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 July 28, 2015 
 
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 "No one knew if the coyotes in these extremely urban areas were establishing their home ranges exclusively within the developed area or whether they were simply passing through on their way to natural habitat patches like Griffith Park or Elysian Park," said Justin Brown, a biologist for Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. "From just a few months of data, we now know that coyotes are persisting within home ranges that have high human densities and little natural habitat, which is quite remarkable." 
 
 
 
 
 
 Although the park studied coyotes from 1996 to 2004 in the western Santa Monica Mountains along the 101 Freeway and in the highly fragmented Simi Hills, this is the first study of urban Los Angeles coyotes. GPS collars provide detailed movement data with an average of eight data points over a 24-hour period. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The first of two coyotes captured for the new project is known as C-144 because she is the 144th coyote tracked since the National Park Service began studying coyotes in Southern California. A female estimated to be two or three years old, she spends most of her time in the Westlake neighborhood, a densely populated area just west of downtown with very little natural habitat. She is currently raising at least five pups. 
 
 
 
 
 
 C-144 is believed to have one of the most urban home ranges of any coyote ever studied and has already surprised biologists by crossing the 101 Freeway several times, near where it intersects with the 110 Freeway. Decades of coyote, bobcat and mountain lion research in the Santa Monica Mountains have demonstrated that the 101 Freeway is a near-impenetrable barrier further to the west. It's unclear whether C-144 is crossing directly over the freeway or is finding alternative methods like bridges or underpasses. 
 
 
 
 
 
 C-145, captured later in May, is a male estimated to be between four and eight years of age with a home range in the Silver Lake neighborhood. He has made extensive use of both residential areas and the natural habitat in the area, but thus far has not crossed any of the freeways that surround the neighborhood. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Based on a limited analysis of GPS data for the two coyotes, researchers found that more than half of the recorded locations are in developed areas, such as along roads and in high-density residential areas. The remainder of the recorded locations were in landscapes defined as altered, such as vacant lots or parks. Whereas 77% of locations from the previous western Los Angeles County study were recorded in natural areas, defined as at least one square kilometer of natural vegetation, zero of C-144 and C-145's GPS points met that definition. 
 
 
 
 
 
 More detailed information about C-144 and C-145's landscape usage is available on " Gridlocked," Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area's new urban wildlife blog. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Over time, researchers hope to learn more about how these animals are using the landscape, how much space they need and what kind of conflict, if any, they are having with humans. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Coyotes are medium-sized canids that inhabit most of North America. Coyotes in Southern California are often the subject of negative media attention, but serious coyote conflicts with humans are rare. In order to reduce the likelihood of a negative interaction with a coyote, residents should be careful not to feed wildlife, either intentionally or unintentionally. Learn more about co-existing with coyotes at www.wildlife.ca.gov/Keep-Me-Wild/Coyote. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Since 1996, the National Park Service has been studying carnivores in and around the Santa Monica Mountains to determine how they survive in an increasingly fragmented and urbanized environment. During the course of the study, biologists have radio-tracked more than 300 bobcats, 140 coyotes and 40 mountain lions. 
 
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 THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A National Park Service effort to better understand how coyotes survive in one of the nation's most intensely urbanized areas is providing new insights into their movements and behavior. Researchers captured two coyotes near downtown Los Angeles in May and outfitted them with GPS collars ( see map ). ||||| Off-Ramp ® is a lively weekly look at Southern California through the eyes and ears of radio veteran John Rabe. News, arts, home, life... covering everything that makes life here exciting, enjoyable, and interesting. 
 
 If you're coprophobic — afraid of feces — stop reading now. And do NOT listen to the audio. It will seriously disturb you. But if poop's not a problem for you, the National Park Service needs you. 
 
 From 1996 to 2004, National Park Service researchers from the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area studied coyotes in the suburban Conejo Valley — Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, etc. — and discovered they ate lots of rabbits (appropriately), mice, backyard fruit, and the rare pet cat. But now, as part of their urban coyote study, they're turning to a much more habitat-fragmented swath of urban LA that runs from Boyle Heights to Beverly Hills, including East L.A., Echo Park, El Sereno, Hollywood, Lincoln Heights, Los Feliz, Mount Washington, and Westlake. 
 
