Coyotes are the most persecuted larger wild mammal in the US. In Wyoming it is even legal to run them down and kill them for fun with a snowmobile. You can do it to wolves in most of the state%2C too%2C if you had a big-enough snowmobile. Millions of coyotes have been killed in recent decades%2C most of the time to pre-emptively protect private domestic livestock on public land and taxpayers foot part of the bill. Sometimes the cost of killing predators far exceeds the value of the livestock that have been killed and predators are killed even if they do not pose an imminent threat to cattle or sheep.  Photo courtesy Neal Herbert%252FNPS
Coyotes are the most persecuted larger wild mammal in the US. In Wyoming it is even legal to run them down and kill them for fun with a snowmobile. You can do it to wolves in most of the state%2C too%2C if you had a big-enough snowmobile. Millions of coyotes have been killed in recent decades%2C most of the time to pre-emptively protect private domestic livestock on public land and taxpayers foot part of the bill. Sometimes the cost of killing predators far exceeds the value of the livestock that have been killed and predators are killed even if they do not pose an imminent threat to cattle or sheep. Photo courtesy Neal Herbert%252FNPS