Coyotes in Their Economic Relations

The bulletin surveys the small western wolves commonly called coyotes, describing their appearance, species variation, and wide distribution across North and Central America, and assesses their abundance and adaptability to settled regions. It summarizes general habits and omnivorous food preferences, noting both beneficial roles in consuming pests and injurious predation on game and domestic stock, with particular emphasis on losses to sheep. The report reviews control measures — poisoning, trapping, hunting, public bounties — and presents preliminary investigations into coyote‑proof fencing as a means of protecting flocks, illustrated by bounty records from Kansas and recommendations for further experiments.