A West Jordan couple provided Utah wildlife officials with 237 coyote scalps over the past couple of years, cashing in each one for $50 under a bounty program targeting the pesky predator.
The couple’s hauls were among the biggest submitted in the five years since the Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) implemented the program in the name of protecting mule deer, but Jared Don Gasser and Stacey Lyne DeMille’s productivity was hardly unique. Several Utah bounty participants turn in dozens of scalps a year, along with paperwork that is supposed to indicate where, when and how they killed the coyotes.