Coyotes

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Representatives of
seven national and regional
animal protection
groups on May 13 picketed
the Home Savings of
America annual shareholders
meeting because
the savings-and-loan permits
fox and coyote hunting
on the Ahmanson
Ranch, which it owns,
in the West San Fernando
Valley. Explained a joint
release, “The hunts drive
coyote and other animals
off the ranch into adjacent
urban communities,”
where they are “killed or
captured by animal regulation
officers.”

The New Jersey
Division of Fish, Game
and Wildlife on May 20
formally proposed a coyote
season, to run from
February 1, 1997, to
February 17. Hunters
would be required to use
a coyote call. Legal coyote-hunting
weapons
would include muzzleloaders,
bow-and-arrow,
and modern shotguns.