There have been a lot more problems with coyotes in New Jersey, but the governor’s office and the DEP have kept a tight lid on the problems, just as it has been doing with bear and other wildlife problems...
If Gov. Jon S. Corzine and DEP Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson think the coyote problem, like the bear problem, is going to go away because they tell people how to deal with their garbage, they are mistaken. The only answer to the coyote and bear problems is through controlled hunting.
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The governor and DEP commissioner are putting public safely at risk with their anti-hunting policies. By not using hunting as a tool to manage the state’s wildlife populations, they are allowing the state’s wildlife to get out of control. Had those attacks been by a bear — and sooner or later it will happen — both of those children could be dead.
No need for controls on the hunting of the Coyotes. They should be poisoned, shot, trapped as found.