Letter: Stop the senseless slaughter of Utah predators

Regarding your recent editorial: Utah taxpayers have been subsidizing coyote slaughter since 2012. $50 bounties are paid annually from the Mule Deer Protection Act (SB245). As it turns out, fraudulent claims were paid out of taxpayer money!The fund tops at $750,000 annually. The number of documented coyotes slaughtered since 2012 is an annual average of 14,892, for a total of 74,460 harvested as of 2017. The majority of Utah taxpayers abhor this slaughter of wildlife, yet it continues.Coyotes ar