01-24-2017, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by HunterDave
Keg, ever since you posted this I've been searching for an article on the internet that I read a couple of years ago. It explained in detail of how coyotes migrated in Alberta. According to the story, there never were any coyotes in northern portions of Alberta because it was all wolf territory. Amazingly, at least to me, not even 100 years ago there were very few coyotes even as far south as the Edmonton area where I am. All of the coyotes that we have now migrated from the plains in southern Alberta and worked their way north as more and more land was developed and the wolves pushed out. This may explain why you have fewer coyotes where you are as opposed to more southern regions.
I'm going to keep trying to find the article/info because it's pretty darned interesting.
PS. IMO it's just a matter of time before raccoons make the same migration and establish themselves farther and farther north.
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http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/wildlife...ocs/coyote.pdf
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