Re: Coyotes and calves

Posted by NW Ohio Tim on September 07, 2011 at 21:45:17 from (76.76.36.32):

In Reply to: Coyotes and calves posted by rrlund on September 06, 2011 at 07:10:23:

hayray said: We have more people hunting coyotes then ever and we can't control the pop. Bison and passenger pigeions are not a equal comparison.

I agree, around here there are more people hunting than ever, but 30 years ago we didn't have coyotes here. There hunters aren't multiplying as fast as the coyotes.

We had an abandoned homestead at what we used to call the north farm, when I was growing up. It was overrun with woodchucks. When I was 13 and allowed to carry a gun by myself, I started walking the mile up there almost every day, sometimes twice a day, all summer. I promise you, by the next spring, the population had a very large dent in it. The soybean fields surrounding the farmestead showed the absence of chuck damage. By the following fall, I barely went up there anymore because there weren't enough chucks to make it worth the trip.

I guess that's not an equal comparison either.....

Why was there so much controversy when they repopulated the wolves at Yellowstone?? Because there were still people alive who remembered killing the population off and didn't want them brought back to kill cattle and sheep?? Which is exactly what happened when the wolves decided to ignore the borders of the park.

Again, not an equal comparison, I'm sure.

When I was in high school, every kid in the neighborhood trapped, me included. There wasn't a section of ditch that didn't have muskrat traps in it. There were years when farms didn't have any 'rats in the ditches because we over trapped them. I can take you down the same ditches this winter and will show you more 'rats than have been there over 30 years. There are prbably only 4 trappers in the county instaed of 4 in every section.

Once again.... not an equal comparison.

I just can't imagine that the answer to the problem is don't shoot anything and they will control themselves........ sounds like the same way of thinking that the knuckleheads use when they say cops shouldn't chase criminals, because someboday might get hurt....

I may be wrong though.....

Tim

This post was edited by NW Ohio Tim at 22:35:39 09/07/11 2 times.

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