Coyotes And Wildlife Services 2 Poem by Chuck Toll

Ranchers like to think of Wildlife Services
As a private club. In fact, it is a larger pawn
There for all who nature’s footprint on the lawn
Leaves feeling vulnerable and nervous.
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Wildlife Services does not trap and relocate.
Its methods, like its mission, are meant to kill.
Yet neither reports that prove its lack of skill
Nor environmental cautions produce debate.

The program’s problems? Faulty dictums
That miss the interplay of wildlife populations,
And killing methods that cause the decimation
Of living things not even the intended victims.

Glad wolves and pumas are gone they may be,
But coyotes are unenthused about the agency.