Outside the meeting room, gamblers rolled dice and slid quarters into slot machines.

Two recent documents are drawing renewed attention to the federal government’s wildlife damage control program.

Superior residents may soon get information about coyotes from more than just a sign posted at a trailhead or a brochure posted online.

When humans and coyotes come into contact with each other, it’s usually a bad situation for both sides.

The revelation, along with photographic proof, that at least three coyote puppies were recently born in Golden Gate Park raises some interesting questions about the future of the park – namely, how much time before roving packs of yipping wild predators drive humans and their decidedly un-wily pets out?

Eastern Nevada rancher Don Adair is not happy with Utah hunters he says travel across the state line to kill coyotes and then return to the Beehive State to claim what has been a $20 bounty that will soon increase to $50.

After The Bee published reporter Tom Knudson’s series on the federal government’s predator control program, two U.S. congressmen – Reps. John Campbell, R-Irvine, and Peter DeFazio, D-Ore. – have said they plan to ask the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate.

From its beginnings in 1914, critics have questioned the federal program of killing coyotes and other predators with guns, traps, snares and poison.

Almost all creatures, great and small, are welcome in the city of St. Francis, patron saint of animals, whose spirit imbues this place with a love and regard for our nonhuman friends.

Like many ranchers, Bill Jensen drives a pickup, shoots a high-powered rifle and loves to talk about sheep, cattle and the outdoors.

Like the prow of a ship, the Granite Mountains rise sharply from the creamy-white playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes.

Marcia Barinaga was hustling around making cheese, answering phone calls and handling business at her ranch in Marshall the other day, but the real work was going on in the lush green fields, where most of her 230 sheep were grazing.

Coyotes are a big subject at this time of year.

Since 1993 it’s been legal to shoot coyotes during daylight hours throughout North Carolina any day of the year, but a new ruleproposed by the state’s Wildlife Resources Commission seeks to expand statewide coyote hunting opportunities to include the dark cover of night.

Coyotes are a big subject at this time of year.

Calabasas is taking an innovative approach in helping humans and coyotes coexist.