Remembering Bob Sallinger, beloved Portland Urban Coyote Project advisor and conservation giant
Seasonal Notes: Habituation and hazing in NE Portland
Coyote Crew call for volunteers
Help us spread the word that Coyotes Live Here with our new yard signs
Coyote-palooza 2025 poster contest
New sighting report and evaluation form coming January 1, 2025
Consider including us in your year-end giving plans
Remembering Bob Sallinger, Beloved Portland Urban Coyote Project Advisor and Conservation Giant
We lost an irreplaceable friend this fall. Bob Sallinger, advisor to our project since its inception, died suddenly in late October 2024.
Without Bob Sallinger, there would be no Portland Urban Coyote Project. Bob knew pretty much everything there is to know about coyotes and human-coyote interactions in the Portland metro area.
Our project is hosting an evolving post in his honor: Bob's Coyote Friends. If you have something to share about Bob's lifework with coyotes, please contact us. His contribution to coyote issues was outsized and activating, despite being just one tiny corner of his massive impact across the state.
Our project gets reports of coyotes every year, and every year we have more reports during the fall and winter. Coyotes have lived in the city of Portland for at least 50 years and, at this point, their population is probably relatively stable. If you live in a neighborhood where it feels like there are more coyotes all of the sudden, it probably means coyotes have become too comfortable around people—not that there are a bunch of new coyotes in the area. Coyotes thrive in the forgotten areas of neighborhoods and coyotes, people, and pets are safer if they continue to avoid close proximity with people. (Learn more about increased sightings)
We've been getting reports of habituated coyotes in the NE Portland neighborhoods of Alameda and Irvington. Habituated coyotes (those that have become comfortable around people) are especially critical to haze. No matter how you feel about coyotes, hazing bold coyotes is important—it's something that everyone in the community can and should do to keep coyotes, pets, and people safe. (Learn more about habituation and hazing)
Be sure to remove food sources (never feed a coyote), supervise pets, and scare off bold coyotes. Please pass these tips on to your neighbors by sharing this page of our site and consider posting or distributing informational flyers. Thank you!
It takes the whole community to keep everyone safe—people, pets, and coyotes.
We are thrilled to announce that we are starting a new volunteer program in partnership with the Bird Alliance of Oregon, the Feral Cat Coalition, the Humane Society of the United States, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Portland Urban Coyote Project (us!).
Sign up to become part of the Coyote Crew—you’ll learn all about the coyotes in your neighborhood, how they live, what they need, and how to keep everyone safe and healthy.
Pssst! If you join, you might even get access to exclusive Coyote Crew merch featuring our new badge design!
Help Us Spread the Word That Coyotes Live Here!
We are thrilled to see our new aluminum yard signs popping up all over the Portland metro area! These signs help raise awareness that #coyotelivehere and we think they look pretty great too! You can purchase our signs in town at SymbiOp Garden Shop or online (while supplies last).
Proceeds from sign sales support our ongoing efforts to understand how people and coyotes interact and to help the community learn about our coyote neighbors.
Our heartfelt thanks goes out to Tim Ballard for the incredible design and the EZRA Foundation for fiscal sponsorship.
Coyote-palooza 2025 is ON and we are looking for a poster that helps promote our event—an educational street fair focused on Portland’s wiliest residents: coyotes. The contest is open to anyone!
Entries are due by March 3rd, 2025. One winner will be chosen by a panel of Coyote-palooza judges and announced in late March 2025. The winning design will be used for promoting the event and the artist will receive a framed print of their design and their name/social media/website on Coyote-palooza organizer channels.
We asked you what is most important to you about the PUCP in our last newsletter and on social media. Thank you to all who answered! Most of you value our sightings map, the ability to report sightings, and our educational materials most highly.
We took your feedback into consideration and are launching a new sighting report form on January 1, 2025. The new form will be both an evaluation and report form. You will have the option of answering questions about your coyote encounter and will get tailored advice and information about your type of encounter. You will also have the option to skip straight to the old report form if you don't need advice. We can't wait to see what you think and to continue to refine our tools to best serve the community. Please send any feedback to portlandcoyote@gmail.com.
Thank you for your support!
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 EZRA Foundation account. You can also support us by purchasing a lovely new sticker or sign in our shop—all proceeds go directly toward our mission thanks to fiscal sponsorship from the EZRA Foundation. Thank you so much for your continued support!
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