The consequence is that they eat deer, small game animals like rabbits and squirrels and grouse. ALL on the decline since they showed up in the 90's, especially grouse. Now you can't blame only them, there are fisher cats, bobcats, hawks, owls, foxes. Of which I see way more of the latter now when hunting, than I see small game animals and deer.
If it was up to me it would be open season on all predators including hawks and owls.....I see a shit ton of them. But try to shoot a squirrel or rabbit in my back woods....might take you 2 days to find one. A deer.....even longer. A grouse......in the 70's -90's you couldn't walk in the woods without seeing one, now, i bird hunt all year long and rarely even see one. I don't shoot them anymore, to me they are nearly fxcking extinct.
No offense...but the beauty of the 50's thru 70's and why we had leftover pheasants, lots of grouse, and rabbits and small game, was because DDT eradicated the fxcking birds of prey, we didn't have coyotes yet, the deer population in the western half was starting to really come up, then coyotes came in the 90's and its been in the shitter ever since. Small game populations, down. A lot of you guys may not have hunted in the 80's and 90's yet...but small game and birds.........was awesome back then compared to what it is now.