Coyote Hunting Ban

[Ewok55]

Comment to CDFW!

https://blog.eastmans.com/california-no-more-coyote-hunting/

[elk hunter]

It's a progressive agenda hard at work. California is on the course to ban all hunting in the next few years and this proves it, again. Evil gun owners will be banned there at some point. When I lived there it was challenging to continue what I was brought up doing, now it's downright impossible. Good luck to those that continue to believe they can stop or slow down this agenda. 👍

[Shoot-it]

I heard of it and will not follow it i.

[NapalmCheese]

Hunting in CA has been getting generally more restrictive. I saw DFG presentation some years back when the lead ban went statewide that they were expecting to not lose a cent of revenue. They'd just been restricting things more and more in general (with some exceptions like the pig validation).

I've been working under the assumption that CA and the Fish and Game Commission are looking to shift their revenue generation from hunting and hunting licenses to monetizing other outdoor activities (parks, beaches, etc.). We are seen as dinosaurs, so it's not surprising that coyote hunting (something that is contentious anyway) would be on the chopping block. Given that the FGC has few (no?) biologists or wildlife managers I expect anything related to "don't shoot the cute doggies" will pass.

It doesn't help that the fur market isn't great and a lot of people shoot coyotes for wildlife management purposes (decreasing predation on game animals) and let them lay. To people sitting on the fence about hunting in general ("Why don't you just buy your meat in the store?") that's a bad look.

[johnnyh75]

I could of swarn it was pulled