☀️ Happy Summer ☀️

In this issue:

• We kicked off the summer a little early with the first annual Coyote-palooza.
• Expect coyotes to relax as their pups get a little older.
• We've got a new flyer for posting around your neighborhood.
• Consider our new workbooks as a summer activity.
• Thank you for helping us reach our goal for PSU's Spring Day of Giving (woohoo!)

Thank you to all of you who helped make Coyote-palooza a success! On June 1st, with ODFW, the Humane Society of the US, Willamette Riverkeeper, and many other community partners, we held a street fair all about coyotes near the PSU Farmers Market.

Activities and resources included:

• Colorable Coyote Fact Sheets
• Customizable Coyote Crowns
• DIY Hazing Rattle Station
• Coyote Howling Contest
• PUCP Research Findings
• Much more!

Visit the Coyote-palooza webpage to learn more about the event.

Jana Kreofsky

Seasonal Notes

Summer

Our reports are generally lowest in summer, but that doesn't mean coyotes aren't out and about. The higher activity and increased territoriality of coyotes during spring pupping season should be coming to a close as we move into the warmest months of the year.

Coyote pups are growing, weaning, and venturing out. Once coyote pups are weaned, coyote families no longer need to live in a den. Instead, they may move on to more temporary sleeping areas around their home range.

Coyotes, being the opportunistic omnivores that they are, will be happy to relieve you of your tomatoes, berries, fruits, and other garden delights. Be sure to secure your yard and garden by removing attractants such as compost and fallen fruit and by adding fencing if necessary.

New Flyer Available

We have a new flyer for posting around your neighborhood—please share it far and wide. The flyer directs people to a number of useful resources to help them learn about, assess, and report coyote sightings. We hope these flyers will help you share our message in your community. Flyers can be an especially useful tool when there is an uptick in sightings in your area or new, bolder behaviors from coyotes.

Coyotes in the (Summer) Classroom

With support from Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District, we created a coyote workbook. You can view and download it here. We encourage anyone interested in canids, urban wildlife, and/or the local ecosystem to use our workbook. We'd love to hear how you use it—perhaps as a summer camp activity, homeschooling tool, or even an indoor activity for an extra hot summer day. We are always open to feedback; we want our materials to be as useful as possible. Get in touch!

Thank you for your support!

This year, we participated for the first time in the PSU Foundation Spring Day of Giving. We weren't sure what to expect, because we haven't tried to raise funds this way before and, wow, we were so honored by your support! We surpassed our goal BEFORE the official start of the campaign. Thank you so much!

This project is mostly run in the little bits of time we can snag on the edges of our other responsibilities; your support substantially increases our capacity to continue our work.

You can always help support our mission—to understand human-coyote interactions and provide evidence-based information about living with coyotes to our community—by making a tax-deductible donation to our project through our Portland State University Foundation account. Thank you so much for your continued support!

Want more in-depth info about coyotes? On our website, you will find our recently updated tutorial.

Thank you to Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District—we couldn't provide our new informational materials without them!

Thank you to East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, Humane Society of the U.S., Oregon Chapter of the Wildlife Society, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for funding our first Coyote-palooza!

Thanks to all of YOU who have individually supported this project! It means a lot to us and helps more than you might expect.

Until next season!

—Zuriel van Belle