Wyoming dog bounty? or state trapper tally

ghilliedogger

ghilliedogger

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I was hunting dogs in wyoming and found a couple of dead ones that had been dumped on the side of the road. I noticed that their ears and tails were cut off. I was wondering if there was a bounty on them or if that is how the state trappers kept track of how many they killed?
 
I lived in Platte County and we would get a $25.00 bounty on the coyotes. We would take them to one of the board guys and they would snip the tips of the ears off and give you a voucher that you could turn in at the monthly bounty meeting.
 
I'm not aware of any bounties on coyotes but there could be a local livestock association paying one somewhere. What part of the state were you in? I don't know what the state trappers use to keep track of their numbers. The state legislature gave an additional 6 million dollars for the predator guys to use last year and this year. The helicopter pilot that flies for them out of Worland told me they were out almost every day last winter. They killed 611 in Washakie County last winter and I heard they were around 150 this fall so far. The Casper Trib had an article reporting that statewide they had killed about 3000 coyotes more in 2007 than 2006 with the additional funds. If they used half of the 6 million, it calculates out to almost $1000 per coyote.
 
Let the hunters and trappers take the coyotes. It brings money into the state instead of wasting our tax dollors. 6 million dollors will help alot of needy famlies.
 
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No bounty that I know of in central Wyoming. Who knows, maybe someone is freezing the ears for later on down the road.

As far as letting the hunters and trappers control the predators, I don't think that would work. I know several guys on the predator control board that don't even allow hunting because the last thing they want is a call wise dog.

I spoke with one of the trappers for the predator control board out of Natrona County last spring. He had over 900 coyotes dead for the season and was pretty sure he would break 1000. That's a lot of coyotes for one guy.
 
take the foxpro to hanna and kill a ton of coyotes and make Les Johnson's job a little harder!! LOL I think we are supposed to get a skiff of snow turkey day and then get nice again.
 
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Ankeny, I see you know Tim F. I know he is well over a 1,000.

Yup, he's a coyote swatting machine. In my post I said "last spring", but now that I think about it, I spoke with him in early January. I would imagine he easily broke 1000 before the thaw.

FWIW, his co-worker to the south and east also went over 1000 dogs. On the surface one would think they would ruin it for us recreational callers, but I got 8 coyotes in six stands two weeks ago in the same area.
 
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The dogs were outside of Rock springs about twenty miles on the side of the road. I was just curious why someone wouldn't take the whole hyde instead of just the ears.
 
Tim is a Coyote machine. He is one heck of a good golfer too. Last I knew he was a single digit handicapper.

ghilliedogger,
There are some Wyoming Counties that do in fact still have a bounty on dogs. I could not even pretend to know which ones for sure. I know that Converse County (Douglas) still does. I live in Natrona County and there is no bounty here. The Rock Springs area would be Sweetwater County and I am not sure of the bounty status there.
 
As far as I know, the Bighorn Basin (Cody and surrounding areas) has a bounty supported with funds provided by Sportsman for Fish and Wildlife (SFW). $25-30 per dog, supposedly puts up 10 grand a year til' its all gone. They use a paper punch on the ears, so the hide is still good to sell. You have to be a member in good standing to receive bounty, and for what it's worth, rumor has it that it can be hard to collect the $$$
 
Local Predator Boards have the option of using some of the money they receive from the state for bounties. The problem is when the coyote harvest for bounty exceeds the number of $ you have set aside to pay bounties. When this happens they can no longer pay for the coyotes. More than likely this is what happened if yhou heard about the inability to pay. Each county that has a predator board decides if they will spend money for bounties or not. Ankeny the 1st time I heard about it was from a Fremont County Board member and I believe they tried it 3 years ago. Not sure if they still have it or not. Park County has a bounty and I also believe that Wasakie County has a bounty.
 
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Local Predator Boards have the option of using some of the money they receive from the state for bounties. The problem is when the coyote harvest for bounty exceeds the number of $ you have set aside to pay bounties. When this happens they can no longer pay for the coyotes. More than likely this is what happened if yhou heard about the inability to pay. Each county that has a predator board decides if they will spend money for bounties or not. Ankeny the 1st time I heard about it was from a Fremont County Board member and I believe they tried it 3 years ago. Not sure if they still have it or not. Park County has a bounty and I also believe that Wasakie County has a bounty.



JCL, I should have better explained. I'm up in Park County. Just from what I've heard, there are a few SFW guys that you contact to collect the bounty, but sometimes you'll get the run-around, even where there is still plenty of $$$ in the till. Again, a rumor...I've heard some stuff from pretty reputable people. Also, I think you're right, the local predator board is in charge of creating the bounty, SFW donates a set amount each year. To the best of my knowledge, you do collect from actual SFW members, not the control board (plus you have to be a SFW member, like I stated earlier). I'm up at the hospital on our laptop computer as this is written, waiting for my wife to get out of surgery, so I can't really verify all of this. Regardless, it's possible that the bounty is only implemented for Park Co. killed dogs only, maybe not the entire basin.

On a side note (not really related to this bounty thread), not too many people realize that coyote (and other predators)regulations are mandated by the Wyo. Dept. of Agriculture, not the Game and Fish. If an indvidual doesn't know this, it's kind of hard to figure out license needs/limits, etc.

JCL, I think you and I conversed on PM last season. Where in Wyo. are you at again?
 
Again funding 6 million dollors to kill coyotes is insane. Coyotes don't do 6 million dollors damage in the basin. Government should stop wasting our tax dollors. Give the 6 million to people who need it. Give each hunter a share of that and i bet we can take one heck alot of coyotes without expensive helocopter and pilot salary.
 
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What do the pilots do with the pelts? I'll bet they let them lay in the dead of winter? I am against air gunning animals.
 
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I think they do pick up the coyotes when the hides are good and they are in a place they can land safely. I do think the additional 6 million funding is overkill as well. I'm not sure what the normal funding is. As much as I like to hunt coyotes, there is no way that hunters and trappers can control coyotes nearly as effectively as shooting from the air. I believe aerial shooting has it's place but my gripe is the additional funding and costing taxpayers $1000 per extra coyote last year.
 
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The dogs were outside of Rock springs about twenty miles on the side of the road. I was just curious why someone wouldn't take the whole hyde instead of just the ears.



Wich way from Rock springs and what road (highway or dirt road)? I killed a couple last week up there and pulled the tails off but didnt split the ears /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif.
 
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