DNA proves hunter’s ‘coyote’ was actually a wolf in rare New York sighting

DNA testing proved an 85-pound animal shot in Cherry Valley in 2021 was a gray wolf, not a coyote — only the second wolf ...
Outdoor Life

A Bill That Would’ve Outlawed Running Over Wolves, Coyotes with Snowmachines Failed in Wyoming

Chasing and killing predators like wolves and coyotes with snowmachines remains legal in Wyoming even after some lawmakers tried twice to ban the practice Thursday. The two efforts, a bill called ...
Colorado Public Radio

Colorado suspends foothold traps after one kills a wolf rather than a coyote

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is no longer letting livestock producers set foothold and leghold traps after one of the devices set for a coyote contributed to the death of a wolf in May. The moratorium ...
New Orleans City Business

Marshland mashup: Red wolf-coyote hybrids adapt to coastal Louisiana

A new kind of creature is making its home where the prairies of Southwest Louisiana turn into brackish coastal marshes. It’s a coyote, kind of, with bigger ears and longer legs that have adapted to ...
Post Independent Citizen Telegram

Coyote or gray wolf? How to tell the difference in the Roaring Fork Valley

As hunting season gets under way, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is warning those with coyote tags to be aware of the differences between coyotes and wolves. Currently, the federal Endangered Species Act ...
Missoulian

Idaho group sponsors youth wolf, coyote derby

A sportsmen’s group in Salmon, Idaho, is sponsoring a two-day coyote and wolf hunting “derby” geared toward kids, with two separate $1,000 prizes and trophies going to those who kill the largest wolf ...