National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC)

PROJECT GOAL: Improve current knowledge of predator ecology, physiology, and behavior relative to depredations on species of human concern, and assess predator responses to management practices, and develop control aproaches that effectively target alpha coyotes.

Objective 1: Evaluate the operational efficacy and feasibility of sterilizing coyotes as a strategy to reduce predation on livestock.

Objective 2: Document the impacts of predators (canids, felids, ursids) on livestock and natural resources.

Objective 3: Document the effects of nutrition on coyote reproduction, social dominance, and space use as it relates to predation and population demographics.

Objective 4: Improve selectivity of existing control methods for targeting depredating alpha coyotes.

Objective 5: Develop a nonlethal deterrent by exploiting the wariness of alpha coyotes to threats associated with humans, and develop new, more ecologically relevant procedures for testing the behavioral responses of alpha coyotes to control methods.

Objective 6: Develop methodology for determining composition of predator diet composition based on trans-fatty acids.

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Logan, UT, Field Station