Brooks Fahy at PREDATOR DEFENSE has shared an updated report on the futility of killing coyotes as a means to preventing predation on livestock............As has been shown by researchers around North America, the exact opposite can and often does happen--humans kill coyotes and the remaining coyotes kill more livestock and produce larger litters of pups.............. Dr. Robert Crabtree, predator ecologist at the YELLOWSTONE ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER provides a concise explanation of this phenomena in his updated research on the subject(attached)

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From: Brooks Fahy <brooks@predatordefense.org       

Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:47:43 -0700

ReplyTo: brooks@predatordefense.org

Subject: Coyote Control: Is It Effective or Necessary?

Coyote Control: Is It Effective or Necessary?

One of the country's foremost wildlife ecologists, Dr. Robert L. Crabtree, has conducted decades of extensive research on predator ecology and coyotes. His findings demonstrate that indiscriminate killing of adult coyotes, like that done by USDA Wildlife Services, actually increases the coyote population. For example, lethal control drives coyotes to target unnatural prey sources, such as sheep, in order to feed larger litters of pups. Dr. Crabtree wrote a scientific opinion letter on coyote control for Predator Defense.

Read research summary | Read Dr. Crabtree's letter

sheep predation by coyotes increases when humans pressure coyotes with bounties and sport hunting

Dr. Crabtree has been featured in the New York Times, Outside magazine, and National Wildlife Federation magazine, to name just a few. His work with coyotes has also been the focus of numerous wildlife documentaries and was chronicled by Todd Wilkinson in the book Track of the Coyote, published by Northword Press in 1995. About Dr. Crabtree

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