WINOOSKI, Vt. (AP) - Vermont Fish and WIldlife officials will be holding a public informational meeting about Eastern coyotes on Tuesday in Winooski.
The department wants to help people understand the animals and learn how to live with them because they are now well established throughout the state, said Mark Scott, the department’s wildlife director.
“Eastern coyotes first appeared in Vermont in the 1940s after breeding with Eastern wolves in Canada,” Scott said. “They are larger than their western cousins, and they are adaptable opportunists, living in areas that are well-settled by humans as well as in remote wild areas.”
They now have a role as natural predators in the state’s ecosystem but also have been highly controversial, Scott said.
The meeting takes place on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Winooski High School cafeteria.
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