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Grizzly bears, black bears, wolves, coyotes, cougars/ mountain lions,bobcats, wolverines, lynx, foxes, fishers and martens are the suite of carnivores that originally inhabited North America after the Pleistocene extinctions. This site invites research, commentary, point/counterpoint on that suite of native animals (predator and prey) that inhabited The Americas circa 1500-at the initial point of European exploration and subsequent colonization. Landscape ecology, journal accounts of explorers and frontiersmen, genetic evaluations of museum animals, peer reviewed 20th and 21st century research on various aspects of our "Wild America" as well as subjective commentary from expert and layman alike. All of the above being revealed and discussed with the underlying goal of one day seeing our Continent rewilded.....Where big enough swaths of open space exist with connective corridors to other large forest, meadow, mountain, valley, prairie, desert and chaparral wildlands.....Thereby enabling all of our historic fauna, including man, to live in a sustainable and healthy environment. - Blogger Rick

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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Thankfully it appears that Texas Govenor Rick Perry is fading from Republican Presidential contention..............The "Good Old Boy" who has bragged about shooting a coyote while out walking his dog(unleashed dog of course in coyote country is unforgiveable) would likely enact a Nationwide bounty on Coyotes if given the chance..........You can be sure that Kerr County Texas is rooting for the Govenor to get "a 2nd wind" and make a comeback as they reinstitute a $20 bounty on coyotes

WANTED: More dead than alive--coyote bounty up in Kerrville


KERRVILLE -- Marvin Neunhoffer rattles a feed bag and the sheep come running, if you can call it "running." The sheep's gait isn't the most graceful in the animal kingdom.Neunhoffer chuckles as the last straggler makes it to the food. The animals know him by sight, and Neunhoffer keeps an eye on them like his great-great grandfather did on this same ranchland in the 1880s.

Since then, coyote populations have increased in the area, and they've taken a bite out of Neunhoffer's business."We lost probably 50 sheep and goats and probably eight or 10 calves in a three-month period," the rancher said. So Neunhoffer approached Kerr County commissioners last year, to ask that coyotes be put back on the "most wanted" list.

"The bounty was established in 1951 at $15. And I just asked them not to raise it, but just adjust it for inflation," Neunhoffer added.And adjust it they did. County commissioners voted Monday to raise the bounty from $15 to $20.

Government trappers take care of rounding up coyotes in many sections of Kerr County. But for those ranch and farmlands not visited by the trappers, hunters can bring in the ears of a coyote along with an affidavit stating where it was killed, and collect the reward. So far, the county's paid out less than a hundred dollars.

"We're talking about, as of this year, only five or six cases of that (bounties collected)," said Kerr County Commissioner Guy Overby.Overby said the bounty is paid out and processed through the county's animal control division.

Back on the ranch, Neunhoffer spotted a pair of coyotes with a cub recently circling his livestock. For now, his donkey plays watchdog over the flock until a bounty can be claimed on the predators.
"Donkeys inherently hate anything canine. And they're not the full answer to keeping coyotes out of your livestock, but they are part of the tools that we use," said Neunhoffer. "It's an economic issue. Especially with the drought, we spent a lot of money in feed and caring for these animals to get them to that point, and a coyote comes and kills that in one night--that's money out of your wallet," he added.

Sixty years ago, county commissioners placed other animals on the bounty list: including foxes ($1.00), wildcats ($2.50) and raccoons ($0.50).Kerr County Judge Pat Tinley said the bounty on these other varmints has expired.

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