. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 2006 Cluif: CoY(jn: Bri^hdinc; Hanoi-: in 69. Figure 1. Taiga Plain and Taiga Shield ecozones bordering Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories showing records of Coyotes since the 1960s documented in text. Circles represent sites prior to 2000. squares in 2003 and 2004. food. Consequently, Coyote persistence in Taiga Shield of the Northwest Territories may be strongly linked to a suburban environment, especially if an inadequate prey base exists elsewhere. How the public and wildlife managemen
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 2006 Cluif: CoY(jn: Bri^hdinc; Hanoi-: in 69. Figure 1. Taiga Plain and Taiga Shield ecozones bordering Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories showing records of Coyotes since the 1960s documented in text. Circles represent sites prior to 2000. squares in 2003 and 2004. food. Consequently, Coyote persistence in Taiga Shield of the Northwest Territories may be strongly linked to a suburban environment, especially if an inadequate prey base exists elsewhere. How the public and wildlife management authorities choose to deal with Coyotes as urban carnivores will be a key factor for Coyote persist- ence in the Yellowknife region. Acknowledgments I thank the trappers, wildlife officers, and biologists in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut for their assis- tance in documenting and mapping sightings of Coy- otes in the two jurisdictions. I also appreciate the efforts of airport management staff to document their sight- ings of Coyotes and to facilitate logistics of my investi- gations. E. Campbell was especially helpful in referring me to trappers and providing earlier personal sightings of Coyotes. Comments from A. Gunn, G. Elliott, M. Crete, and two anonymous referees helped improve an earlier version of the manuscript. Literature Cited Banfield, A. W. F. 1974. The mammals of Canada. Uni\ersit> of Toronto Press. Toronto. Ontario. Bekoff. M. 1977. Canis latrans. Mammalian Species Number 79. Bekoff, M., and E. M. Gese. 2(X)3. Cosote (Cams latrans). Pages 467-481 //; Wild mammals of North .America: Biolo- gy, management and conser\ation. 2"'' edition. EditedhyG. A. Feldhamer. Thompson and J. A. Chapman. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore. Mar> land. Chubbs, T. E., and F. R. Phillips. 2002. First record of an eastern Coyote. Canis latrans. in Liibrador. Canadian Field- Naturalist'll 6; 127-129. Chubbs, T. E., and F. R. Phillips. 2005. Evidence of ran
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