Not really an accurate statement. The state did not introduce them. So again how is you going into a forest make them the pest. There is a difference between them coming into your backyard in a city versus you going to them in a forest.
Deer hunting paradise! Does your state give farmers special permits to keep the deer population down out of season?
We get cheap land owner tags in season and that's it unless you want to harvest the meat from a road kill animal. We have gotten tags and hauled the carcasses out to a spot visible from the house to watch the eagles and coyotes feed on them.
I feel as if you misread most of my posts and just went right for the "YOURE THE PEST!" argument that everyone makes. They do come into our backyards. Daily. They take dogs, cats, you name it. Were I live I hunt directly behind my house, at MOST 600 yards into the woods. There are over 1000 acres of state gamelands directly behind my house. There are THOUSANDS of deer in the area. These yotes see an easy meal with house dogs, cats, chickens, whatever. They have plenty of room to stay away from us and vice versa. They don't stay away. Therefore they are a pest and are dealt with on my property and as well into a small fraction of the woodlands around my house. Also, let me apologize for my miscommuncation on introduction of the species. They trap and move them around here where they were a problem. They say they don't but I know for a fact they do lol. The game commission did not move coyotes to the state, but no one knows how they got here. They trap and relocate them from problem areas, to much more rural areas and thus creates the same problem over time for people who live further from the cities. I don't know if you deal with them were you live, but here, they are a problem. They are out of control just like the deer they supposedly help control lol. You can tell me I'm the problem all day long, but until the day you see one of your beloved pets get mauled on your back porch, you won't really see it from both sides.
thats pretty classic, I've seen that happen with a neighbors doberman, one yote teased it until the dog took off after it, and 2 more jumped it from the treeline across the road. They are one of the most intelligent animals I've ever seen in my life. Like I said, I respect them, I don't go out of my way to wound or poison them, but I will shoot one if its going to be a clean kill.
I don't believe the DNR anymore. Roughly five years ago the first mountain lion was killed in Iowa. The event was brushed off as a freak occurrence and had its moment of fame. He is the news article-
I'm with you...the scariest part about that is, here, they threw the idea around (for all the people who are going to tell me I'm insane and it didn't happen, this idea was BROUGHT UP, not implemented) of introducing a controlled mountain lion population here to control the coyotes and the deer since coyotes don't seem to be helping as much any longer (how do you control a wild animal population like that...?)
