"...there are no coyotes in the [Sierra Madre Occidental] mountains, whereas with us there is universal complaint from Alaska to New Mexico that the coyote has invaded the high country to wreak havoc on both game and livestock. I submit for conservationists to ponder the question of whether the wolves have not kept the coyotes out?"
-Aldo Leopold, in 1937
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