How Good Coyote Locations Change For Me

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Here’s a pretty decent example of how I’ve lost coyote locations for the past 1/2 doz years in my territory. Caught 9 coyote in 9 nights here.  What kind of changes have you all noted and had to adapt too?
youtu.be/zR6uLf6qDiY

[trappnman]

I can remember as a young kid, driving with my dad...and we would pasass a little shopping center, etc and he would remark he used to hunt ducks there, etc....and I didn't have a clue what he wsa talking about.

But boy do I see it now. When I first went out east to PA, I was shocked at how many farms, were no longer farms in the sense of having animals, traditional farms. Fences were gone, fields were planted right up to the barns.

And over the years, I see it happening here. Too many small farmers are retiring, and while maybe not selling the farm, renting it out to either cash croppers, or thankfully in many cases raising heifers for big dairies.

So 2 things happening.....the number of farms with cows is decreasing, and instead of the traditional rotation of oats/hay, beans and corn...is now a pattern of beans one year and then corn, or corn every year, and that effects me in 2 ways.....lack of grass, and lack of access cause 1 crop farms don't need access roads like mixed crop farmers do.

and every little 10 acres of overgrown old homesteads that were great locations, now has a million dollar house sitting on it.

[Griz]

I am dealing with similar situations. Good trapping areas one year and developments the next. Also, coyote populations move around as CRP ground is put into CRP or taken out of CRP. The result is keeping me on my toes adding new permissions to replace the ones lost each year. It also keeps me thinking to deal with new situations and solving new problems which keeps me from getting in a rut doing same old-same old. As they say "the difference between a rut and the grave is depth".

[trappnman]

That is one good thing- had a bunch of land come out of CRP several years ago, but over last several years, I'm seeing more older farmers putting some of their marginal land back into the program which we need- bunny, bird populations have tumbled here in last decade