Bounty The Quicker Picker Upper Could it Work on the Song Dog?
March 7, 2007
The area around Raleigh is growing and most of the new arrivals are from outside the state. One of these new arrivals is the Coyote and they have made themselves at home in all 100 counties in North Carolina. For the most part the average North Carolinian is unaware that the yote population is growing and expanding unless they have a run in with one like they did in Greensboro not to long ago or like my friend who had to chase some off from stealing his deer. Many believe that fox pens, fenced in areas to run fox dogs, are partially to blame because often times they use coyotes to train the dogs. The belief is that the yotes are a bit craftier then the fox and can escape.
Farmers on the other hand are very aware of the impact of the coyote as it preys on many of the animals they raise.
After hearing numerous complaints about coyotes attacking livestock, the Johnston County Farm Bureau recently proposed giving the county $5,000 to set up a bounty program — rewards for hunters who kill coyotes.
“Anything to help keep the numbers down,” said Tom Vinson, a Clayton area cattle farmer and Farm Bureau member.
Mark Wellons, president of the Johnston County Farm Bureau, said the details had not been worked out. “We had some farmers that were concerned about the coyotes … interested in seeing if we could control them before they got to be too big of a problem,” he said.
Whether a bounty program would work is still being debated.
I’m not sure how well the bounty program will work especially when there is 99 other counties not doing it. I suspect some dead yotes from those counties will make it to Johnston County for the bounty. A better idea would be to invest in some classes to teach the hunters of Johnston County how to hunt and trap theses critters to keep them in check.
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