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Why killing coyotes doesn't make livestock safer

  • Written by Megan M. Draheim, Lecturer in Conservation Biology and Human Dimensions of Wildlife, Virginia Tech
imageCoyote at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado.USFWS/Flickr, CC BY

Few Americans probably know that their tax dollars paid to kill 76,859 coyotes in 2016. The responsible agency was Wildlife Services (WS), part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Its mission is to “resolve wildlife conflicts to allow people and...

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