I completely forgot about coyotes. While I don't make a special effort to hunt them I definitely dispatch every one I can while I am hunting other game.
Talking to an old farmer, a few years back, and he was lamenting the amount of ground squirrels that keep screwing up his fields.
His family had been farming the same ground, for at least 4 generations and his take on the entire problem was this.
When there were still wolves around, they kept the coyote problem under control; becuase a wolf will hunt and kill coyotes.
Since coyotes didn't want to be eaten, they would eat more of the ground squirrels; because they were easy for the coyote to get to and then go hide.
Then people got rid of the wolves and the coyote population rocketed.
Over the years, the coyotes grew more bolder and pretty much said "screw the ground squirrels" and went after more of the larger game, like rabbits and such.
This is pretty much the same way with deer populations, elk, moose, etc.
Since we removed the top predator, we now have to replace it with ourselves and we do that now by "culling" herds.
Wolves made herd animals stronger; because they took the weak and injured; whereas we make the herds weaker, by hunting the biggest and largest.