I have to somewhat disagree with part of your answer Clem……..I think all you really need to trap….and all that is really feasible for most folks to trap….. is the weeks leading up to fawn drop. You’re just trying to create a short term hole in the yote population while the fawns on your property are dropped and get on their feet good….I cleaned out our property several weeks ago. So far cameras have only caught one more stray passing through.


If you have the time to do so, I think it would probably still benefit you to keep yotes cleaned out continually due to the fact that it would lower the stress on your resident deer. Most folks just don’t have the time and/or they’re located too far from the property. Also, I think just the presence of yotes on a property likely has some effect on deer behavior. It would be interesting to see a study on deer movement with and without yotes being present.