COMPOUND 1080 COYOTE HOW TO
That's all you have to do."Ī big part of Janet’s work is teaching people about how to live with coyotes, and that starts with understanding them more. But, she adds, there is an easy way to avoid tragedy: "Whenever you see a coyote, pick up the dog and go in the opposition direction.
Kessler says while coyotes are not interested in people, they might be interested in your pet. If you think you’re seeing a lot of coyotes in an area, "you're probably seeing the same ones over and over again."Įven if the total number of coyotes isn’t growing, it is possible that there are more coyote sightings - thanks to social media and platforms like Nextdoor where people can share photos and alert neighbors if they see a coyote in the park or while walking their dog. Kessler says that over the 13 years she's been studying them, the coyote population in San Francisco (at least within the areas she has studied) has basically remained the same. The reason this number isn’t more specific is because there hasn’t been a rigorous tracking program for coyotes. Each one of these “territories” has a coyote family living in it - or at least a coyote passing through.Īccording to San Francisco Animal Care and Control, the total number of coyotes living in San Francisco is estimated to be dozens. Since then, coyotes have been busy repopulating San Francisco’s urban parks - places like the Presidio, Glen Canyon and Golden Gate Park. Kessler explains that a much more likely theory is that a trapper brought coyotes over from the North Bay. "Most ecologists I've spoken to think it's kind of a crazy idea," she says. While it sounds like the stuff of Disney movies, Kessler says it's "very unlikely." One theory was that coyotes walked here from Marin across the Golden Gate Bridge. This was a big deal, and questions arose as to how and why coyotes were returning.
But in 2002, something amazing happened: a coyote was spotted walking in San Francisco's Presidio. This mistreatment nearly wiped coyotes out from the Bay Area completely. Kessler, who's 70 years old, says that people her age have told her that when they were kids, they were paid four dollars to bring in two coyote ears. Compound 1080 was banned by President Nixon in 1972, but people still feared and hated coyotes - hunting them, and even holding coyote killing contests. It was during the 1940's that people started killing coyotes en masse, using a powerful poison called Compound 1080 meant to keep “vermin” out of their ranching and farmlands. A coyote lounges on the edge of an open space next to a roadway with a constant stream of walkers, dog walkers, and traffic. Coyotes are native to California and were found throughout the Bay Area - including in San Francisco - until the mid 1900s. It may feel like coyotes are popping up in San Francisco all of a sudden, but they are actually recolonizing the places they used to live abundantly. To distinguish between the different coyotes, Kessler gives them names - although it's something that she discourages other people from doing because "it puts them in the category of a pet." She tells me about Silver ("for the silver eucalyptus trees"), Gum Nut, Acorn, Scout, Sparks, Scowl and Squirrel ("who waits around for squirrels.") I'm out until dark when I can no longer see the coyotes," she says. and then I go out again in the early evening.
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