Lying in my bunk at the Malheur Field Station after a long day of study for the Oregon Master Naturalist program, I suddenly heard the howl of a Coyote. Then another. Then two more. It is a sound like no other, and while I had often heard it before, it still sent a thrill down my spine; a thrill that would take dozens, perhaps even hundreds of pages to explain.
Fortunately, Dan Flores may have already written those hundreds of pages to save me the effort. In his recently published Coyote America; A Natural and Supernatural History, Professor Flores takes up both the natural as well as the cultural history of the Coyote, examining how it has managed not only survive but has seemed to thrive despite decades of efforts to eradicate it from vast swaths of North America.
