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By Taxpayers Association of Oregon Foundation
Axios this year declared that city coyotes are here to stay [6]. This is now more true since a State Agency just passed a rule making it harder to kill them.
Hunters can no long engage in coyote killing contests on public lands in Oregon after the Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 5-0, with one abstention, to ban the organization, sponsorship, and participation in contests that promote killing unprotected mammals, according to KLCC.org [7]. Conservation groups applauded the decision, describing such contests as ruthless and unethical, but supporters contend the contests curb the population of coyotes that kill livestock. It cost taxpayers $11,000 [8] for the State to remove five coyotes from an Eastern Oregon ranch.