The reason for the season on coyotes I was given by the susposed furbearer specialist when I asked him about it when it was fist enacted was that the bear hunters were saying they were chasing yotes when infact they were running and killing bears to get the galls to sell. We had a heated discussion about it. At a meeting later in the day he did not want to recognize me but the president of the trappers assn. got me the floor as I had been standing upwaving both arms trying to get recognized. The biologist did not know what to say when I hit him with the idea that had been sent out to the CO's wanting thoughts on the banning the sale of glands out of furbearers. A good CO friend had called me about the memo about it he had been sent. I never did bring the bear hunter/coyote season BS up at that time.
I have never understood why we have a treaty about the Mexican crow that never comes here making us not being able to control one of the causes of the demise of our pheasant population. I can still here the farmer from the old country outside of Holland on the moring of the pheasant opener telling us to shoot ever one of those nest robbing crows that sat in the old dead elms in the fence rows waiting to spot a hen pheasant on the nest. They would drive the hen off the nest and eat the eggs.
Dang things also rob every bird nest they can find eating both eggs and chicks.
