ORIGINAL: DougE
Ok,let me get this strait.Your friend did better on yotes 5 years ago which is three years after they appeared.How can that be?I thought they were all over now.Furthermore,I wasn't aware that we hada bad winter 5 years ago.From my observations,coyotes do an aweful lot of traveling on logging roads and skidder paths at all times of the year,regardless of thepresence of snow.
its hard for me,i guess to get thru to you..when there is snow,yotes will walk the roads that are used,snow is less there..small mice etc will be in the storm drains..they go there during winter,so do other animals..
if snow is less, yotes will stay on logging roads etc MORE as its easier for them..if no snow,they will stay on them all time and pipelines etc..
snow is what brings them to the ROADS WE DRIVE..walk the roads, as i do, and se if you find any poo when there is NO SNOW..then walk roads after a SNOW STORM..you will find poo..
what i was trying to get thru to you, us trappers put traps ALONG ROADS for yotes..if the snow is less. like this year and last etc. less yotes will be caught..they will be WAYBACK, like is buzzword on logging rds, pipelines, deer trails..
my friends traps cover 4 counties,elk, cameron, potter,clinton, you believe that..he starts daily at 5 am and gets home at 6pm..he also keeps me in touch on WHAT DEER DENSITY HE IS SEEING..
hell, he is there everyday, 7 days a week..he is seeing VERY FEW DEER..maybe they are WAYBACK,hmmmmmmmmm...