Good / Bad news for NY upcoming Coyote season

danurve

danurve

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New seasonal regulations for 2004/2005 are out.

Good news: You are no longer required to pelt seal a coyote. If you take a coyote you must report the take within 48 hours via the DECALS reporting system...
Bad news: Open Coyote season is now Oct. 1st. - Mar. 27th. One month shorter. Last 2-3 months of last years season I had a heck of a time getting out of my driveway much less time to hunt. Looking to improve that plan this time around.
I was looking at the WMU whitetail forcasts btw because alot of the state got hit hard from last winter. (2nd. chance draw will be cut short in alot of wmu's - NY hunters get your tags early)
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When I lived there in the mid eighties, I was suprised to see the idiot fish and game had a season on the yotes. Don't make sense.T.20
 
Ok, Tac, I'm going to take a stab at possibly why the F&G put a season on yotes there. I'm sure someone will come along soon with the real reason (if any) lol.

Since the bottom line to almost everything is $$$, I will assume there is a tag or as mentioned a decal that has to be "bought"(?) and/or hunting license purchased to hunt coyotes there ?!

"So far" in Communist Calif, we can hunt yotes year round with just a hunting license. If this sport ever gets too popular and F&G reallizes it, we too may have to pay for some sort of tag / extra fee. That is exactly what happened to our bobcat and pig hunting.

I guess Agencies are not going to miss a beat for too long on making money wherever and whenever they can. Irritating & Sad !
 
Actually there is no extra cost to hunt coyote. The money is in the 'super sportsman' fees, bow & muzzleloading privilage, Turkey, waterfoul. On a side note I don't bother hunting geese but I can't stand them either. there is too many of them and like crows all they do is make noise all day long.
 
It would take a tremendous amount of hunting pressure to hurt the overall coyote population so I highly doubt that coyote conservation is of any concern to the NY game and parks. Here in Nebraska we have a season on coons and we don’t need one by any stretch of the imagination. Nebraskans harvest over 150,000 a year. Other states such as WY that literally have a fraction of the coon population that Nebraska does has no season and just labels them as a predator. Most all of the time when seasons are put in place they do so outside of the birthing season and/or when the animals are in there physical prime. Hunters can get the most use out of animals in peak condition. There are lots of animals that probably do not need any protection at all yet they are granted it for reasons that usually revolve around ethical values.

I would guess that ethics are the driving force behind seasons put on coyotes. It is always in the best interests of wildlife programs to promote the ethical harvesting and maximum utilization of the animals that they manage. Maybe because coyote fur is worthless in an unprimed condition or the fact that they are rearing their young in the summertime is there reason behind the law. Sport hunting in and of its self has no real tangible effect on over all populations so I would think that biologically it would make no difference whether there was a season or not.

Maybe because they realize that a year around season makes no difference in population control they are just doing it to honor the denning season and to promote utilization of the fur? Maybe some one should call them up to get the “official” reason. It beats speculation. LOL

Good hunting.

Q,
 
Dan
I was looking into the season for the last few years on coyotes in NY and they are the same as this year. Last year you could only hunt coyotes until the end of March. So i guess its only good news for hunting yotes in NY.

NY Yote
 
Originally posted by NY Yote:
[qb]Gunner,

Actually i live 25 mins west of Greenville. I live right off Exit 23 from I-88. I would say we are pretty close.[/qb]
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Right off of 9W? Past the D.O.T DOME?
 
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