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Two fatal coyote attacks have been confirmed by experts:
On August 26, 1981, an urban coyote grabbed a three-year-old girl named Kelly Keen in the driveway of her mother and father’s home in Glendale, California and dragged her across the street. Her father rescued her by chasing the animal away and rushed her to Glendale Adventist Medical Center, but she died in surgery due to blood loss and a broken neck because of the incident.[2][4]
On October 27, 2009, two eastern coyotes mauled a nineteen-year-old singer-songwriter named Taylor Mitchell at Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia. She was on a break from her concert tour when they stalked and chased her down on the Skyline Trail. An air ambulance airlifted Taylor to Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, but she died after midnight from severe injuries and blood loss that were sustained during the incident.[5]

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Since 1981, that’s nearly 40 years, there have been 2 fatal attacks by coyotes on humans. As a multi gun owner myself, and avid outdoorsmen, I have no objection to people killing them here and there if their menacing their children or whatever. But, I am not in favor to wiping them out and I can assure you they provide a valuable service to our ecosystem.

I agree, it would be stupid to. Make war
On them.

The best protection for small kids is a
Good sized outside dog.

But, I am not in favor to wiping them out and I can assure you they provide a valuable service to our ecosystem.

This is a very outdated idea that is difficult to dislodge.

Upheaval, not balance, is the norm. That we believe otherwise has proven problematic for the teaching of basic ecological literacy, according to a just-published paper by psychologist Corinne Zimmerman of Illinois State University and ecologist Kim Cuddington of Ohio University. Their study of students at two major Midwestern universities found the discredited "balance of nature" idea is widely held among both science majors and the general student population. What's more, it is extremely difficult to dislodge. "They're almost unable to reason logically about environmental problems because they keep bumping into this cultural concept," Cuddington said. "It's influencing their thought processes." While it is tempting to blame Walt Disney, given the balance-of-nature theme in The Lion King (where it is called the "circle of life"), the concept can be traced back to the beginnings of Western thought. Herodotus, the ancient Greek who is widely considered the first historian, "describes the relationship between predator and prey species," Cuddington said. "He calls it wonderful that they're exactly balanced — that the predators never eat too many of the prey."

The staying power of this idea became clear when she asked students in her introduction to ecology course, "Do you think a predator could ever drive a prey species to extinction?" "They uniformly answer no — even though it does happen all the time," she said.

Thus the declared extinction of what was once an enormous elk herd at Yellowstone, a few caribou herds in BC, etc, ALL DUE TO WOLF INTRODUCTION.

The left is killing off the herds with giant aggressive wolves brought down from Alberta. This is part and parcel of agenda 21. Hope this education attempt helps you to see through the haze.

"...they provide a valuable service to our ecosystem...

Coyotes, previously thought of as desert animals, now range all the way to New Hampshire and Maine.

The ecological niche previously occupied by wolves is being filled by coyotes.

Humans opened up that niche.