spaniel, I agree. In fact, that's what I was trying to say: That the Yotes in the eastern part of IL may well have come here (moving from IN west to IL). I hadn't spent time in IN, so I wasn't aware of the Yote situation there and could not say if Yotes were in IN to move west to IL. My experience was just the opposite; friends and relatives in western IL telling me their Yote troubles by the mid to late seventies, and as I hunted in central IL, I noticed that Yotes were there before they got here (eastern IL).