf operation and man he was all excited when the government trapper said he'd come out. I forget how long he ran traps but he caught 6 (SIX!) coyotes. Boy the landowner was happy to tell us that, like 6 dead coyotes was a huge dent in the population. I'm like dude do you think coyotes breed like elephants? But you can't tell most guys that. Those 6 dead coyotes were settling an emotional score. Seems like a waste of time and resources to me. Might be a fun job though.</p><p></p><p>Flores makes the case that you can shoot/trap problem coyotes and maybe make a difference in things like calf predation, but as far as controlling the overall population...coyotes determine their own population. Like you say if there's food there will be coyotes. Then there is the evidence that killing dominsnt coyotes in one spot is just giving free real estate to more coyotes to move in. You gotta hand it to those animals. They certainly are good at thriving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 3301479, member: 4319"] Yeah, I no longer shoot coyotes while deer hunting after reading Coyote America by Dan Flores and doing a deep dive. I think most "control" amounts to futile feel good stuff. People, especially cattlemen and hunters, have an highly emotional emotional hatred for coyotes. The guy who owns my deer lease has a small cow calf operation and man he was all excited when the government trapper said he'd come out. I forget how long he ran traps but he caught 6 (SIX!) coyotes. Boy the landowner was happy to tell us that, like 6 dead coyotes was a huge dent in the population. I'm like dude do you think coyotes breed like elephants? But you can't tell most guys that. Those 6 dead coyotes were settling an emotional score. Seems like a waste of time and resources to me. Might be a fun job though. Flores makes the case that you can shoot/trap problem coyotes and maybe make a difference in things like calf predation, but as far as controlling the overall population...coyotes determine their own population. Like you say if there's food there will be coyotes. Then there is the evidence that killing dominsnt coyotes in one spot is just giving free real estate to more coyotes to move in. You gotta hand it to those animals. They certainly are good at thriving. [/QUOTE]
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