Animal Advocates Slam Fed Report Giving Wildlife Shooters a Clean Bill

WASHINGTON -- A recent report gave the federal program that helps control predatory wildlife around the country a generally clean bill of health, finding “no systemic problems” with vital parts of its operation – a finding that animal rights groups found preposterous.

The report was on the Wildlife Services program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has repeatedly come under fire from animal rights and other groups for actions that result in the inadvertent deaths of some animals. The issue has been a major one in areas where predatory animals such as coyotes live near ranching operations.

Wildlife Services has state offices throughout the country and has two main regional offices: Raleigh, N.C., and Fort Collins, Colo."

Chris Adams reports for the McClatchy Washington Bureau September 28, 2015.