Why predator hunting is a must in your hunting areas

[tracker]

Sorry to hurt anyones feeling but you ain't gonna wipe out the coyotes. We have been trying since the early 70's and they have moved in to stay.

[Big Jack]

Finally some satisfying confirmation bias? lol

No just common sense. None of the prey has the reproductive capabilities of the predator.

Coyotes are extremely efficient.

[Big Jack]

Along with rainbow trout, brown trout, chinook salmon, etc?

They provide a sporting opportunity. Wiping them out would be not only impossible, but unfortunate for those people who like to hunt them.

One major difference. We introduced those species and they have limited reproductive capabilities....

[Big Jack]

Sorry to hurt anyones feeling but you ain't gonna wipe out the coyotes. We have been trying since the early 70's and they have moved in to stay.

Well then you will have to try harder! No excuses!

Should also add not enough people go after them. If there was a provincial bounty they would be wiped out.

[ghost1324]

I know I can't wipe them out but I am going to shoot as many as possible. All the time I spend in bush I haven't seen any rabbits ground hogs and very little deer. Deer isn't over populated where I am coyotes are. Seen more of them then anything. Rabbits and deer were everywhere till a couple years ago. Yotes are starting to come into towns and getting A guy that hunts out my way just got a 52 pounder that doesn't sound like a normal yote. Wolf/Yote ? Maybe

[Fox]

One major difference. We introduced those species and they have limited reproductive capabilities....

Really? Ask the people who have problems with elk coming into their barns and eating the cattle feed, they were here at one point but we brought them back. The same happens with Turkeys, they are a problem in places. We also have problems with rabbits, but not as much as there used to be due to an increase in coyote populations.

It was not that long ago that people around Ottawa were complaining that there were too many deer and wanted to cull them all. The coyote population went up and with more predators/bad winters the deer population went down, the coyote population will follow.

Coyotes were not introduced, they moved from the west, they worked their way here from the west. The coyotes here have evolved to be larger due to larger prey animals and different dynamics.

Wiping out a natural species is not the answer, managing is.

[trappermatt]

It's takes a70% yearly harvest rate over a large area to even start to reduce coyote populations , as much as I hate to say it they are here to stay and many of the things some of enjoy much more will suffer because of it

[Fox]

I know I can't wipe them out but I am going to shoot as many as possible. All the time I spend in bush I haven't seen any rabbits ground hogs and very little deer. Deer isn't over populated where I am coyotes are. Seen more of them then anything. Rabbits and deer were everywhere till a couple years ago. Yotes are starting to come into towns and getting A guy that hunts out my way just got a 52 pounder that doesn't sound like a normal yote. Wolf/Yote ? Maybe

Rabbit numbers are down because of farming practices, every farmer wants to have the most amount of land worked and leaves very little for the animals, be that birds or mammals. Think about the local feral cat population too when you think about rabbit and bird declines.

[tracker]

We put quite a dent in the population last year and are at half as many as we were last year. But we are still finding some and like said what would we be hunting now if we had no yotes?

[duckduckgoose]

No just common sense. None of the prey has the reproductive capabilities of the predator.

Coyotes are extremely efficient.

LOL. I'm not sure that's how things actually work.