Unlike most invasive species, coyotes are native to North America

Unlike most invasive species, coyotes are native to North America, with a natural habitat that extends from Alaska to Central America over terrain ranging from mountains to plains to — these days — cities (in one notable case, a coyote even staked out a Chicago .Restaurant.

But the wily canines are an expensive nuisance: the major predators of cows, sheep and other livestock, they also prey on household pets in many suburban areas. A 2004 survey by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (summarized in this livestock report) found that coyotes were responsible for killing an estimated 135,600 sheep and lambs worth $10.7 million. The extensive cost to agriculture has led government officials to spend millions every year poisoning, trapping and shooting an estimated 90,000 coyotes.

Nocked up would kindly like to tell the MSPCA and all the other money begging organizations its the outdoors folks who pay for conservation and if we simply didn’t buy a hunting or fishing lic for one year that would hurt and further more coyotes are invasive in Massachusetts attacking our kids are pets are livestalk coyote harvests keep populations in check .

In Massachusetts if you have a valid hunting lic you can legally harvest coyote from Oct. 19 – Mar. 7, 2020 and you can harvest 100 if you cant get them hint hint

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