While coyotes are still classified as varmints, as they all should be.
We had a wolf season here in Michigan this year. Two were taken on opening day.
Then the Federal Government should be required to make payments to ranchers for any livestock taken by wolves.
Ranchers have requested the removal of livestock killing packs but with the support of the animal rights movement USFWS have deigned to remove only one female despite the fact that every pack meets the rule definition of problem wolf, under the Federal Rule currently guiding the program.
Last year, rancher Corwin Hulsey lost over sixteen thousand dollars to wolves and was compensated a tenth of that amount by the federally managed, compensation interdiction program. Ranchers are going out of business in the Mexican wolf reintroduction area at an alarming rate loosing livestock, losing income, losing sleep while their stock suffers horrific injuries and even more horrible death to wolf attack.
The communities lose as well, jobs, opportunities, and tax base to grow the wolf program. On December 2 a small rancher located in Eastern Catron county was forced to put down his best saddle horse due to injuries sustained by a wolf attack.
A School bus stop in New Mexico is a cage to keep wolves from eating the kids. Shows you who is in charge too.
I think that they should stock Central Park in New York City with them