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Why is the federal government still killing coyotes?

Category: Business
Duration: 00:08:51
Publish Date: 2025-03-17 07:00:59
Description: The federal government spends millions of dollars each year on wildlife damage management, a program that includes killing thousands of coyotes. Yet this program may actually have the opposite effect on the coyote's population. Today on the show, why the government keeps spending money on a problem it can't fix.

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