ORIGINAL: livbucks
Ok C,
You seem to have come back and added a whole new thought to your previous post. Coyotes serve no purpose and here is why. For rodent control we have foxes, bobcats, hawks, eagles, snakes, fishers, weasels, raccoons,on and on.....When coyotes get established, they breed to vast numbers and slowly decimate everything until there is nothing left. They thrive at the expense of all else. One species relaces many. I have seen the wasteland that these critters leave in their wake, devoid of predator and prey. When everything is gone, they move on, only to repeat the process somewhere else. I don't want them extinct, just this side of it would be nice. Why, as a deer hunter, do you want a species that continually hunts, chases or otherwise harrasses even healthy deer, so that a few more mice will be eaten, mice that would be eaten anyway, by something that won't eat the fawns? When I look in the crystal ball, I see coyotes, and eventually wolves and cougars, replacing hunters..YUK!
Boy, So when I read the stories by US hunters from all over the country about all the deer that are spotted while hunting, what should I be thinking about the deer population? Sounds like it's doing just fine to me.
If you have land, set up some snares for yotes and then sell the furs and use their meat for bear bait or food. Least you could do is not be wasteful. Cause if you are willing to waste a coyote, then what else are you willing to waste?
Kill um, sure. Find a good use for them afterward though. Leave a few around, so you can do the same the next year. People complain about gophers too. The more of them there are, the more food for yotes.