There was a very good reason for the coyote population being small.
A large coyote population and a significant human population are oil and water. They don’t mix at all.
Coyotes will feed on anything available from older cows to young calves to chickens and even to your favorite pooch.
When the tree huggers decided to reintroduce the American mountain lion into California, people were excited about it.
Now that those cougars are attacking hikers and wandering into the cities, not so much excitement.
Unintended consequences will bite you in the rear end every time.
Government doesn’t have to explain or apologise.
When I moved to where I’ m living right now (22 years ago), there were cottontails, jackrabbits and Gamble’s quail all over the place. They are all gone now. You may see a cottontail, a young one, every now and then before a coyote scores it. Da ecosystem now consists of only bubonic plague infected rats and prairie dogs and hanta virus infected field mice. Thanks environazis! Good job!