Scott | October 25, 2010

TweetDammit, we truly haven’t yet learned from our mistakes.  But, I really shouldn’t be surprised considering all of the examples that are hovering about the boundary that demarcates human and wildlife civilizations.  We are really striving to separate the two worlds and any interaction that just so happens to transpire is treated as a problem [...]

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Tags: coyotes, killing coyotes, pelt incentive, Wildlife management

Scott | September 8, 2009

TweetOver the last week I had the pleasure of partaking in an email conversation with Geri,  a conservation biologist at Project Coyote.  Rummaging through some computer folders labeled ‘school’, I came across a written account of a spectacular encounter I had with a coyote on some property that was literally bridging the gap between urban [...]

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Tags: coyote, coyotes, Project Coyote, wildlife encounter

Scott | September 1, 2009

Tweet Here in Antioch, CA we are by no means short of coyote, well at least that used to be the case.  Catching coyotes in a natural state of living was a common occurrence a couple years back, but now spotting one in our usual haunts is a fairly unique experience.  A number of months [...]

Category: Urban sprawl, Wildlife | 6 Comments »
Tags: coyote, coyotes, Urban sprawl, Wildlife, wildlife encounter

Scott | October 21, 2008

TweetI am ashamed to say that I may be guilty of falling into an observational torpor and have completely failed to recognize the lack of recent local wildlife sightings. As I sit here racking my brain to identify the last time I saw a rabbit, a burrowing owl or a coyote, I can’t help but [...]

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Tags: burrowing owls, conservation, coyotes, Endangered species, open spaces, Urban sprawl, Wildlife