Agree with Brent. When the coyotes recovered from the poisoning campaigns, numbers of striped skunk, racoons, and red fox went down and, in conjunction with lots of CRP fields, we began to see more duck and upland game broods. Skunks were the worst in the uplands and racoons got the over-water nesters like Canvasbacks, Coots, and Ruddy Ducks. Red fox now seem mostly restricted to the heaviest cover, especially around farms and the edges of towns and the larger, now cattail-choked abominations we used to call prairie wetlands. Hunters keep coyote numbers down to where we still have enough white-tailed deer and cattle raisers lose few calves as few are born out on the open range any longer.