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25. It is your opinion 30 animals is significant

What were the circumstances of these animal attacks. What kind of animals. What kind of deterrents were used if any. My father was a farmer, my grandfather was a farmer, my uncle and cousins are farmers, and other than my father, they did not care at all about wildlife. So if that is the attitude of these farmers, then I do have a problem with that. Wildlife has its own rights and values, which should not be dictated by someone who does not like wildlife or try to coexist with it.

As far as keeping populations of wolves down by killing them, that is questionable too. If you have a stable family of wolves, they will monitor their own population and not breed out of control to their environment and what the environment supports. If you kill part of a wolf family, it becomes unstable. If you kill off wolves, and create a vacuum, they may overbreed to compensate.

The same for coyotes, a stable coyote in a territory, will defend that territory from transient coyotes. If you kill it, you open up the area to more foreign coyotes invading and overbreeding. There are ways to deter coyotes other than killing them.