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Post by brandonm on Dec 1, 2011 16:08:05 GMT -5
I'm a freshman up at Frostburg State, but originally from Charles county and I'm doing a project on the introduction of coyotes into southern Maryland to help control the deer population. Can anyone send me links or any testimonies of coyotes in southern Maryland? thanks.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Dec 1, 2011 16:29:32 GMT -5
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Post by brandonm on Dec 1, 2011 17:48:09 GMT -5
Thanks i have to try to tie this into sustainability and couldn't think of a better way.
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Post by osprey on Dec 1, 2011 18:02:07 GMT -5
I'm not from Charles County, but I went to FSU as well!
There are yotes there, but they weren't introduced, and certainly not to control deer herds. That's just another of the unfounded old wives tales about DNR. Natural expansion, it's amazing where critters will end up.
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Post by brandonm on Dec 1, 2011 18:23:50 GMT -5
i literally just got a call that one was shot on the farm where i hunt and it was a pack of six chasing some does.
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Post by hunteronwheels on Dec 1, 2011 22:23:44 GMT -5
I'm from Calvert County and I went to Frostburg as well. I suspect a lot of you guys chose that school for the same reason I did...the outdoor opportunities. Would like to see what you come up with regarding the coyotes real/potential effects on the Maryland deer herd. When you finish your research, why don't you post it, or at least an executive summary on the forum here.
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Post by davep on Dec 2, 2011 18:29:52 GMT -5
There is, or at least was, some info on the DNR website that Robert Colona put together some years back. Coyotes had been confirmed in EVERY county in MD quite some years ago. May I suggest you start there.
I still can't believe the old "DNR did it" BS is still circulating. Of course, half of PA swears it's so. Just like the black helicopters stories....
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Post by WranglerBowman on Dec 5, 2011 8:59:13 GMT -5
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Post by osprey on Dec 5, 2011 11:08:20 GMT -5
Snakeheads?! DaveP, think he's talked to our buddy Minkinnen?!
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Post by davep on Dec 6, 2011 19:49:53 GMT -5
Snakeheads?! DaveP, think he's talked to our buddy Minkinnen?! LOL, at least the guys in that office, if he hasn't already! Plus a few things going on with MD as well. Wrangler, if you want some names and contacts, PM me on here.
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Post by godscountry on Dec 7, 2011 13:56:01 GMT -5
I live in Cumberland, a friend of mine owns a farm next to the PA. line. A few years ago he killed a coyote for harassing his cows. The coyote had a tag in one ear with a phone number on it. He called the number and got an answer from a person in Colorado. He told them about the ear tag and they told him to turn it over and give them the other number on that side. They looked that number up a told him that Nationwide Insurance of Maryland "bought that dog". DNR didn't introduce the coyote here, the auto insurance companies did. Too many pay outs for collisions with deer.
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Post by BIG FOX on Dec 7, 2011 14:12:14 GMT -5
I live in Cumberland, a friend of mine owns a farm next to the PA. line. A few years ago he killed a coyote for harassing his cows. The coyote had a tag in one ear with a phone number on it. He called the number and got an answer from a person in Colorado. He told them about the ear tag and they told him to turn it over and give them the other number on that side. They looked that number up a told him that Nationwide Insurance of Maryland "bought that dog". DNR didn't introduce the coyote here, the auto insurance companies did. Too many pay outs for collisions with deer. HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA that would be AWESOME....
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Post by davep on Dec 8, 2011 21:08:43 GMT -5
I live in Cumberland, a friend of mine owns a farm next to the PA. line. A few years ago he killed a coyote for harassing his cows. The coyote had a tag in one ear with a phone number on it. He called the number and got an answer from a person in Colorado. He told them about the ear tag and they told him to turn it over and give them the other number on that side. They looked that number up a told him that Nationwide Insurance of Maryland "bought that dog". DNR didn't introduce the coyote here, the auto insurance companies did. Too many pay outs for collisions with deer. LOL, and THAT story is almost as popular as the "DNR stocked them" stories.
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Post by WranglerBowman on Dec 9, 2011 7:52:04 GMT -5
Davep, appreciate the offer but I'm turnin my paper in Tuesday. Def should have called Minkinnen when I started the project but I wanted to have intelligent questions to ask him after I did some research. I called MDNR and left a message with Early who was doing a lot of work with snakeheads at one point. A couple weeks later his secretary called and gave me the name of another contact, don't have time for the run around with the gov. since I only had 4 weeks to do the paper.
I'd really like to see pictures of that tag on the Coyote, and tag pics so I can read the numbers. I'll call in the tag # and see what they say. I remember all these rumors going around when I went to Frostburg but no one could ever prove anything.
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Post by osprey on Dec 10, 2011 10:05:38 GMT -5
Those stories are like Bigfoot, nobody ever has any proof. Heck, I still hear rumors down here about DNR bringing in truckloads of deer in the 60's from up north! Remember, believe half of what you see and none of what you hear...
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