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Agriculture’s Misnamed Agency

Agriculture’s Misnamed Agency

By The Editorial Board There is a unit within the Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service called Wildlife Services. Its official mission, according to its Web site, is “to resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and wildlife to coexist.”...
Davis cuts ties with Wildlife Services over coyote killings

Davis cuts ties with Wildlife Services over coyote killings

Above photo: Coyote pups by © Roger L Millert By Tom Knudson 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...
The Killing Agency

The Killing Agency

Wildlife Services’ brutal methods leave a trail of animal death By Tom Knudson The day began with a drive across the desert, checking the snares he had placed in the sagebrush to catch coyotes. Gary Strader, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, stepped...