Outdoors - Coyote hunting fills the off-season for hunters

www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100522/COLUMNIST/100529871/1005

The hunter in the article above(click on article) resides in the Wilmington, Delaware area of the USA............along with Maryland, the last unfilled Eastern Coyote niche discovered by our adaptable "Wily" about 6 years ago. A shame that what appears to be a veteran human hunter opines that the reason he hunts coyotes is because they kill deer fawns. While true enough that Coyotes will opportunisticaly kill fawns, this culling tends to be compensatory rather than additive, meaning that the coyotes do not dampen the white tail population significantly and that the young deer they kill would likely not make it pass fawn stage anyway. There should be a closed season Jan-June during mating and pup rearing and a bag limit June through December that is biologically sound and thought out utilizing best science and not  a"kill baby kill" knee-jerk response to Delaware's "top dog".