Are you familiar with current laws on coyotes?In one breath you're saying we have to manage them so they don't get wiped out. In another breath you're saying land owners shouldn't have to follow nuisance permit laws. So if there is an open season and the landowner has an issue outside of that season, then all bets should be off on nuisance permits because it "doesn't appeal to anyone with skin in the game"?
With no season and protected status, nuisance permits are near worthless unless you have a consistent animal coming in. Establish a management plan which includes hunting/trapping and nuisance allowances just like coyotes and everything will be just fine. Landowners won't have to resort to SSS, DNR will collect massively more population data from harvests than through studying live animals and make money via license sales which will go right back to helping manage them. The animals will have a more secure place in the Indiana ecosystem, hunters and trappers will be involved in managing numbers, the state makes money and wildlife lovers get to see an occasional cat in the wild.
Complete and utter nonsense, I know.
Last edited: