Wow. This is pretty terrible:
Canadian folk singer killed by coyotes.
A rising Canadian folk singer was killed by coyotes this week in a national park in Nova Scotia, a park spokesman said Thursday.
Taylor Mitchell, 19, was at the beginning of the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton Highlands National Park on Tuesday afternoon when she was attacked, according to Chip Bird, the Parks Canada field unit superintendent for Cape Breton.
Bird said hikers saw the coyotes attacking Mitchell and called 911. She was airlifted to a hospital in Halifax, where she died about 12 hours later, he said.
We're seeing a rise in the population of coyotes here in McHenry County too - usually they scatter when people are around, but this will sit in the back of my mind. Interestingly, there are a few pest control guys that have started cataloging coyote attacks:
info here.
Update:
Seems that other hikers came to her aid and shot the coyotes.
