West Obsessed: What’s the deal with Wildlife Services?

Info In 2014, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture called Wildlife Services killed 796 bobcats, 322 wolves, 580 black bears, 305 cougars, 1,186 red foxes, and 61,702 coyotes. Such high numbers have helped fuel the agency’s bloody reputation among environmentalists; however, they actually are among the lowest in two decades. In this episode of “West Obsessed,” High Country News Managing Editor Brian Calvert, Contributing Editor Sarah Gilman and Correspondent Ben Goldfarb discuss a paradoxical agency that has spent millions of dollars on non-lethal methods it has been unable to fully use. Audio West Obsessed Wildlife Most Popular Stories Recent Comments The Bundy bust-up At Malheur, Sally Jewell was missing in action National parks: Where we go and where we don’t Protecting the Oregon Trail from the development it helped create Forest Service rejects Grand Canyon luxury village A writer revisits the acoustical landscape of the National Park system. The national park system does more than celebrate beauty. It also commemorates the ugliest parts of our past. The Bakken bust has stranded schools and communities that hoped for revenue from a boom. RSS Feed Widget