Davis cuts ties with Wildlife Services over coyote killings
One after another, residents of the quiet college town of Davis stood before the City Council, expressing outrage over the recent killing of five coyotes – four of them pups – by a little-known branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture called Wildlife Services.
Wildlife Services meets with its critics
Outside the meeting room, gamblers rolled dice and slid quarters into slot machines.
Efforts to investigate Wildlife Services’ methods continue
Two recent documents are drawing renewed attention to the federal government’s wildlife damage control program.
Editorial: Put pressure on Wildlife Services
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.