Tagged: coyote management

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5:02 pm
Fri August 10, 2012

Researchers study contraception as a potential coyote management tool

Credit Willow Belden
Marjie MacGregor weighs one of the test coyotes

Talk to almost anyone who raises sheep in Wyoming, and they’ll tell you they’ve had problems with coyotes.  Traditionally, the response has been to kill the coyotes, often by aerial gunning. But researchers at the University of Wyoming are trying to come up with an alternative management tool, which they hope will work better in the long-term and be more  humane. Wyoming Public Radio’s Willow Belden reports.

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