[rcmc]

I believe for one thing that there are more coyotes per sq. kilometre in the northern area than then the southern areas mainly because we don't have the habitat that the central and northern areas do. When fur prices are high the pressure on coyotes becomes intense here, the coyotes you normally rely on for recruitment to fill the void are already hanging in someone's fur shed. You wouldn't believe how many people (colonies) are after coyotes these days here from truck hunters to callers to trappers, and a certain point the population doesn't maintain itself. I have hunted and trapped for nearly fifty years here in the south, we can impact the population down here. In late seventies there was a fur price boom, the county I live in actually closed the coyote season for hunting except with written permission because of low coyotes numbers.