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Coyote Hunting - From 10 Yards to over 1,000 Yards
Ramblings and Such From Hunting Coyote
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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 3047174" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>highfinblue; population fluctuations are an interesting and complex topic. Here during the depression people left and went to find jobs in cities, masses of animals died during the dust bowl period and people ate what they needed to, to survive. People and animals suffered from breathing the dust in the air and their lives were shortened by it, as well as the lack of proper nutrition. Then after the dust bowl when we started getting moisture again there was a disease that killed thousands of elk, deer, sheep and antelope that was similar to chronic wasting disease that struck here. It wasn't till the 50's that there were enough deer to open a hunting season my grandmother got one of the few licenses as they were landowners. In the 30's there was a prairie dog control program as there wasn't enough grass to even feed livestock, deer or antelope. I didn't see any white-tailed deer here till the mid to late 60's. The elk population was down as well, killed by drought, hunting and disease. It was the sportsmen and game and fish department that brought the animal populations back here, now it's that they are a source of income for the state as well as the landowners and are treated close to the same as livestock. The weak and not good-looking animals are culled by a lot of landowners through their hunters, and trophy animals produced in the process. People learned that good management policies helped them as well as the land and animal populations, controlling some animals to maintain populations that the available food base could handle, be it grass or a prey base. As with all other things it's a learning process for everyone involved, rancher, control worker or sportspeople, we all help each other in one way or another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 3047174, member: 91783"] highfinblue; population fluctuations are an interesting and complex topic. Here during the depression people left and went to find jobs in cities, masses of animals died during the dust bowl period and people ate what they needed to, to survive. People and animals suffered from breathing the dust in the air and their lives were shortened by it, as well as the lack of proper nutrition. Then after the dust bowl when we started getting moisture again there was a disease that killed thousands of elk, deer, sheep and antelope that was similar to chronic wasting disease that struck here. It wasn't till the 50's that there were enough deer to open a hunting season my grandmother got one of the few licenses as they were landowners. In the 30's there was a prairie dog control program as there wasn't enough grass to even feed livestock, deer or antelope. I didn't see any white-tailed deer here till the mid to late 60's. The elk population was down as well, killed by drought, hunting and disease. It was the sportsmen and game and fish department that brought the animal populations back here, now it's that they are a source of income for the state as well as the landowners and are treated close to the same as livestock. The weak and not good-looking animals are culled by a lot of landowners through their hunters, and trophy animals produced in the process. People learned that good management policies helped them as well as the land and animal populations, controlling some animals to maintain populations that the available food base could handle, be it grass or a prey base. As with all other things it's a learning process for everyone involved, rancher, control worker or sportspeople, we all help each other in one way or another. [/QUOTE]
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