by Project Coyote | Mar 9, 2020 | In the News
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors has authorized the Wildlife Ad Hoc Committee, consisting of Supervisors Dan Gjerde and John Haschak, to work with county staff to bring back options for a strictly non-lethal wildlife management service in Mendocino County. The non-lethal service would be a supplemental option to the recently approved Integrated Wildlife Damage Management Program, which has lethal options for killing animals. The organization called A Wildlife Exclusion Service, which was created by Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue, would likely provide the non-lethal animal program services.
by Project Coyote | Feb 25, 2020 | In the News
Most Western states rely on hunters to keep cougar numbers in check. It makes a sort of logical sense: if cougar populations are high, attacks on elk, bighorn sheep and deer should be high. So should attacks on livestock and humans. But a new study casts doubt on the effectiveness of sport hunting as a means of predator control.
by Project Coyote | Feb 21, 2020 | In the News
For a week, Vanessa Prior’s Great Pyrenees named Ruth Bader has had a friend–a black coyote that researchers have been tracking since late December when it was first spotted in Smyrna.
It ended up in Prior’s backyard in East Cobb, where for a week it would show up every morning to play with Ruth Bader.
by Project Coyote | Feb 19, 2020 | In the News
The photographs are disarming: dozens of coyotes, their fur smeared with blood, strewn across the ground while grown men and sometimes children stand over them, proudly grinning from ear to ear. This is a familiar scene at wildlife killing contests, a little-known bloodsport rarely glimpsed by the general public.
by Project Coyote | Feb 16, 2020 | In the News
Washington state wildlife managers are considering eliminating hunting competitions, particularly of coyotes, citing ethical and social concerns. “Sometimes we have to do something for social reasons and this is one of them, in my mind,” said Barbara Baker, the Thurston County commissioner who requested the commission consider the changes. “This is the kind of thing that gives hunters a bad name.”
by Project Coyote | Feb 12, 2020 | In the News
She was first captured in 2017. That October, biologists in Oregon trapped, tranquilized and collared an 83-pound female gray wolf. They hoped to track the endangered animal’s movements, marking the start of a well-chronicled saga for the lonely wolf that ended this week. The young canine, named OR-54, was found dead Wednesday in California.