 NPS biologist Justin Brown says "there's been a lot of work done in a lot of suburban settings," where coyotes move back and forth from natural areas into urban areas, but there really hasn't been much work done at all on coyotes that live completely within the urban matrix, in little parks and vacant lots, and places like that." 
 
 Brown says researchers need to know how these urban coyotes survive, and so they need to know what the animals eat, which can be determined from the coyotes' scat. "Is it fruit from people's trees, rats, possums, skunks, raccoons, people's cats?" Brown asked. 
 
 And that's where you come in. 
 
 "We are looking for around 20 volunteers to help collect poop," Brown said, "and then we're looking for another 10 to 20 volunteers to help us analyze what's in the poop." 
 
 It's a commitment of a few days a month, for up to two years. "And we're basically looking to collect as many samples as we can get. The more the merrier." And yes, he really said that. 
 
 From the NPS news release on the Coyote Scat Team: 
 
 No experience is required, but these citizen scientists must attend a training on Saturday, June 4, to learn proper scat collection procedures, and will perform walking surveys on a monthly basis starting in June. They can also volunteer for the analysis team to help examine scat contents, a 1-3 day commitment per month. A 6-month commitment is required; the project is expected to last a minimum of 2 years. Training and analysis workshops for L.A. teams will be held at the Audubon Center at Debs Park. 
 
 If you want to be part of the Coyote Scat Team working the Beverly Hills to Boyle Heights beat, email samo_superintendent@nps.gov. If you live in the Conejo Valley, they'll be looking for scat analysts there, too, in the future. 
 
 And if you want to know how to tell coyote poop from dog poop, listen to the audio! ||||| Share this article: The National Park Service is asking members of the public to join a two-year effort to collect coyote excrement across Los Angeles. 
 
 Parks officials say no experience is required for the scatological survey, which will cover the urban zone from Boyle Heights to Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles Times reported. The goal is to assess the coyotes’ diets. 
 
 “We hear plenty of anecdotal evidence about what coyotes eat, but it’s actually never been studied in L.A. before,” biologist Justin Brown told The Times. “This study should yield basic ecology information about the urban coyote, which we hope will assist residents and policymakers in making informed decisions on coyote management.” 
 
 A team of volunteers will walk about 30 locations such as Beverly Hills, Boyle Heights, Echo Park, Hollywood, Westlake and Griffith Park, Brown said. Volunteers will be trained in how to identify and handle coyote scat, said Zach Behrens, a communications fellow with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. 
 
 Another team of volunteers will sift through the scat after it is dried and sterilized, working alongside scientists to identify what a coyote had digested, Behrens told The Times. 
 
 The time commitment for participating in each team is about one full day per month, with a minimum six-month requirement, Behrens said. Volunteers can join one or both teams, he added. 
 
 —City News Service 
 
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– Don't mind searching for coyote poop, or parsing through that poop for digested food bits? Then the National Park Service (NPS) wants you. It's seeking volunteers to help find and analyze coyote excrement, called scat, across the Los Angeles area, My News LA reports. The idea is to see how urban coyotes survive by looking at their diet. "We hear plenty of anecdotal evidence about what coyotes eat, but it's actually never been studied in LA before," biologist Justin Brown tells the Los Angeles Times. This two-year project "should yield basic ecology information ... which we hope will assist residents and policymakers in making informed decisions on coyote management." Volunteers will be asked to commit for at least six months and give about a day per month to one of two teams, scat-finders or scat-sifters. Finders will help scour a wide urban range from Boyle Heights to Beverly Hills, while sifters learn how to work with scientists in identifying digested food bits in dried and sterilized scat. The hope is to move beyond research on suburban coyotes, which travel between urban and natural areas, and focus on urban coyotes—what they eat in places like small parks and vacant lots, Brown tells KPCC. "Is it fruit from people's trees, rats, possums, skunks, raccoons, people's cats?" he asks. This follows a surprising 2015 NPS study that attached GPS collars to two coyotes found near downtown LA, per a press release. The GPS data showed that the "coyotes are persisting within home ranges that have high human densities and little natural habitat, which is quite remarkable," Brown said at the time. (Officials say a mountain lion crept into a zoo and killed for a meal.)