Canis latrans

Coyote Habitat Conservation and Modification Plan

First-of-its-kind program introduced to North America for the City of San Francisco in 2016

The Coyote Habitat Conservation and Modification Plan was designed to reduce Coyote-Human-Pet Conflicts, improve ecosystem functioning and biodiversity in the natural areas and parks of San Francisco and other cities and counties.

The benefits of this Plan are 5-fold:

1) Home-range expansion into neighborhoods will be curtailed, which will reduce and or eliminate potential for coyote-human-pet conflicts.

2) The presence of dogs will be more tolerated in parks and natural areas shared by coyotes.

3) It will discourage the occupation of residential areas by dispersing/transient coyotes.

4) Because coyotes are “kept” in their natural environments, it will optimize the role coyotes play as surrogates of the large-scale conservation planning by the City to restore biotic communities, and

5) these areas can then be managed at a finer scale on the basis of the habitat requirements of other species at lower trophic levels i.e., endangered butterfly species, etc. 

 

To find out more information about this Plan, please contact us at:
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