The deer population in the US is decreasing while the coyote population continue to grow. I will be talking about the decrease in the deer population, the cause for this deacresion and main predator to the deer, and how killing coyotes would help hunters.
In the year 2000 the deer population in the US was at 38.1 million. Over time that number has decreased and is still decreasing. In 2014 that number dropped to 32.2 million. The deer population is slowly repopulating due to a hunting regulation making it a one deer limit. Although the population is slowly coming back the deer also have trouble repopulating due to predators killing their fawns.
The main predator to the white tail deer are the coyotes. 400,000 coyotes are