THE COYOTES were there to kill me. That’s what I believed at 12 years old, as I waited in the dark in a wooden treestand, alone and armed only with a sluggish compound bow that I couldn’t shoot all ...

It was a damp, chilly November evening, perfect for deer hunting actually, but I’d already filled my one buck tag during the early bow season. As a teenager, I had just enough restraint to wait for a ...

After visiting with friends who own a small farm along the edge of a mountain, my wife Karen and I were preparing to climb into our pickup when the first of several hair-raising howls disrupted the ...

The eastern coyote migrated into Pennsylvania in the late 1960s from the Catskill Mountains in New York and they spread rapidly. Today, the Pennsylvania Game Commission estimates there are more than ...

A coyote stands in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Mass. Coyotes have lived in the East since the 1930s. Credit: JOSH HARRISON / via AP A few weeks ago my friend, fellow Monitor columnist and ...

Many easterners first became familiar with the singing canines when they howled and yipped through the speakers on our televisions in the 1950s and ’60s. It happened often on Rawhide, where Rowdy ...

WSHU: I'm sure our Connecticut listeners will hear this and think, 'What's the big deal? We see coyotes all the time,' but could you explain why it's so surprising for Long Islanders to spot these ...