Coyote, Point Reyes National Seashore

By Jim CodaCoyote

This is a photo of a coyote facing the setting sun at Point Reyes National Seashore.

Here is a photo I took in 2011 that I came across recently.  I don’t know why I never put it on my website, but I just corrected that.  It was taken at sunset in the ranching area of Point Reyes National Seashore.

Ranching?  Yes, there is ranching in this unit of the national park system.  The ranchers were all bought out by the Park Service between 1962 and 1978 and, to ease the move out of the Seashore, the Park Service gave them reservations of use and occupancy for 20 years.   The last ones should have been out by 1998, but thanks to politics, they are still there and paying a rent for grazing and living there of often less than 10% of fair market value.  The Park Service is required by law to collect fair market for any lands or buildings it leases.

3 thoughts on “Coyote, Point Reyes National Seashore”

      1. I rescued a Coy Dog who was alone in the forest in laurel canyon when I was growing up. She was brilliant….she was very possessive of me and watched out for me, I took her everywhere….

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