Hunting & Fishing Coyote plot?
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We have the same problem around here. Yotes are getting bigger and more aggressive, I know two people personally who have had small dogs taken from their yards while they were watching and saw the whole thing. I dont think they have been introduced, I suspect rather that it is an abundance of small game because nobody hunts anymore, and if they do they hunt deer. Not many people are rabbit/coon/possum/squirrel hunting anymore, not like they used too. Rural family farms that used to be hunted are falling to the 5acre and 10 acre lot subdivisions, which can no longer be hunted by humans but are perfect hunting grounds for predators and breeding grounds for rabbits and such. I have seen an abundance of very large hawks as well, probably for the same reason. When nature has an abundance of food sources, and human predation decreases, natural predators grow in population until it balances.
Then again, the government did infect blankets with smallpox. Since the NSA is reading this post maybe they will chime in with the truth.
Then again, the government did infect blankets with smallpox. Since the NSA is reading this post maybe they will chime in with the truth.
Neighbors where I hunt had Yotes pull a small pony down.
I have a ton of pictures of that little guy since August.
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I have a ton of pictures of that little guy since August.
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NOT to open another can of worms...but look at the WOLF reintroduction to Montana and Wyoming.
FEW residents wanted them...but at a cost of hundreds of millions of Dollars we now have them...and a LOT of them too.
Areas that held huge deer and elk herds are now at a fraction of earlier populations. Over run instead by wolves.
During bow season in the Fall in parts of Western MT....... one is as likely to see a wolf come to a cow call as a bull.
I don't put anything past our Govt anymore.
FN in MT
FEW residents wanted them...but at a cost of hundreds of millions of Dollars we now have them...and a LOT of them too.
Areas that held huge deer and elk herds are now at a fraction of earlier populations. Over run instead by wolves.
During bow season in the Fall in parts of Western MT....... one is as likely to see a wolf come to a cow call as a bull.
I don't put anything past our Govt anymore.
FN in MT
"Several years ago, Phillips said, he took a call from a Western Pennsylvania man who said someone he knew told him of a coyote with a State Farm ear tag."
If it were me, I'd avoid putting my company name on the offending coyotes. LOL
Pretty sure this is an urban myth.
If it were me, I'd avoid putting my company name on the offending coyotes. LOL
Pretty sure this is an urban myth.
Umm without knowing the truth. I will say a customer of mine who is in law enforcement indeed says that coyotes were brought to nj to handle the deer population. Dont know if it was some insurance plot as it didnt cross my mind to ask. Wouldnt doubt it. Living on the jersey shore we never had coyotes period. We are one of the most congested states in the country. All of a sudden 5-10 years ago certain towns are spotting more and more of them. Makes me think the officer was telling the truth. I dont buy the migrating from Canada nonsense unless coyotes can fly and land smack in the middle of very congested cities/towns without much if any woods or land for them to be on. With the human population growing there is less land for animals to occupy. Hell there is a deer bedding area with 3 adult and 3 baby deer 35-40 yards out from my back door of my apartment. The area is 100 yards long by 50 yards wide leading to another complex.
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IMHO, a 'coyote conspiracy' is baloney.
Have friends who grew up in central NY, living there the past 60yrs. Back in the day, they'd have to trek to the 'Dacks to hunt deer, there were hardly any whitetails locally. And turkeys were completely non-existant in that area...
Fast forward to today.
That same area of central NY is literally infested with deer. Turkeys are everwhere, can hear a dozen gobbles on any morning in May, usually more. With the abundance of prey species, the coyote population has been growing in leaps & bounds to fill the void as the apex predator in the food web...
Give a critter a chance, and it's gonna survive.
Give a critter as shrewd and adapatible as a coyote, and its going to thrive!
Have friends who grew up in central NY, living there the past 60yrs. Back in the day, they'd have to trek to the 'Dacks to hunt deer, there were hardly any whitetails locally. And turkeys were completely non-existant in that area...
Fast forward to today.
That same area of central NY is literally infested with deer. Turkeys are everwhere, can hear a dozen gobbles on any morning in May, usually more. With the abundance of prey species, the coyote population has been growing in leaps & bounds to fill the void as the apex predator in the food web...
Give a critter a chance, and it's gonna survive.
Give a critter as shrewd and adapatible as a coyote, and its going to thrive!
^ same here.
i'd give more credence to the migration theory, as it holds much more water than the importation conspiracy theory. critters will do what critters will do.
same conspiracy goes on for the "mountain lions" being seen everywhere too. most that were recovered have tattoos and such that can be traced back to a game farm, private owners, or menagerie escapees. but ya never know what may have migrated back to it's home ranges from 100 years ago. there was a mountain lion that was tagged out west US a year or two ago, turns up in new hampshire.
we got confirmed hogs up here now too, migration or escapees from the before mentioned.
there's actually whitetail deer with cattle ear tags sighted / pictured within walking distance of my house, non PGC tagged (they are presently doing studies with tagged ones). so for ear tags, who knows what's going on.
the game folks and private industry put alot of $, time and effort into game species, makes no business sense to reduce that kind of take by importing things that will reduce that kind of take. makes more sense to issue more tags for a higher harvest, and more control over the results than packs of dogs roaming unchecked.
same as saying a yote was on the grassy knoll.
where wolves and yotes differ is that yotes aren't on the threaten or endangered list over the scope of the land mass. perhaps yotes were extirpated in areas still, but certainly not threatened or endangered in the grand scope of things over the last 100 or so years.
so we also have the juvenile bigfoot pictures on a trailcam here in Pa. (jacobs photo) - so we must have those too, probably relocated to Pa. by the FWS as their existence is nearly exposed out west due to overpopulation and urban sprawl. i met a guy in a black truck that smelt like a skunk ape, and he told me....
i'd give more credence to the migration theory, as it holds much more water than the importation conspiracy theory. critters will do what critters will do.
same conspiracy goes on for the "mountain lions" being seen everywhere too. most that were recovered have tattoos and such that can be traced back to a game farm, private owners, or menagerie escapees. but ya never know what may have migrated back to it's home ranges from 100 years ago. there was a mountain lion that was tagged out west US a year or two ago, turns up in new hampshire.
we got confirmed hogs up here now too, migration or escapees from the before mentioned.
there's actually whitetail deer with cattle ear tags sighted / pictured within walking distance of my house, non PGC tagged (they are presently doing studies with tagged ones). so for ear tags, who knows what's going on.
the game folks and private industry put alot of $, time and effort into game species, makes no business sense to reduce that kind of take by importing things that will reduce that kind of take. makes more sense to issue more tags for a higher harvest, and more control over the results than packs of dogs roaming unchecked.
same as saying a yote was on the grassy knoll.
where wolves and yotes differ is that yotes aren't on the threaten or endangered list over the scope of the land mass. perhaps yotes were extirpated in areas still, but certainly not threatened or endangered in the grand scope of things over the last 100 or so years.
so we also have the juvenile bigfoot pictures on a trailcam here in Pa. (jacobs photo) - so we must have those too, probably relocated to Pa. by the FWS as their existence is nearly exposed out west due to overpopulation and urban sprawl. i met a guy in a black truck that smelt like a skunk ape, and he told me....
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