Predator Control Program in UT

[bearpaw]

Too bad Washington doesn't get on board with controling predators!

From one of the News pages on the Utah DWR Website:
http://wildlife.utah.gov/dwr/news/42-utah-wildlife-news/486-deer-hunt-will-happen-in-five-regions.html

Coyote control
As you're completing your application, consider donating some money to help control coyotes in Utah. Coyotes are the animal that preys the most on mule deer fawns.

You can donate by clicking the "Donate for coyote control" box that will appear as you're completing your application. Just include with your application fee the amount you'd like to donate.

For more information, call the Utah Wildlife Administrative Services office at 1-800-221-0659, the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at 801-538-4700.

[rasbo]

that would be great but for me to give this state money, I would have to feel real confident it was being put to use in that area..letting us trap coyotes with leg holds would really inspire me...to donate

[bearpaw]

that would be great but for me to give this state money, I would have to feel reel confident it was being put to use in that area..letting us trap coyotes with leg holds would really inspire me...to donate

Totally agree on the trapping, and I'm still bent out of shape for them taking away dog hunting of yotes too.....

[predatorpro]

i donate money to nosler when i buy a box of 250 40gr ballistic tips, atleast my bullets will do more than the state

[bearpaw]

Nevada has also increasing their predator control to try and help their mule deer herds.
These links also have info about the impacts of coyotes on mule deer fawns in Nevada:

http://ndow.org/about/pubs/pdf/reports/predator.pdf

http://www.ndow.org/wild/conservation/predator/index.shtm

[Ironhead]

When will the politicians in Wa. let the people in the know manage the wildlife? I fear it will never happen here. I donated 20.00 to Utah and will donate another 20.00 to Nevada.

[Bigshooter]

Someone on MM posted what the state of Utah spends on coyotes and how many they kill.  And it was like $75 a coyote.  It didn't sound like a very good program.  I know there were people wanting to put a bounty out on coyotes in Utah but there board rejected it.

[bearpaw]

I think it's about $20 per coyote, a couple of my guides collected some money last year. Here's a link to a forum which guys posted various bounties on: http://www.predatormastersforums.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1736936&page=all

[Special T]

It think it would have been cool just to go out with some of the guys that got yotes with dogs... This state is making all the cool fringe hunting illegal in this state! 

[bearpaw]

I think coyotes in Washington are having a significant impact on our deer herds. Check out the quote from this story in Nevada.

http://elkodaily.com/news/local/article_4b8af4ba-435f-11e0-ad07-001cc4c03286.html

Laughlin sees several areas in northern Nevada where high concentrations of coyotes are impacting local mule deer herds. One is Hunt Area 14. Laughlin said Wildlife Services flew around the Diamond Mountains and shot 98 coyotes in a three-day period. The adults targeted were dominant breeding pairs. Juveniles were not shot.

Laughlin said the helicopter was flying at 8,000- 9,000-foot elevation on the range and did not venture to the valley floor for coyotes.

“Everywhere there were deer there would be eight to 12 coyotes on top of them,” Laughlin said. Where no coyotes were found, Laughlin said no deer were seen.

[daydreamn]

Utah has government trappers hired full time to assist with predator control.  They are pretty effective at doing their job too.  My wife has a relative that is a government trapper and I am amazed at the number of coyotes he kills each year.  Helicoptor is their most effective tool.  He says the usually kill between 50 and 100 coyotes per concentrated area over two to three days when theyre flying, and they fly often.

[Special T]

I'm kinda surprised that they didn't shoot all the coyotes in the story.. Why let the juveniles survive? I'd say gun'em all down.. 

[CAMPMEAT]

I don't donate to anybody. Nobody donates to me.