As an outdoor recreation business owner with a brand that is defined by the values and health of our natural places in Colorado, I am deeply disturbed by two proposed studies by Colorado Parks and Wildlife to kill black bears and mountain lions in designated areas to...

Competition and cooperation aren't mutually exclusive. Just ask a coyote or a badger. Both are crafty carnivores, and since they often hunt the same prey in the same prairies, it would make sense for them to be enemies, or at least to avoid each other.

In Los Angeles, coyotes walk the streets of densely-populated neighborhoods. You might wonder, what do these urban canines eat to survive? Biologists have been wondering the same thing. So they’ve recruited volunteers to help them gather coyote droppings.

Days after a mountain lion known as P-45 is believed to have killed 10 alpacas at a ranch in the Malibu hills, a team of wildlife advocates Wednesday installed a battery of powerful LED lamps to keep the big cat out of the crosshairs of a hunter with a state permit to...

IN APRIL 2015, A COYOTE MADE HEADLINES when it was spotted on the rooftop of a bar in Queens. It was hardly the first such sighting in the local news. That spring alone, coyotes were reported in the Bronx, suburban New Jersey and a tony neighborhood on Manhattan’s...

Coyotes are smart, beautiful, and resilient. Furthermore, says Dan Flores, author of a fascinating new biography of the species, they’re here to stay, and not just in pockets of wilderness, but right along beside us, wherever we live, from coast to coast. That’s not...

Wildlife Services will stop killing predators in Nevada’s wilderness areas, thanks to a lawsuit.

If ranchers around the West don’t make more use of nonlethal deterrents to predation on livestock, they risk losing access to the public lands they need, a conservation-minded sheep rancher said during a presentation on the subject last week in Ketchum.

It Takes More Than A Park, Even The Mother Of All Parks, To Protect The Grizzly Bear And Other Animals. It Takes An Ecosystem. Some people may believe otherwise or wallow in the nonsense that ignorance is bliss, but history matters. Today, we dwell near ground zero...

Until recently, I had never had any dealings with Wildlife Services, a century-old agency of the United States Department of Agriculture with a reputation for strong-arm tactics and secrecy.

he stories have been piling up for years. During a heat wave, in broad daylight, a coyote strolls into a sandwich shop in Chicago and hops up on a freezer to cool off. Customers and staff flee for the street, where a shocked crowd peers through the windows as the...

As of today, six of the 11 members of the Profanity Peak wolf pack have been shot dead by theWashington Department of Fish & Wildlife after a dozen cattle were killed or hurt in the pack's territory. It's the third time in four years that Washington state's...

Wildlife officials in Washington State recently green-lit a controversial plan to kill a pack of wolves fingered as the culprits behind a spate of attacks on cows there. The way the state sees it, taking out the carnivores could help prevent more livestock losses.

Although the protection of livestock from predators like wolves, cougars, and bears is hotly contested in the United States and Europe, control methods are rarely subjected to rigorous scientific testing. Non-lethal methods face higher standards of evidence—and are...

HUMANS ARE the world’s top predator. The way we fulfil this role is often mired in controversy, from factory farming to trophy hunting to predator control. The latter is the process governments use to kill carnivores like wolves, coyotes and cougars to stop them from...

In “Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History,” author and natural historian Dan Flores profiles the coyote, a resilient, intelligent animal that is well-equipped to coexist with humans.

One morning in the late 1930s, the biologist Adolph Murie stood near a game trail in Yellowstone National Park and watched a passing coyote joyously toss a sprig of sagebrush in the air with its mouth, adroitly catch it and repeat the act every few yards. At the time,...

Coyotes, the victims of attempted extermination, have found a way to thrive.

A summerlong debate over urban coyotes — and what to do about them — will resume Wednesday when a Los Angeles City Council committee considers whether the city should do more than preach coexistence.

By Dan Flores In late 2014, California became the first state to ban the most controversial form of rural entertainment since cockfighting: coyote-killing contests, wherein hunters won prizes or gambling pots based on the number of the wild predators they killed in a...

The shot rang out in the silent summer night, in Silver Lake. One coyote down. Summer is here, the heat is rising, and the hills are full of coyotes that are migrating down from their usual habitats in the now-parched hillsides to urban centers in search of food and...

David Greene talks to historian Dan Flores about his book, Coyote America, a biography of an iconic animal of the American West. Increasingly, the coyote has become associated with suburban life.

A $1,000 reward was offered by Project Coyote for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the sniper who fatally shot a coyote in Silver Lake.

I’m writing in response to the article stating Taos is entering into a contract with USDA Wildlife Services for coyote control. First of all it is important to understand why there is an increase in coyote activity, not just in Taos County, but practically everywhere...

A new UW-Madison study upends central notion about predator management

In 2014, Wildlife Services killed 61,702 coyotes — one every eight and a half minutes. The agency, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kills invasive species, nuisance birds and livestock-eating predators like wolves and black bears. Though its researchers...