This book is about the experiences and findings of a biologist studying eastern coyote ecology and behavior in urbanized eastern Massachusetts. It is written in layman's language and weaves in research results with personal experiences to give a fuller picture understand canid ecology and behavior while making it easy to read

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The most comprehensive book about coyotes, presented in a format that is easy to read and enjoyable. The author spent years studying the collective body of coyote research and thousands of hours in the field. Now you can become an expert on the most intelligent and adaptable animal in North America by reading this book. Whether you are a coyote hunter, deer hunter, photographer, wildlife observer, or enthusiast, you will find this book fascinating and beneficial. It will give you a true appreciation of the coyote. Order a copy today and expand your appreciation of this amazing animal and learn how you can apply the knowledge in this book to get close to coyotes in the wild!

Coyotes hold a peculiar interest as both an enduring symbol of the wild and a powerful predator we are always anxious to avoid. This book examines the spread of coyotes across the country over the past century, and the storm of concern and controversy that has followed. Individual chapters cover the surprisingly complex question of how to identify a coyote, the real and imagined dangers they pose, their personality and lifestyle, and nondeadly ways of discouraging them.

The New York Times best-selling account of how coyotes--long the target of an extermination policy--spread to every corner of the United States Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific research and personal observation." -Wall Street Journal Legends don't come close to capturing the incredible story of the coyote. In the face of centuries of campaigns of annihilation employing gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the continent from Alaska to New York. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won, hands-down. Coyote America is the illuminating five-million-year biography of this extraordinary animal, from its origins to its apotheosis. It is one of the great epics of our time.

Den Hunting as a Means of Coyote Control is an attempt made by Stanley Paul Young to give some handy tips to the readers on Coyote control. Principal biologist, in charge of the Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Control, Young wrote about the importance of Den Hunting stating, "Coyotes are particularly destructive during the denning season because of the need of extra food both for themselves and their young. Lambing bands of sheep on open ranges suffer the heaviest losses. Coyotes that kill lambs during April and May generally have dens, and when the dens are located and the whelps destroyed, the sheep killing usually stops." Contents of the book include: Importance of den hunting Qualifications and equipment of the den hunter Breeding habits and number of young Denning sites and habits Methods of den hunting Activities of whelps Removing whelps from dens Trapping and shooting adults

The art of calling to predators is the true essence of predator hunting. Developing and using sound sequences is an exciting tactic that brings cagey coyotes and Finicky foxes running to any hunters setup. The problem is that there are so many questions about developing productive sequences.This book takes all the guesswork out of creating sequences and presents a variety of proven sequences that can be used during all times throughout the calling season. Think of this book as coach's play book that contains all the calling tricks to use while afield. The text explains... - Sequences that red fox cannot resist - How to target Grayfox and make them come running - How to call in any predator with an earshot while not scaring others away - Several coyote-only sequences that work during all phases of the season

A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn’t most nature writers. He lives and works not in some perfectly remote cabin in the woods but in a city—a big city. And that city has offered him something even more valuable than solitude: a window onto the surprising attractiveness of cities to animals. What was once in his mind essentially a nature-free blank slate turns out to actually be a bustling place where millions of wild things roam. He came to realize that our own paths are crisscrossed by the tracks and flyways of endangered black-crowned night herons, Cooper’s hawks, brown bats, coyotes, opossums, white-tailed deer, and many others who thread their lives ably through our own. With The Way of Coyote, Gavin Van Horn reveals the stupendous diversity of species that can flourish in urban landscapes like Chicago. That isn’t to say city living is without its challenges. Chicago has been altered dramatically over a relatively short timespan—its soils covered by concrete, its wetlands drained and refilled, its river diverted and made to flow in the opposite direction. The stories in The Way of Coyote occasionally lament lost abundance, but they also point toward incredible adaptability and resilience, such as that displayed by beavers plying the waters of human-constructed canals or peregrine falcons raising their young atop towering skyscrapers. Van Horn populates his stories with a remarkable range of urban wildlife and probes the philosophical and religious dimensions of what it means to coexist, drawing frequently from the wisdom of three unconventional guides—wildlife ecologist Aldo Leopold, Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu, and the North American trickster figure Coyote. Ultimately, Van Horn sees vast potential for a more vibrant collective of ecological citizens as we take our cues from landscapes past and present. Part urban nature travelogue, part philosophical reflection on the role wildlife can play in waking us to a shared sense of place and fate, The Way of Coyote is a deeply personal journey that questions how we might best reconcile our own needs with the needs of other creatures in our shared urban habitats.

When Dr Ben Givens left his Seattle home he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.