Twenty eight years ago, the first coyotes arrived in Newfoundland. They had come a long way.

Up until the 1800s, coyotes lived mostly in the southwestern United States, and in low numbers in the Midwest. To the east and north, wolves shut them out of their forests. But when farmers and trappers exteriminated wolves in much of North America, the coyotes began to expand their range. By the 1970s, they had reached the far corners of New England. In the winter of 1985, there were reports in Newfoundland of wolf-like animals traveling across the ice to the Port au Port Peninusula. In 1987, a car hit one of the animals, and it was confirmed to be a coyote pup. The coyotes