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 a stop nationwide to a specific type of gaming, which it has termed “wildlife killing...

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, Steven and Dwight Hammonds, had received thousands of dollars in financial support from...

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, but failed to persuade the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commission. The commission voted 5-2 against the ban, a...

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 than a year ago, that question has stirred up strong emotions, and those emotions came to a head Monday night.

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 hard that it broke a tooth. It tugged and wrenched and twisted. Finally, exhausted and dehydrated, the 7-foot-long male died in the...

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 distinctive spotted fur that’s coveted around the world. In many states in the U.S., it’s legal to trap and kill...

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 exported to China, Russia, Canada and other countries.

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 to the scene on Wednesday, it didn’t take long to spot the coyote.

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, but failed to persuade the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commission. The commission voted 5-2 against the ban, a...

Since the idea of a season on bobcats was first put on the table more than a year ago, that question has stirred up strong emotions, and those emotions came to a head Monday night. The proposal Fish and Game is weighing would let New Hampshire hunters and trappers...

Howling from the Mountain writer Christine Schadler wrote a song and sang it to accompany this week’s column.

Marilyn McGee was recognized by the Sierra Club’s Foothills Group for promoting conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife.

The federal agency has been researching nonlethal means to protect livestock for decades. So why is it still killing so many carnivores?

The last two mornings my husband and I witnessed a red fox walking through our backyard. On a wildlife camera we occasionally put out, we’ve also documented coyotes and bobcats roaming through our yard. We live in Redlands very close to relatively busy Mariposa Drive...

As the sun begins to set this weekend in northern Wisconsin, hunters will start to gather at Main Street Ed's in the small town of Argonne, coyote carcasses in tow. Some will only have one; others could bring in a half-dozen or more.

Marilyn McGee, if you will pardon the pun, doesn’t feel as if she’s crying wolf when she speaks out against coyote hunting, something she is scheduled to do this evening. An elementary school teacher in Stokes County, McGee is the state representative for an...

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, Steven and Dwight Hammonds, had received thousands of dollars in financial support from...