European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Villainous coyotes cause a howl among Farmers Bubo Dvorchak associated press he first sheep was killed on Earl Cole s Arm Al Bravo Alast March Hen another and another and Nolner. Wilh a 10 More los Al Insl 80 lambs and ewes Worth $10,000 were slam on his Arm and an adjoining one predatory Teeth lore inc shceps1 throats or pierced their skulls and their soil inner organs were Ealon. All clues paint la coyotes an old Wesl predator Whoso numbers Are growing m she Easl. A s circumstantial evidence nobody s actually seen a Coyote kill the sheep Bui in pretty much has so be snyscoto.67, who lends 100 head of sheep on his 200-Acrc Greene county farm to convince sceptics Cole paid a trapper $50 to prove the coyotes Evite cart five females been trapped or shot near the scene of the crimes railing pasture co Miles sooth of Pittsburgh As opposed to the High Grassy Plains o Wyoming or Montana. That s Good enough Lor Richard Belding land management Olfs cer for the Pennsylvania game commission who Calls the evidence overwhelming and conclusive " before 1980, Only six cases o coyotes Hilling shop had Boon vended in Pennsylvania the new run ins Wilh Farmers arc Prool the Coy Cluj preceded by is mystique and villainous reputation has brought its tone yips and howls to new Ler Tilory. A Cousin of the Wolf and the dog. The Coyote looks like a Small German Shepherd with a of like head pointed nose and hush Tail that resembles a bottle thu sri. The Eastern Coyote has some Woit and dog genes and the biggest ones weigh 55 pounds its a Tain dwelling pm weighs about 30 pounds coyotes Are a tinning Hunters being no resemblance to Ine hapless cartoon character Wile e Coyote thus re comical schemes always Bac Mirc As he vainly chases a Toad Tunner real coyotes least on mice robots Der. Carrion Grasshoppers fruits and Bornes they also i lambs calves goals Chook ens. Geese. Pros. Barnyard cars Llamas and other Domestic Liv Wislock coyotes have pillar pc watermelons on California farms Iri Oclo Bor. Coyotes filled 48 flamingos in the los Angeles zoo Aller keepers mistakenly Icett the Birds pen open coyotes vanished from Pennsylvania 10,000 years ago Runng the tee age they began returning in the Laic 1890s when the i Astico of Clear culling the stale s Lores exterminated the Wolf by Dusl laying its habitat coyotes thrive in open country they re fitting an ecological Niche equated when we eliminated the Well says or John Geotge a senior biologist at Penn stale univ easily to Lvi Coyote is very Esou Roluf people have kind to Poison them and Hap them it s Tough to sgt and of every last one " there Are coyotes in every Eastern state says Helen Mcginnis who did her master s study on Coyote populations Al Penn slate the populations Ace Eart Cole blames coyotes lot killing is least 80 Timbs and wet woth 110,000 on hit farm within a year. Building up and wih continue to build up i have a lol of admiration 1or them. They re intelligent. They re adaptable " biologists believe coyotes migrated irom the great Plains in a giant arc North and Easl around the great lakes Aboul 90 Yoars quo. The route look them into Onlan. Then South to new England new York Pennsylvania and Appalachia others pushed cast trom the Plains while some were imported to be hunted by wolfhounds and sportsmen Mcginnis says each year an esfimaled1 million sheep or 10 percent of the National Slock Are killed by predators and coyotes account for 90 percent of that. According to the us a. The loss is valued at $70 million. Coyote overtook to Man in when to a Mutton hts to Man becoming More no Matous. I sour number one Provo Stablo loss this is the single largest Cost of production thai we in Mac is says Dan Murphy pro dont of the Washington based National Wool growers association the number of sheep ranchers has dwindled irom 225,000 in Ine 1960s to 125.000. Says i Clair Ternell. Lormey director of sheep Seaich lot the us a nationally the sheep population has fallen irom 55 million during world War h to 10 Mill on says Ternell. Who Blamco coyotes for much of the drop to promote the use of Mutton Idaho sheep Farmers coined this bumper sucker. Eat american Lamb. 5 million coyotes can t 80 others Turc More Blunt i Only know one Good Coyote and that s a dead Oyolo says Rick Moore of Harrison county Ohio whore Farmer s pay a Bounty of �25 Don a Lerson president of Sneep growers association in Greene con Check. Cobol is Are opportunistic they re not evil.1 says Susan Hagood of defenders of Vii Liilo a Washington based group with members nationwide she says coyotes can be discouraged by guaro1 dogs cd Cedric fences placing ewes in Sheds when they Lamb and selective Snow log or mapping of sheep killers it would to n waste of time Florl and Money to try to eliminate them the govern mini a Pant millions a dollars and tailed to eradicate he Coyote we Youw hate to see Eastern staler adopting Western philosophies and making Hie Sarno is Hagood says. Some sales have studied the Impact of coyotes on Deer populations in Mamo. Selective trapping Cairn names troublesome coyotes. Bul the animals Are nol damaging the does Herd As far As 1 know the Coyoc has nol had any serious repercussions on native wildlife m docs not appear to he a disaster. If in is causing people problems people have themselves to blame says Ronald Novak of the u s department of Interior in Pennsylvania. The o coyotes can be hunted or trapped year round they number an Esh Malad 2.000 to 3.000. Says Arnold Haydon. A Oyolo i part with to Pennsylvania game commission they re probably everywhere but downtown Philadelphia and saturday april a 19bb the stars and stripes Pago 17
