Comments on: For the first time North Cascade signs warn hunters not to shoot wolves

By: atlas

atlas — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:43:08 +0000

cattle ranchers should have learned how to protected the cattle a hundred years ago instead there still blasting bullets a wolves

By: vicki

vicki — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:35:27 +0000

SmokyMtMan,
Very true!

By: SmokyMtMan

SmokyMtMan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:26:49 +0000

Vicki said: “Actually, I doubt coyote hunting pads much of the government’s pockets.”

I meant it the other way around. The millions of dollars the states and governments spend on killing coyotes goes into a lot of civilian pockets.

Like hunters, game and fish employees, trappers, the pilots, etc.

All that money goes somewhere.

By: Barb

Barb — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:13:28 +0000

As far as coyote “predator control” WildEarth Guardians is advocating for the removal of all lethal predator programs as carried out by Wildlife Services.

I hope they’re successful…. It’s a criminal like activity, using tax money to destroy native wildlife. They even kill coyotes in some areas in ADVANCE of “calving season.”

By: Barb

Barb — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:10:27 +0000

Save Bears, what really strikes me quite hypocritically is how some Aspen folks are often members of PETA yet they wear these expensive fur coats or coats with fur collars, leather shoes, etc. Pam Anderson recently said she didn’t know her sheepskin boots were from sheepskin.

By: catbestland

catbestland — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:17:43 +0000

Coyotes eat the heck out of Juniper berries too.

By: Save bears

Save bears — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:58:55 +0000

I know in Montana a lic is not required to hunt coyotes, any dufus with a gun can shoot them at any time of the year, I have not hunted in WA for many years, but it used to be that way in WA as well…

By: vicki

vicki — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:28:58 +0000

Actually, I doubt coyote hunting pads much of the government’s pockets. They fall into vermin category, and as such require only that you posses a small game license. (Atleast in the states I am awarre of.) That gets spread far and wide….small game consists of water fowl, rabbit, and many more species.
I do believe you can shoot them without a licenseon your own property.
They are not likely the primary species people purchse a license to hunt.
I know little about the cost of licenses to poison them though. That is a horrific way to die, and effects every scavenger or bug that feeds on the coyote once it dies.
Trapping is equally extreme, often injuring or crippling an animal and leaving them to suffer and die, or struggle to survive as a mamed animal.
You see signs about coyotes too. They say more like “Danger, Coyotes have been known to bite humans” and “Do not feed the wildlife” with their pictire crossed out with a big red line!
Signs have come to be a symbol of what is wrong, and usually come about after a problem has been a proble for quite some time. They rarely reflectthe human factor involved….and hardly help any species, even wolves.

By: Save bears

Save bears — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:28:20 +0000

Although, I know it rubs many the wrong way, but there is actually a very good market for coyote pelts in the fur market, it is used in a wide variety of products, including of course fur jackets and such..I have seen prime fur/hides sell for $125 each in many stores in Montana and Wyoming…

THAT SAID, please don’t think that means I condone the fur trade, I am not in favor of the fur trade and believe its day has past..but just posting an observation I have made around the rocky mountain states.

By: Jon Way

Jon Way — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:25:42 +0000

Hi agree with Vicki and Ralph’s comments of essentially phsychological effects (not practical) of killing coyotes. I find it moral repugnant that anyone would need to kill anything for phsychological gain. For that reason alone, I think there should be restrictions on killing a social, intelligent species like the coyote/wolf since there is little effect on its populationn status. It is inexcusable to allow the random slaughter of them for someone’s personal gain and I hope to work with others to create a national canid protection act to reflect that – especially on our public lands.