Dogged persistence
On a snowy trail that cuts around the trees is a neat line of paw prints which look as though they were made by a domestic dog.
On a snowy trail that cuts around the trees is a neat line of paw prints which look as though they were made by a domestic dog.
The Friends of the Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge recently sponsored a talk on coyotes by John Maguranis, the MA representative of Project Coyote.
For the past seven years, the little Modoc County town of Adin, in Big Valley in far northeastern California, has hosted an annual coyote drive.
Their eerie howl wakes residents of cities as populous as New York and Chicago.
The recent coyote hunt in Modoc County that sent environmentalists into conniptions illustrates a growing philosophical divide in California that has placed wildlife officials in a political and cultural crossfire.
A parade of angry citizens and coyote advocates showed up at the Fish and Game Commission meeting in Sacramento on Wednesday to demand that state officials stop a planned coyote killing contest in Modoc County, but commissioners said that current regulations do not allow them to interfere with the annual hunt, which is legal under state law.