Wink, I think I can start posting your responses for you!
Maybe you can do mine too in a lot of these cases.
Muddawg, the red wolf captive breeding program is probably the largest reason you don't see the same issues
you do where wolves were caught in Alaska and Canada and brought to places like the rocky mountain west and such.
Since the wolves in your state of NC were brought in from remnants in TX and LA and captive bred for reintroduction
you always run the risks of having problems. The NM program with our wolves suffers some of the same issues, though they
do in our state grab some livestock and cause some issues.
Size of them is said to run between the coyote and gray wolf which likely puts more direct competition between them and coyotes
including the interbreeding deal.
If you consider a gray wolf and its size is going to only see the coyote as competition or a meal, versus if your pack is closer to the size of a coyote pack enough so they can interbreed, lots of potential for overlap which may constrain them from becoming a bigger deal.
I've only driven through NC and had a govt. conference there once and though I know it to be a beautiful state, I don't know much about the leading forms of agriculture other than row crops. The more folks have tighter husbandry on cattle, sheep and other forms of traditional livestock that suffer to canids, the less the impacts that we see in the western U.S. where free range large pasture is the normal production method.
It is possible that the coyotes adaptability and cunning lead it to more conflicts with people, but that is probably open for lots of debate.
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