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Consider the war of attrition waged by ranchers and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to "control" the coyote. A cumulative total of $3 billion (in 1997 dollars) has been spent over the past 100 years to underwrite bounty hunters, plant poisoned bait, field a sophisticated array of traps, and introduce tasty contraceptives to limit the fertility of females-all with the aim of protecting sheep and cattle from these wily predators.1
The result?