What is it with the rural West’s devout loathing of coyotes — the culturally reinforced, knee-jerk impulse to raise the rifle and shoot one from
One morning in the fall of 1980, Rex Shaddox got a call from his supervisor at the Uvalde, Texas, office of Animal Damage Control. Shaddox
A controversial hunting event scheduled this month in Holbrook has drawn the attention of a North American animal conservation organization, with the goal of putting
After anti-government protesters took over Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month to support two ranchers convicted of arson, it emerged that the convicts,
Coyote hunting competitions were banned in California at the end of 2014, and wildlife advocates hoped to get a similar ban passed in Nevada late last year,
Should New Hampshire sportsman be allowed to hunt and trap bobcats? Since the idea of a season on bobcats was first put on the table more
Day after day, the mountain lion struggled to free itself. But the steel-jaw trap held its grip. Desperate, the big cat bit the trap so
You’ve probably never seen a bobcat. It’s an elusive creature that’s about two to three times the size of a house cat – a feline with
The traps are set near hiking trails, on public land, even in wildlife refuges. Their purpose: to capture bobcats and other wild animals whose pelts are
He’s been spotted repeatedly in a vacant lot right next to some homes in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood. When our TV crew rolled up
Coyote hunting competitions were banned in California at the end of 2014, and wildlife advocates hoped to get a similar ban passed in Nevada late last year,
