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I was raised on a 108-acre farm in southwestern Missouri during the 1960s and ’70s. There were no or very few deer in the county where our family farm was located. But there were coyotes. I would hear them at night, see their tracks, and occasionally hear about a calf or chickens that had been killed by the coyotes.
Such losses were rare, as it was a rural area and coyotes were usually shot on sight. Many of the local folks would meet at a café for an early breakfast and determine where coyotes had been causing trouble. After breakfast, the men would cast (turn out) their dogs in the area where coyotes had recently been seen or where they had killed livestock, and the chase would be on! During most winter weekends, we would commonly see neighbors in their pickup trucks with dog boxes in the beds and CB antennas on the cabs, parked along our fence-rows. This happened weekend after weekend—for years.
At the same time, many locals trapped. Trappers recall the “fur boom” of the 80s. Fur prices reached an all-time high during the 1980s and many folks supplemented their income with raccoon and coyote pelts.
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