For those who don’t know, there is a whole class of Krazy linked to DDT. You see, Rachel Carson was an hysterical evil woman who hated kittens that’s why she wrote Silent Spring.

If you want to know about the DDT controversy, I recommend this: http://membracid.wordpress.com/tag/ddt/

“In fact, the most catastrophic epidemic on record anywhere in the world occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, with a peak incidence of 13 million cases per year, and 600,000 deaths. Transmission was high in many parts of Siberia, and there were 30,000 cases and 10,000 deaths due to falciparum infection (the most deadly malaria parasite) in Archangel, close to the Arctic circle. Malaria persisted in many parts of Europe until the advent of DDT.”

http://climateaudit.org/2005/08/30/mosquitos-malaria-and-the-ipcc-consensus/

No time to track down all the references, but here’s a handy one: http://goo.gl/A7Pa3

BTW, it’s not all wolves, but also dogs that probably contributed. Dogs are, essentailly, wolves, so it would be hard to pick the DNA out, I suppose.

Coyotes don’t eat people very often, but if they do, it is usually those northeastern types. They are larger, more wolf like in behavior, probably because interbreeding with wolves.

There’s some of that still going on near me (in MI). Many hunters, perhaps most, kill coyotes on sight. Everybody knows that is best, you see. Less predators will give us hunter heaven. It’s Leopold’s own thinking circa 1920. If I don’t get that this conclusion is beyond question, I’m clearly stupid about the ways of the world. A smoking tree-hugger, who unjustly is better at extracting deer and other resources than most. And there’s a grain of truth about coyotes – hey, they eat stuff, including fawns, young turkey, grouse, pheasant – stuff we want to kill and eat ourselves. Surely they are robbing us. It can even be rightly argued they weren’t historically present here (we had wolves instead).
Anyway, maybe part of the problem is they’ve never heard of any ideas that are different than the simplistic several-hundred-year-old “wisdom”. The last 90 years have taught us a few things – at least some of us. Maybe there are too many coyotes and maybe there are too few – wolves in Yellowstone, and predator extinctions in the Gila, have taught us that many things happen that we did not predict (e.g. Wolves make trout). The reality for coyotes here – the little we do know so far is squat. We act like we know everything though.