First wolf shows up in Iowa in nearly 100 years. Guess what happened?

[Lemon Drop]

She was shot and killed.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...-shot-dead

[Acer]

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then and have known ever since that there was something new to me in those eyes, something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

~Aldo Leopold

[Speedy]

Iowa doesn't have much for wolf habitat. I will guess that it came from Wisconsin because no self-respecting wolf would leave Minnesota for Iowa. Also, Wisconsin is more heavily wooded leading to Iowa. This wolf made it pretty far into the state.

[vision63]

Why would a hunter just shoot a Coyote? What it do to him?

[DeusxMac]

vision63 wrote:
Why would a hunter just shoot a Coyote? What it do to him?

I think you're ascribing too high a standard to the motivations of the average "hunter."

"Yes there is a state that has a bounty on Yotes, Its Here In Iowa. Allamakee county has a $5-6 dollar bounty and clayton has a $4.00 Bounty. Once you taken the yote, run it down to the court house and they will punch the ear and give you the$$$."

"I've shot them during deer season just because I don't like them (yes, I'm an as#hole), but have never actually skinned one. I think I'm gonna start this year though, cause I sure do like money and shootin things."

"Last winter yotes were going for about 5-$15.00 in Marshall County. I gave most of mine away to other hunters later in the winter. Let a couple lay were they fell."


Dated, but not outdated:
http://www.iowasportsman.com/forum/viewt...opic=70610

[vision63]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=vision63]
Why would a hunter just shoot a Coyote? What it do to him?

I think you're ascribing too high a standard to the motivations of the average "hunter."

"Yes there is a state that has a bounty on Yotes, Its Here In Iowa. Allamakee county has a $5-6 dollar bounty and clayton has a $4.00 Bounty. Once you taken the yote, run it down to the court house and they will punch the ear and give you the$$$."

"I've shot them during deer season just because I don't like them (yes, I'm an as#hole), but have never actually skinned one. I think I'm gonna start this year though, cause I sure do like money and shootin things."

"Last winter yotes were going for about 5-$15.00 in Marshall County. I gave most of mine away to other hunters later in the winter. Let a couple lay were they fell."


Dated, but not outdated:
http://www.iowasportsman.com/forum/viewt...opic=70610
The Coyote's seem smarter than these guys. I'd pay them to stop saying "yotes."

I read through that page and most of the guys are intelligent. They just live a strange existence that I'm not all that familiar with.

[Acer]

Coyotes are...wiley. They are learning to live happily in the suburbs here in PA. Short of a mass poisoning campaign, they re not in any immediate danger of eradication even with a bounty. There's not much money in the pelts, and there just aren't that many people interested in hunting them.

[$tevie]

I think it's a truly sad story, but it was an honest mistake as evidenced by the fact that the hunter took the body to authorities on his own volition once he realized that he may have shot a wolf.

[RgrF]

In the foothills of the northeast San Fernando Valley we live in harmony with coyotes, we just don't let household cats or tiny dogs roam free.

[OWC Jamie]

Living in fear of leaving cats, dogs, livestock, livelyhood, and children outside sounds like a real wonderful harmonious existance.

I bet you pay up the ying yang for animal control officers to keep all those fears at bay and knowledge of their "work" kept neatly swept under the carpet so you can believe in that "harmony".