Wildlife officials: 2 reports this week of coyotes menacing Boulder Creek Path users. By Charlie Brennan Camera Staff Writer Posted: 12/27/2012 12:39:03 PM MST | Updated: about a year ago Reporting aggressive animals Anyone with reports of aggressive wild animals is asked to contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 303-291-7227, or, if it is after hours, to call the Colorado State Patrol at 303-239-4501, and the report will be forwarded to wildlife personnel.
Such reports also may be phoned in to the Boulder Police Department's non-emergency number, 303-441-3333. Wildlife officials are concerned about two cases of coyotes menacing people on the eastern portion of the Boulder Creek Path in the past four days. The first incident occurred Monday morning, when a woman walking her friend's standard poodle on the path just west of 55th Street reported that a coyote "came after her," according to Jennifer Churchill, spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. "I came around the corner there right next to the creek, and saw the coyote," Olson said.
Coyote bites Boulder jogger on Skunk Creek Trail, further boosting concern. By Charlie Brennan Camera Staff Writer Posted: 01/02/2013 06:58:45 PM MST | Updated: about a year ago Reporting aggressive animals Anyone with reports of aggressive wild animals is asked to contact Colorado Parks and Wildlife between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 303-291-7227, or, if it is after hours, to call the Colorado State Patrol at 303-239-4501, and the report will be forwarded to wildlife personnel.
Such reports also may be phoned in to the Boulder Police Department's non-emergency number, 303-441-3333. Boulder, state wildlife officials plot coyote strategy. By Charlie Brennan Camera Staff Writer Posted: 01/04/2013 06:21:20 PM MST | Updated: about a year ago No immediate decisions were made Friday in a meeting among city, university and state Parks and Wildlife officials in response to a series of recent confrontations between humans and coyotes.
At the meeting's conclusion, one participant disclosed there are now five reported recent cases, starting Dec. 24, of coyotes behaving in a threatening manner toward people in east Boulder within proximity of the Boulder Creek Path. Three of those episodes had already been made public, including the biting of a female jogger Dec. 29 on the University of Colorado Research Park campus. On Friday, Val Matheson, Boulder's urban wildlife conservation coordinator, recounted two more.
On Dec. 27, Matheson said, a jogger was approached within 5 feet by a coyote on the Boulder Creek Path just east of 49th Street. "We wanted to move forward collaboratively. "I wish the city of Boulder the best," Pritz added. Officials: Boulder coyotes' fate won't be driven by public opinion. By Charlie Brennan Camera Staff Writer Posted: 01/08/2013 07:46:29 PM MST | Updated: about a year ago The firestorm of public opinion around the recent unauthorized shooting of a bull elk by a Boulder police officer will not affect the possible use of lethal measures in dealing with a string of aggressive coyote reports, wildlife officials said Tuesday.
The number of aggressive coyote reports since Dec. 24 -- including one biting of a jogger -- has grown to six, with word of a cyclist being chased Jan. 2 at the Goose Creek underpass near the Boulder Creek Path. Authorities also received a seventh report Tuesday, this time of a cyclist chased and nearly bitten in early December on the Boulder Creek Path six blocks west of Foothills Parkway. "Our agency understands very clearly that when public safety is an issue, we are going to act," said Jennifer Churchill, spokeswoman for Colorado Parks and Wildlife. But Matheson emphasized the city's preferred use of nonviolent strategies. Boulder coyote management plan could come Monday. Seven reported incidents from Christmas Eve to Jan. 2.
Boulder coyote management plan calls for hazing, possible 'lethal control' New plan to be implemented Friday after 7 confrontations since Dec. 24 By Charlie Brennan, Camera staff writer Posted: 01/17/2013 03:46:55 PM MST | Updated: about a year ago A coyote crosses the South Boulder Creek Trail north of the Boulder Community Hospital on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.
(Mark Leffingwell / Daily Camera) It's about to get a bit hair-raising for the Boulder Creek Path coyotes. The city of Boulder on Friday will launch a 28-day program of hazing along a roughly 2-mile section of the Boulder Creek Path aimed at solving the problem of misbehaving coyotes generally ranging from 30th Street east to 55th Street. Additionally, there will be periodic patrols of the area carried out by animal control officers and open space rangers.
And, as has long been the case, if a coyote that has been involved in a serious, aggressive interaction with a person can be identified, it will be shot and killed. "So, this is a hazing program. People are advised to keep a good distance from coyotes.