Mount McKinley and Yellowstone are at present the only parks where circumstances clearly justify coyote control. Inasmuch as there is no way of preventing the invasion of the park at the boundary line, the word control is used advisedly. It is the only way to meet the coyote problem. The solution could be a satisfactory one if there were any practical selective method which could be used. Shooting is selective, but it is costly and not sufficiently effective for the coyote.
Trapping is the next best.
It is effective but not selective. In Mount McKinley the prized foxes and wolves, as well as wolverines and others, would suffer, too. Poisoning, of course, could not be allowed. It would be better to have the coyote. When a satisfactory method for taking coyotes without harming anything else is discovered, one of the most puzzling of all wild-life problems will be solved.