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Anybody have any info on such studies? I would love to know what the coyote population of my state (Iowa) is. Could there be a coyote per square mile?
There are 55,875 square miles of land in Iowa. Could there possibly be that many coyotes. I can't imagine that there could be.
We have roughly 350,000 deer in Iowa before the deer season. If there was one coyote for every ten deer we would have roughly 35,000 coyotes. I live in the hill country in NE Iowa, where there are way more than 10 deer for each coyote, but there are so many open sections in the flat part of the state that don't have nearly as many deer as my county does, so it would be hard to say what the ratio would be for the state.
The reason I ask this is because people that don't hunt coyotes around here are always under the impression that there are tons of them around, and that getting them should be easy. The last two times I have gone out I have not so much as seen a track, and I covered a lot of ground in some pretty big woods and brushy areas. Unless they can fly, there has been no coyotes in these areas since the last snows, which were three days and two days earlier for each hunt. My calling partner and I can hunt a weekend and make 20 sets and only find tracks in half of the areas we call, and we are only calling the areas that look good for holding coyotes and food for them to eat.
So any ideas on what the density of coyotes is here in Iowa or your home state? Would love to hear some opinions.
There are 55,875 square miles of land in Iowa. Could there possibly be that many coyotes. I can't imagine that there could be.
We have roughly 350,000 deer in Iowa before the deer season. If there was one coyote for every ten deer we would have roughly 35,000 coyotes. I live in the hill country in NE Iowa, where there are way more than 10 deer for each coyote, but there are so many open sections in the flat part of the state that don't have nearly as many deer as my county does, so it would be hard to say what the ratio would be for the state.
The reason I ask this is because people that don't hunt coyotes around here are always under the impression that there are tons of them around, and that getting them should be easy. The last two times I have gone out I have not so much as seen a track, and I covered a lot of ground in some pretty big woods and brushy areas. Unless they can fly, there has been no coyotes in these areas since the last snows, which were three days and two days earlier for each hunt. My calling partner and I can hunt a weekend and make 20 sets and only find tracks in half of the areas we call, and we are only calling the areas that look good for holding coyotes and food for them to eat.
So any ideas on what the density of coyotes is here in Iowa or your home state? Would love to hear some opinions.