by Project Coyote | Nov 25, 2014
Above Photo: Coyote in Bolinas, Marin County by Nathan Forget (CC BY 4.0) By Chris Clarke A coalition of wildlife protection groups filed a lawsuit against Mendocino County on Tuesday, charging that the county’s contract with a controversial federal wildlife agency...
by Project Coyote | Jul 2, 2014
Above Photo: Bobcat by © Peggy Faranda EUREKA, Calif.— One day after a broad coalition of national animal and conservation groups urged the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors to terminate its contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services, the...
by Project Coyote | Jul 1, 2014
Above Photo: Pumas and coyotes are two of the main species targeted by Wildlife Services by USFWS (CC BY 4.0) By Chris Clarke Aside from the Internal Revenue Service, it would be hard to think of a Federal agency more sharply unpopular with a large group of people...
by Project Coyote | Jun 7, 2014
Above photo: Coyote hunting prairie dogs by Larry Lamsa (CC BY 4.0) By Darryl Fears For years, the massive toll of wild animals exterminated by the federal government as a service to everything from airports to ranches has bounced up and down like a yo-yo. Last year...
by Project Coyote | Dec 15, 2013
Above photo: Great Lakes Wolf by Jim Liestman (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) By Darryl Fears They say U.S. critter assassins work in secret, quietly laying traps, lacing food with poison, sniping at targets from helicopters. Few people know exactly how the hits go down; the...