Posted: 1/15/2011 7:08:35 PM EDT
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The Sierra Club and the U.S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true method of shooting or trapping the predators, the Sierra Club had a "more humane" solution to this issue. What they were proposing was for the animals to be captured alive. The males would then be castrated and let loose again. This was actually proposed by the Sierra Club and by the U.S. Forest Service, for their obvious reasons. There was dead silence as all of the ranchers sat and thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.... Finally, an old fellow in the very back of the conference room stood up, hitched up his jeans, tipped his hat back, took the pick out of his mouth and said; "Son, I don't think you really understand our problem here... these coyotes ain't fuckin' our sheep... they're eatin' 'em!!" The meeting never really got back to order. |
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The Sierra Club and the U.S. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true method of shooting or trapping the predators, the Sierra Club had a "more humane" solution to this issue. What they were proposing was for the animals to be captured alive. The males would then be castrated and let loose again. This was actually proposed by the Sierra Club and by the U.S. Forest Service, for their obvious reasons. There was dead silence as all of the ranchers sat and thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.... Finally, an old fellow in the very back of the conference room stood up, hitched up his jeans, tipped his hat back, took the pick out of his mouth and said; "Son, I don't think you really understand our problem here... these coyotes ain't fuckin' our sheep... they're eatin' 'em!!" The meeting never really got back to order. Hahahah. 
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I met a guy last week whose full time job was to hunt coyotes for the Forest Service. In my county we do too. He gets paid like $25 an hour to do it. He has his son drive him around and he drinks beer and shoots yotes. This has now become my career goal... |
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I met a guy last week whose full time job was to hunt coyotes for the Forest Service. In my county we do too. He gets paid like $25 an hour to do it. He has his son drive him around and he drinks beer and shoots yotes. This has now become my career goal... Yeah I spent pry 150 hours out looking for them this summer with a buddy. I put lots of miles on my pickup. I was always told we were supposed to see them every where. We saw 3 the entire summer. I then met this guy just on the happen chance and saw he had a gun, in his pickup. We got the talking and I asked him about yotes, he told me "I'm working on killing them all." with a smile. I then found out all that. Needless to say if I got paid $25 per hour for the 150 hours I spent I'd have some nice cash. Technically the job is a trapper but generally that means a paid hunter. |
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lol@ Sierra club...
little back story to a meeting they held here not too long ago. the meeting was on a couple of the proposed new coal mines that are starting up in the area. the meeting was held at the World Shooting Complex in Sparta Il. the Sierra club went on and on about the evil coal companies how they destroy the land and the environmet, etc..etc...evil coal mines.....etc...that they are no good and that once the mine is done with the land it can never be the same or better again.. what they didnt realize was that their meeting place was once a large strip mine and that the WSC is on reclaimed land....and is a state park.... 
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lol@ Sierra club... little back story to a meeting they held here not too long ago. the meeting was on a couple of the proposed new coal mines that are starting up in the area. the meeting was held at the World Shooting Complex in Sparta Il. the Sierra club went on and on about the evil coal companies how they destroy the land and the environmet, etc..etc...evil coal mines.....etc...that they are no good and that once the mine is done with the land it can never be the same or better again.. what they didnt realize was that their meeting place was once a large strip mine and that the WSC is on reclaimed land....and is a state park.... I would be more concerned about the impact of the job on the miners than the land. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I met a guy last week whose full time job was to hunt coyotes for the Forest Service. here in Texas? No, I was shooting a USPSA match in Roswell, NM. He was heading up to Raton the next week to deal with a problem.  He confirmed that it's pretty much the best job in the world. lol |