A blanket of snow covered the ground as a group of hunters, bundled up from the cold, gathered around a scale in a Northern Nevada parking lot.
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This lack of protection makes it easier for ranchers to protect their livestock — thousands of cattle are killed nationwide each year by coyotes — but also renders the canines defenseless against coyote calling contests. Some participants flaunt the large number of dead coyotes on social media — posts that have a majority of Nevadans turned against the concept and spurred multiple as-yet unsuccessful efforts to ban them statewide.
State lawmakers have also brought forward bills to end the competitions, although those bills have gone nowhere. “Everybody talks about killing all these coyotes — you kill 1 percent of what’s out there, not even 1 percent,” Justin Pace Saxton said at a September meeting in Elko to discuss the contests.
It wasn’t the only incident involving a coyote that morning at the site — a second worker was also bitten, although that bite did not penetrate the worker’s skin. Following the most recent vote by the commission in 2021, the Clark County Commission and Reno City Council passed resolutions supporting banning the competitions; multiple rural county commissions responded by passingwas brought forth that would have outlawed the contests, provided a penalty for participating in them and required anyone who injured a coyote during a competition to transport the animal to a veterinarian. The bill never received a hearing.
What the Humane Society of the United States is proposing is a compromise, Goff said — it’s not pushing for the end of coyote killing in the state. “I feel like most of the bad hoopla comes from the unfortunate folks that do all the social media stuff and see piles of dogs,” he said. “If you had something like a bag limit … you aren’t seeing this mountain of animals that naysayers are glomming onto so hard.”In 2023, 388 participants turned in 3,798 coyotes, earning nearly $190,000. Just over half the participants submitted more than five coyotes; less than 3 percent turned in more than 50 carcasses.
And regulating or eliminating calling contests could be the start of a slippery slope, some proponents worry.
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