The policy change amends the year-round hunting schedule to restrict people from harvesting coyotes from April 15 to July 15. The late spring and early summer restriction is when their young are most dependent on their mothers.
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isn't that when you want to take the mothers out? No more mothers no more pups.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it matters much. Say what you will about coyotes they are incredible survivors and are going to thrive no matter what you do.
ReplyDeleteMakes total sense to me...have a season to kill coyotes because there's a lot of them and whoa, wait a minute, let's stop the killing so we can bring more into the world. Kind of like the politicians banning cigarettes then bitching that they're losing the tax revenue on cigarettes. Bureaucrats never make any sense.
ReplyDeleteIt's always coyote season.
ReplyDeleteBambie-huggers who are squicked out at the thought of 'yote cubs starving but don't care they can be shot every other time of the year.
ReplyDeleteRules based on feelings seem to always trump rules based on science or logic.
Yeah. Laws based on feeling over logic began once we let women vote. It's been all downhill ever since.
DeleteDon't coyotes help keep down the number of house cats? We should let 'em breed more.
ReplyDeleteThat's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Why would you restrict the hunting of vermin at any time? I can see preventing hunting in cities (where animal control has the resposibility) but not in the wild.
ReplyDelete"harvesting" coyotes? kill on sight is more appropriate (but I live in an open season state)
ReplyDeletemikey's right, yotes & hogs are damn near impossible to eradicate unless it's a fairly confined area....fun to try though
ReplyDeletemaybe the good NRC will come up with a sterilization program, or better yet, sharpshooters...fukkin nitwits
I can give you a pretty good idea what isn't being said. I live in the heart of Mid Michigan. Deer damage to crops and vehicles is pretty well documented. My neighbor has a block permit for deer. He gives me an average of 12 deer a year. Doesn't even touch the herd size.
ReplyDeleteA couple years ago most farmers around me stopped allowing coyote hunting on their property. Fewer coyotes meant fewer fawns taken mid April to Mid July when fawns are left alone while Mom goes to look for lunch. The deer population exploded. In my area you have unlimited doe permits, extended firearms seasons and all kinds of special hunts. I can still take you to winter herds of 50-100 deer all around me.
8 years ago I know of one hunter with dogs who took 26 female coyotes in one winter, in a 5 mile radius by my house. The population was knocked way back. For the first time since then I saw a pack of any size come back about a month ago.
I will bet Farm Bureau pushed this to cut down on deer-auto and crop damage claims. Just like they did with the extended seasons and expanded rifle zones.
Nobody wants to admit they are setting up Bambi and his Mom to end up as coyote crap. This is about controlling the deer herds and reducing costs to the insurance companies.
Well you can usually eat lots of venison, but prolly don't want to eat coyotes.
DeleteIf they try that shit in Tennessee, I won't shoot out of season the vermin and all their relatives of the ones who ate the stomach out of my brother's little white dog. Setting Conibear traps scare the hell out of me but I just think of what that damned devil did to poor little Opal.
ReplyDeleteBack in the eighties while stationed in Michigan, more than 20,000 deer were killed by cars every year. That's a lot of insurance claims. And they are hell on crops. The demonization of guns and hunting caused an explosion in the deer population. Fewer and fewer hunters every year. Got to do something. The coyotes don't need permits. Eod1sg Ret
ReplyDeleteHaving a closed season is almost as bad as requiring that one has to have a hunting license to shoot them during the open season.
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