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setting the coyote traps was legal, and something every property owner in Rappahannock is allowed to do on his own land.
Jason Culbertson, a conservation police officer who patrols Rappahannock County, said coyotes are considered a “nuisance species" in Virginia and it is legal to hunt or trap them all vear.
"They’re definitely becoming more common in the past few years," he said.
Coyotes are not native to Virginia. The species migrated tVom Western states and was first spotted in the commonwealth in the 1950s, according to the Virginia Deportment of Game and Inland Fisheries. Coyotes now live throughout the state.
Culbertson hears complaints about coyotes from time to time, hut landowners usually take care of anv problems they are having when they learn there is a year-round open season on the animals.
Some people even sell the pelts. Culbertson said 342 coyote pelts were sold to fur dealers in Virginia in 2005 and 2000. fetching an average price of $10.09 per pelt.
"The number (of coyotes! is
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