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By Chad Love

As if California sportsmen don't have enough to worry about, an internal audit conducted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has revealed that millions of dollars meant for wildlife have instead been going to pretty much everything but wildlife.

From this story in the Los Angeles Times:
Over the last decade, millions of public dollars intended for wildlife preservation areas were spent off the books on state office needs, equipment and building construction, among other items, officials said Thursday.

By Chad Love

Two Oklahoma teenagers tried to run over a coyote with their truck and ended up rolling it instead, according to a police report.

From this story in the Tulsa World: 
Medics transported two Claremore teenagers to a Tulsa hospital after they reportedly tried to run over a coyote. According to an Oklahoma Highway Patrol report, Paden Begley, 17, was driving a 1989 dodge truck north on Sunday on old Oklahoma 88 when he saw a coyote running through a sod farm field. Begley then reportedly turned the truck into the field to try to run over the coyote, according to the OHP. The report states that the "coyote took evasive action," and Begley turned the truck sharply to follow the coyote, causing the truck to roll.

By Chad Love

A government trapper in the USDA's wildlife services division is under fire after taking photographs that appear to show his dogs tormenting coyotes caught in leghold traps, and then posting the photographs on Facebook and Twitter. The photos, which inevitably went viral, have now sparked an investigation.

From this story in the Missoula Independent: 
In early November, Jamie Olson, a federal Wildlife Services employee in Wyoming, told the Indy he made a “big-ass mistake” in posting several photos of live coyotes caught in leg-hold traps on Facebook and Twitter. Those photos, some of which appeared to show Olson’s dogs tormenting the trapped coyotes, outraged animal-rights groups and triggered an investigation...