PRESCRIBED COYOTE CONTROL TO DEVELOP AN “OPEN WINDOW POLICY” FOR ENHANCING DEER SURVIVAL

Tommy L. Hailey, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Breckenridge, TX

Document Type Article

Published in Coyotes in the Southwest: A Compendium of Our Knowledge. Symposium Proceedings, December 13–14, 1995, San Angelo, TX, edited by Dale Rollins, Calvin Richardson, Terry Blankenship, Kem Canon, and Scott Henke. Austin, Texas, 1996. Used by permission.

Abstract

Management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) holds a high priority on many Texas ranches today The use of “prescribed aerial control” of coyotes to increase white-tailed deer productivity may provide wildlife managers with an economical management tool. I describe two case studies of ranches in the Lower Rolling Plains where prescribed coyote control has increased the deer herds.