By Matt Reese
When coyote predation becomes a problem for a livestock operation, it can be a major issue that requires extensive measures to address. For this reason, an Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife proposal to designated coyotes as furbearers generated concerns from Ohio?s agriculture and hunters and trappers.
?There are a fair amount of hunters that don’t agree with it,? said Mike Rex, who sits on the Ohio Wildlife Council. ?They see coyotes as vermin and not a furbearing animal like a fox, and they don’t think there should be any additional regulation.??
With the furbearer designation, coyote trapping by any person (including landowners) would be limited to the existing trapping season for fox, raccoon, skunk, opossum, and weasel which is Nov. 10 to Jan. 31. The current “landowner exemption?? for fur taker permits and legal year-round nuisance trapping would remain in place.
Concerns about the proposed changes, though, led to a Feb.? Continue reading
