A Model Bounty Program
Our Mason County Predator Bounty Program serves as a model for surrounding counties looking to establish wildlife and livestock protection groups. Predator management is a necessary component for any livestock operation dealing with razor thin margins of profitability, especially those involving goats and sheep.
Predator and prey populations ebb and flow and usually neither population becomes so low or so high as to cause undue concern for wildlife managers. However, in times of continued drought or sustained human incursion, predation can significantly threaten game and other wildlife populations.
Coyotes in particular have proliferated because they are filling an ecological niche once filled by larger predators that are no longer in the area. Coyotes remain abundant in the face of hunting and trapping pressure and continue to expanded their range.
Neighbor Helping Neighbor
Through this program, livestock producers alongside wildlife management landowners are working together to protect young goats and sheep as well as whitetail fawns that are especially susceptible to predation.
Facts
This predator control program provides incentives to remove coyotes and bobcats from participating Mason County landowner's property.