The commission charged with overseeing Michigan's hunting and fishing rules is poised to expand Michiganians' ability to target coyotes, loosening controversial coyote hunting restrictions it enacted last year.

Michigan Natural Resources commissioners unanimously passed a resolution at their Aug. 14 meeting that states they are committed to allowing Michiganians to take coyotes year-round on public and private land through hunting, trapping and killing nuisance or damaging animals.

That doesn't mean reinstating a full-year coyote hunting season, NRC Chair Rebecca Humphries said. Commissioners are pursuing changes that would expand the reasons people could kill coyotes that are acting as a nuisance or threat at any time in the year.

"We need to allow year-round lethal take of coyotes in

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