Should Utah pay $50 bounties on coyotes killed in controversial contests?

State employees sometimes staff event checkins to process bounties sought by contestants as they bring in truckloads of dead predators

(Rick Bowmer | AP) A coyote travels across ice formed on the Great Salt Lake Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, on Antelope Island. Since 2012, Utah wildlife officials have paid a $50 bounty on coyotes. An unknown portion of those taxpayer-funded bounties are paid on coyotes taken in controversial killing contests, that critics blast as an insult to Utah's wildlife heritage.

Should Utah pay $50 bounties on coyotes killed in controversial contests?

State employees sometimes staff event checkins to process bounties sought by contestants as they bring in truckloads of dead predators

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