Coping with neighborhood coyotes
A coyote howling at the full moon — the quintessential image of the American West.
A coyote howling at the full moon — the quintessential image of the American West.
Coyotes and humans have shared the same environment since long before European settlers arrived in North America.
For hundreds of years, ranchers have been forced to address issues of protecting their livestock from natural predators, sometimes in violent and nonselective manners.
On a bright July day about 10 years ago, I set out for a hike on the steep and forested Pacific Crest Trail above the McKenzie River in the foothills of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains.
Coyotes have become a convenient scapegoat for Maine’s “deer problem.”