no consequences for the coyote killers?

there might be less coyotes. Wolves good.

Wolves aren't classified as endangered.

they were de-listed during his reign of terror at interior.

one of my DINO senators!! Those riders in the budget CR, a must pass Bill! None of it science based in the least... same as the predator management plans the states allegedly operate on.

hunters...none of it is science...none.

and it is all about political power. The natural world, like all things alive, has been deemed the enemy and so we must have a war to squelch it from being an inconvenience to "progress" for the industrialists!

simply opens up territory - and food opportunities - for other coyotes.

Then, with new coyotes and more food, they just kick their reproduction into high gear.

2 years later... more coyotes than you started with.

Coyotes don't take much big game... fawns, maybe. Wolves... Not enough of them around to change much.

This contest is just a testosterone-fest... with a side order of gun-nut.

And the have over populated and can't find enough food which led to malnutrition and massive death from exposure because of a mange epidemic. The numbers increased gradually as hides devalued and less people hunted them. What has helped in my state, was the introduction of wild turkeys (entirely funded by hunting license sales) which has since increased bobcat populations, coyote health has improved, mountain lions are documented and huge numbers of turkeys throughout the state. There are some sport hunters, but most are killed by land owners. I have killed several that have come to my farmstead. ..they eat cats and killed all of my chickens one year.

URL for the organization that put this fiasco on...

http://www.idahoforwildlife.com/

One really bad precedent this thing set was that it brought a lot of business to a small tourism based community which will make them more welcoming to such events in the future. Then again, there are some serious predator haters in that community too.