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Post by doyleflory on Feb 20, 2008 20:26:42 GMT -5
I wish it was so but government never gets smaller. They just tax more,fines fee,s and forfeitures.
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Post by eric on Feb 20, 2008 20:46:31 GMT -5
Something will have to happen in a couple of years, bounty, full legalization of live market, hire govt. trappers dedicated to yote population reduction, etc. Getting in bed with the anti's may cost the DNR/taxpayer big money in the near future if they don't legalize. If the INDNR would have just done their jobs to begin with "manage wildlife", they would have done their homework and found how much money some states are forking out just to try to control the yote population. We all know the DNR monitors this site, I hope if they learn anything from this forum it is this; you are burning bridges and making enemies of the only FREE option for coyote population control available to you...the IN trapper. Sure you are still going to have your hobby trappers out there trapping 4 or 5 yotes a year but those who are being put out of business are the ones taking 50-100+ a year and it is more than just a hand full of trappers. Live marketers by far take the MAJORITY of the yotes in this state. Total pelt sales is a joke when compared to live market sales. Then again if the DNR really cared about managing wildlife, they would already know this and would be fighting to make it as easy as possible for trappers to market their animals dead or alive.
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Post by rivertrapper316 on Feb 21, 2008 5:01:41 GMT -5
They don't care now but they will in the near future .
It will cost them big time in the end , I for one will see to that.
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Post by foxcatcher1 on Feb 21, 2008 5:13:25 GMT -5
You guys need to pay attention to the news. They voted on a coyote bounty for the state of Indiana a few years ago....... They aproved it but then said it was up to the county to pay it and the money must come out of the animal warden funds. We all know there are no animal warden funds left after the pay for the up keep of those dam mutts.
I tried getting our county to do it since I was a deputy. They said no dice.
Don
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Post by eric on Feb 21, 2008 19:09:42 GMT -5
Do you think the DNR really realizes the impact this will have on the coyote population and the damage they have done in terms of trapper/DNR relationship? I think they simply don't care even if they do know.
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Post by yoteskinner on Feb 21, 2008 20:31:54 GMT -5
Already seeing an increase in coyotes here due to no trapping. 9 coyotes in a group in the middle of the day.
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Post by Delmar Morgan (mask bandit) on Feb 22, 2008 12:15:20 GMT -5
I was told buy a feed store owner that a customer had a horse killed by coyotes not to long ago,said it was a pack of about 20.I heard a pack last night when I came home from work.
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