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Federal Hunt in Arizona Kills 200 Coyotes
AP ^ | 1/29/05

Posted on 01/29/2006 5:43:40 PM PST by Mr. Brightside

Today: January 29, 2006 at 17:40:25 PST

Federal Hunt in Arizona Kills 200 Coyotes

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ELGIN, Ariz. (AP) - Federal authorities have killed 200 coyotes in southeast Arizona in the past three weeks after ranchers complained that they were eating calves.

The hunt, which ended Friday, was conducted from aircraft as part of a program run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The shootings took place on private and public land used by 10 to 15 ranchers, the Arizona Daily Star reported Sunday.

No documentation was available last week on how many calves had been killed, but the government said it has confirmed losses.

Rancher Rex Dalton said every lost calf costs him $500 to $650 - the amount it could have fetched if it lived to maturity.

"I have seen coyotes attack my calves three times," Dalton said. "I've also seen others with their tails or noses chewed off."

Environmentalists were upset that the government gave no advance public notice. They call the program inhumane and ineffective.

The 200 animals represent 1 percent or less of the area's coyote population, and new ones will arrive within months, Arizona Game and Fish officials said.

Teresa Howes, a USDA spokeswoman, said the agency doesn't issue news releases on the activity "because we do work for private owners."

Ranchers pay $200 an hour for the aircraft rental and staff time, she said.

Aerial gunning is the cheapest and most efficient way to kill and remove coyotes, allowing agents to ensure they don't hit other wildlife, Howes said.

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To: Mr. Brightside

That picture and all the other pictures I have ever seen of coyotes make them seem puny. All the coyotes I have ever personally seen in both Kansas and here in s.e. Michigan have been about the size of a large German Shepherd........


21 posted on 01/29/2006 6:37:32 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I break for pikas, swerve for skunks and accelerate for possum......squirrels are on their own)
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To: Hot Tabasco
"All the coyotes I have ever personally seen in both Kansas and here in s.e. Michigan have been about the size of a large German Shepherd."

I live in a suburb that has never seen coyotes before, but they're starting to show up now. Couple weeks ago I saw one at 3:00 a.m. from close up; I'd say it was easily the size of a medium German Shepherd.

I've seen wolves close up in a wolf sanctuary place, where the owner gets into the fenced in area with the wolves and interacts with them. The coyote I saw was actually a little bigger than some of those wolves.

22 posted on 01/29/2006 7:22:56 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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To: TheCrusader

More than likely it was a crossbred coyote.


23 posted on 01/29/2006 7:31:11 PM PST by Chewbacca (Hell knows no fury than fiery habenaro Dorito's eaten before bedtime.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Environmentalists were upset that the government gave no advance public notice. They call the program inhumane and ineffective.

One shot, one kill. How is that inhumane?

24 posted on 01/29/2006 7:35:06 PM PST by HolgerDansk ("Oh Bother", said Pooh, as he worked the bolt.)
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To: DugwayDuke

A lot of hunter - types would actually love to come out to some wide open ranch and call in a few coyotes.

Like me for example. I wouldn't change'em a dime.


25 posted on 01/29/2006 7:50:09 PM PST by mad puppy ( The Southern border needs to be a MAJOR issue in 2006 and 2008)
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To: Mr. Brightside

***Environmentalists were upset that the government gave no advance public notice. They call the program inhumane and ineffective. ***

200 less meat eaters to worry about! Sounds effective to me!


26 posted on 01/29/2006 8:04:04 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: no-to-illegals

Mexico is in the process of training 70,000 more coyotes...
wrong type of coyotes....okay never mind.

SSS. Shoot, shovel, and shut up.

Works for me on both.


27 posted on 01/29/2006 8:06:36 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Mr. Brightside
Aerial gunning is the cheapest and most efficient way to kill and remove coyotes, allowing agents to ensure they don't hit other wildlife, Howes said.


28 posted on 01/29/2006 8:10:01 PM PST by kstewskis ("There you go again..." R.R.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

LOL


29 posted on 01/29/2006 8:21:00 PM PST by no-to-illegals
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To: Mr. Brightside

Do they not have a coyote hunting season. We do in Arkansas. Plus anyone can get a deprivation permit and shoot them year round.


30 posted on 01/29/2006 10:16:03 PM PST by therut
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To: Mr. Brightside

I live about 25 miles west of the ocean in south east Florida. It is country here and at night especially on a full moon you can hear coyotes here. Have seen a few run over by trucks on the roads too.
Can be scary when you see a few of them roaming together.
Should be shot along with the other kind of coyotes.


31 posted on 01/30/2006 3:41:36 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: xone
I went to hear Dave Foreman, the eco-terrorist, speak at a local university. A crowd of 1000 listened as Dave bragged about helping "introduce" black-footed ferrets to some area of the country, I forget where, and he went on to say with a smile, 'house cats in that area are now disappearing rapidly.' To which a good part of the enraptured audience laughed. The concept of humane and effective never entered the picture.

Hunters here have started a coyote hunt in February to help cull their numbers. Coyotes are difficult to hunt successfully, though success can be had.

At the end of the program, Dave said he'd been in the area before and that he preached at that time to a smaller audience. He said he had asked those there to howl like wolves at the end and he extended the invitation to those gathered to 'howl like wolves' and he led a them in a juvenile howl at the end of his sermon.

It was a chilling experience, especially for an area that prides itself on its hunting and fishing traditions, and is unaware of the efforts of eco-terrorists like Foreman to undermine all that we hold dear.

32 posted on 01/30/2006 4:40:12 AM PST by Simo Hayha (An education is incomplete without instruction in the use of arms to defend oneself against harm.)
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To: therut

A lot of places there aren't seasons. They are varmits, and are legal year round.

In Arizona, there is a year-round season on coyotes and no bad limit in most of the state. The AZ Fish and Game website say hunters take about 13,000 coyotes every year.

If their numbers get too high, they do become a problem.


33 posted on 01/30/2006 4:52:32 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Simo Hayha

'eco-terrorist'

They would be on the shoot list as well.


34 posted on 01/30/2006 7:06:52 AM PST by xone
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To: Hot Tabasco
That picture and all the other pictures I have ever seen of coyotes make them seem puny. All the coyotes I have ever personally seen in both Kansas and here in s.e. Michigan have been about the size of a large German Shepherd........

...or larger. almsot mistook one for a small deer watching him pass thru some brush. as large as they are i wonder at the intellegence of DNR officers here. its suggested the .22LR is acceptable for coyote hunting.
35 posted on 01/30/2006 11:37:55 AM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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