Research over the past 50 years has demonstrated many of the ecological values of predators. As top-down, or apex predators, furbearers like foxes, bobcats, fishers, coyotes and black bears help reduce populations of herbivores and rodents. This slows over-grazing of plant communities. As they hunt for food, they also eliminate weak or sick individuals and decrease rodent populations that are hosts for tick-borne illnesses like Lyme.
Photo: J Robidoux
Over the last two decades, New Hampshire’s red fox, gray fox and fisher have declined by 55%. New Hampshire’s wildlife “management” results in excessive trapping and scarcity before any management occurs.
Photo: Paul Malenfant
New Hampshire Fish and Game has a talking point that is not true: that New Hampshire’s furbearers remain “abundant and widespread.” They do not.
New Hampshire Fish and Game’s biologists apparently ignore reality and favor the fantasy that New Hampshire’s wildlife “management” policy is working. It is failing the fisher, red and gray fox and other predators- the data do not support this fantasy.
Photo: Cheryl Leatham
In the Spring and early summer, mated pairs of coyotes are driven, like all life, to thrive by reproducing. Doing so means surviving arrows, bullets and killing contests. Learn about the life – and death – of our coyotes.
Photo: Karen Walker
Occasionally we encounter policy suggestions which make it easier to hunt coyotes or even to take everything out of what makes hunting an honorable, fair chase. Read our response.
Photo: Cheryl Leatham
Did you know that coyotes are naturally occurring and native to our area? How about that the population self-regulates based on temperature and prey availability? Check out more true facts about our coyotes.
Photo: J H Clery
American’s war with coyotes has been so long and so hard fought, that we take for granted whether it even has to be fought. It doesn’t. In truth, coyote’s have incredibly biological properties that make them impossible to control with hunting. There are better ways.
