#3: What's the deal with Wildlife Services?

High Country News

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.