Not sure how many will remember this , but back in the Sixties Montague County paid a bounty for Coyote ears…at the Courthouse… It was a lucrative source of income for farmers and ranchers plagued by chicken thieves and missing livestock in rural areas..
Seems the County paid $2.00 per pair for surgically removed ears of Wylie Coyotee…until problems arose within the program…some farmers were suspected of recycling from the Courthouse trash disposal….some dogs were reporting missing appendages…
Finally a Government Trapper was hired, in lieu of paying farmers, to rid the county of vast populations of pests…
If my memory serves me correctly , Ennis Posey was the guy last assigned to setting cyanide snares and traps within the county..
PETA was still unheard of , coyotes were the farmers plague…the government came to the rescue 55 years ago … but failed miserably at ridding North Texas of the familiar howl and scarce sightings of Wylie….he’s still killin chickens and guineas and goslins at will..
They also paid on wolf ears in the fifties, the last wolf killed in Montague County was 1971, have a picture of James McCall with it.