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 wildlife to
coexist.” This broad mandate includes everything from reducing bird
strikes at airports to curbing the spread of rabies.
Controlling predators that attack livestock is one of the agency’s more controversial tasks.
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