People have this consuming passion to control things and suggest that if you don't there will be a coyote lurking behind every clump of sagebrush. The logic is that if you keep killing them you will keep them under your thumb. The irony is that coyotes have such reproductive potential that it doesn't work, unless of course you go out and try to kill every last one of them. While some people may favor that approach, society isn't willing to put up with it anymore. Of course, there are cases where ranchers have attempted to be tolerant of coyotes only to be run out of business by mounting losses.
Coyotes kill, sheep die.
You can't blame a family working toward retirement or saving to send a child through college for wanting to protect their investment against an animal that is perceived as the enemy. But we all must check our closets and think of the wool we wear. If they did, then there's a chance the sheep that yielded the wool were protected in part by taxpayer dollars going to work by killing coyotes or keeping the animals at bay. The need for an agency like ADC becomes desperate if you are a rural wool producer with all of your future investments counted not in stock certificates but heads of sheep. You can be as sympathetic to coyotes all you want but if the predators are eating three or four ewes or lambs each night, the economic impact adds up quickly.