Coyotes are one species that deserves to go extinct. To hell with the animal rights nuts and environmentalists. If coyotes fulfill some vital role in the ecology, I have yet to hear of it.
They is what they is, Many plants would never propagate without them
They eat persimmons and the gut acid makes the seed viable.
Kill my chickens and you got to go.
I have noticed that since Coyotes moved in to my area I have been shooting fewer ground hogs during the summer.
I used to shoot at least two or three every summer.
Last year I shot one the year before none.
I would say there could be a correlation in those facts.
That being said, here in rural America we follow two rules, SoS - shoot on sight, and SS&SU - Shoot, shovel, and shut up.
As I get older, I don't like it. I feel bad now even taking a deer. But the reality is, at first sight of a nuisance on our small farm, the instinct kicks in. I move quickly and quietly to the door, grab the rifle which is always there, loaded, I exit, aim and fire.
Nature is beautiful and hard. As much as I love nature, I can’t escape it, neither can the ‘yotes.
Coyotes eat a lot of mice, I am told.
Article focuses on coyotes coming down from Marin.
Why not discuss from the south? There is a butt load of them on the peninsula.
When younger I rode my mountain bike in the area between the Water Temple and Montara Peak, and saw a coyote almost every single time I rode. They sometimes stalked me.
Lots and lots of them in the area of 280 and 92.
Maybe they are hunting the promiscuous homos at that scenic vista right there on 280.
*** “If coyotes fulfill some vital role in the ecology, I have yet to hear of it” ***
They feed mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and lice that would otherwise go hungry.