We Need A “More Sophisticated Understanding” Of Coyote Management
January 6, 2010
In Maine’s debate about what to do about predator control, some towns and local sporting clubs have started up coyote hunting contests in hopes of helping to save a deer or two. In places the deer herd is beyond serious trouble, it’s become unsustainable and will be extirpated. The contests have stirred up protests from the usual groups. The Bangor Daily News today in an editorial said, “But a more sophisticated understanding of the role coyotes play in the ecosystem is overdue.”
Just what does that mean? Watch and listen and find out.
Tom Remington
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Here in Wyoming the fish and game fly and shoot the coyotes fairly regular as well as set out poison and trap the coyotes. Also some clubs put on coyote hunting contests and you can hunt them 24/7/ 365 and I can tell you that you would think it would thin them out some but in the last twenty years that I have actually been paying attention to the coyote population here I can’t see much for results as far as thining them out.
So unless Maine has a better idea of how to slow them down I don’t see much chance for the deer up there..
Maybe predators can live on thin air, Bankers do..
I just like to watch the hats…….hey, you’re not sophisticated, you’re for real! (the old root of the word, sophistry, was “a false argument; sophism”)
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