Coyote control

[Droptine]

Yall might have seen this but I thought it was funny !!!

Found this on another site and thought yall would get a kick outts this...



A few years ago a group of tree-huggers was presenting an alternative to the ranchers for controlling the coyote population.

It seemed that, after years of the ranchers using the tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the tree-huggers had a "more humane" solution. What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, then castrate the males, then let them loose again, and then the population would be controlled. I, kid you not, this was ACTUALLY proposed to the Wyoming Wool and Sheep Grower's Association. Well, all the ranchers thought about this amazing idea. Finally, an old boy in the back stood up, kicked his hat back and said: "Son, I don't think you understand the problem. These coyotes ain't f*ckin' our sheep, they're eating them!!"

[Bobcat]

.....or "Predator Friendly" beef and lamb? This bunch is going around certifying ranches and farms "Predator Friendly". We need to just get along and kill any coyotes. All you need to do is get a llama, a donkey, and a dog......the POOF.....all your predator problems are solved. Nothing to it......Ted Turner sponsered a program on the Discover Channel about this 4 years ago. ;D

Bob

NOTE: This is a article from the January/February 1999 issue of the Fish and Wildlife News

Predator-friendly beef? What sounds like a contradiction in terms is, in fact, a new label that will appear on beef products from ranches whose proprietors believe in sharing their land with all indigenous wildlife, including coyotes, mountain lions and wolves.

Last October Southwest Regional Director Nancy Kaufman joined Craig Miller of Defenders of Wildlife as the non-profit organization introduced predator-friendly beef. About 100 people, including Albuquerque Mayor Jim Baca, attended the event at the Albuquerque Biological Park, anxiously awaiting a free burger made from Heritage Ranch beef, a product of Jim Winder’s wolf-country New Mexico ranch. Between bites they read about the evolution of predator-friendly beef and learned that “...‘cattle ranching’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ need not be mutually exclusive any longer.”

Kaufman expressed the Service’s support for predator-friendly beef. “Our bottom line is to work with all interested and affected parties to improve the status of listed species and the health of natural resources in the Southwest,” she said. “Also, we are very concerned with maintaining economic viability for the lifestyles and cultures that have come to define the spirit of the West.”

She later sampled a burger, pronouncing it “delicious.”

Cattle ranchers such as Jim Winder of Heritage Ranch represent a new generation of ranchers in the Southwest who welcome the reintroduction of predators like the Mexican wolf because of the species’ intrinsic importance to the ecosystem.

For the better part of this century, a federally supported predator-control program used poisons, guns and traps to eliminate species that threatened livestock. In 1914, the capture or kill of a Mexican wolf paid bounties of as much as $10, and by the late 1970s, Mexican wolves no longer existed in the United States.

A year ago, the Service began reintroducing Mexican wolves to part of their historic range in the Apache National Forest in eastern Arizona.

Predator-friendly beef may cost more but, as Miller said, it will be worth it. He urged that the cost of restoring the environment be shared with a public who really cares for the environment, who will focus their spending on environmentally sound products, and thus enable this kind of ranching to be economically feasible.

[fishman]

That ole boy's right on track Droptine, the only predator friendly beef I've ever seen here in Neb has been in the form of those yote deposits in the middle of the road and them bonepoles in the pasture!!! give it long enough and they'll be crying when they realize their Fluffy and Toto did'nt have a vote on this here pred friendly thing! ;D ;D

[BozoWise]

Sounds like another way to make money on your cattle. I think I'll try that next time I go to the sale barn.

This is predator friendly beef, I guarantee this cow has not killed one natural predator. Now myself on the other hand might not be to predator friendly.

[fishman]

Holy Cow!!! I can see it now leaves on their hides and branches growing out their ear holes!! Talk about a side salad. You better get a premium for that beef BozoWise! ;D ;D ;D Maybe them nerds have given us a clue to the origins of mad cow disease, who to say it did'nt rub off of them "pred FRIENDLY" FELLOWS!!!Hey I better look in to some Gov't reasearch funds huh!!!!