Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference

The Extension Trapper System instituted in Kansas is described. Developed within the Extension Division, the off-campus arm of Kansas State University, it involves an education effort to teach landowners and land managers how to manage wildlife damage, focusing on livestock predators. Improved livestock management practices, coupled with selective removal of problem coyotes by landowners who have been taught to utilize traps and other tools, has successfully reduced coyote predation on livestock statewide.