Links
ARTICLES, VIDEOS, PRESENTATIONS, INTERVIEWS , & EXHIBITS BY or WITH JANET KESSLER
Invitation to speak at China Camp State Park by Friends of China Camp, March 28th, 2020 at 5:30pm.
Coexisting With Coyotes -- Be Careful With Pets, by Olivia Boler, Noe Valley Voice, March 2020 (pages 1, 9-10): http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2020/March/index.html
Tripp Robbins, Making Peace With Coyotes, Half Moon Bay Magazine, March, 2020 Issue: https://issuu.com/wickcommunications/docs/hmb-march20_web/1?e=1225821/76440932
Mike McPhate of the California Sun likes my “stuff” and posted links and a photo on the March, 6, 2020 daily roundup: https://www.californiasun.co/email/closures-cancellations-and-infections-shel-silversteins-sausalito-houseboat/?item=9
Monica Serrano and Ben Sacks, et. al., Poster: San Francisco Urban Coyote Repopulation: A Noninvasive Genetic Perspective, January 2020 [see https://coyoteyipps.com/2020/02/28/my-sf-coyote-dna-study-continues/]
“San Francisco Coyotes Are Back and They Are Thriving”, Interview with Bianca Taylor for a podcast, Associate Producer, Segmented Audio & Podcasts at KQED, February 20, 2020. https://www.kqed.org/news/11799871/bay-curious-coyotes
Interview for Documentary with Michelle Klug and William Poor, Senior Producer at The Verge of VoxMedia, January 29, 2020, to be aired in March.
An Invitation to speak at Kristin Engler’s 3rd grade class at Alvarado School, January 15, 2020 at 1pm: “Coyote Citizens: WHO they are and HOW to get Along (Young Person’s Version).
An Invitation to speak at El Cerrito’s Environmental Quality Committee (ECEQC) on January 14, 2020 at 7pm: “Coyote Citizens: WHO they are and HOW to get along”, El Cerrito City Hall, in the City Council Chamber Room, 10890 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, 94530.
An Invitation to speak at The Sequoias in San Francisco in January, 2020: “Coyote Citizens: WHO they are and HOW to get along”.
An Invitation to speak at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA, an information public presentation: “Inside The Lives of Urban Coyotes”, October 18, 2019.
An Invitation to Speak at the Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA’s Summer Animal Camp, on June 26, August 1 and August 15, 2019: “Coyotes in SF for Animal Campers”.
Caught on Camera: Presidio Coyotes Without People, by Elizabeth Rogers, with mention of Janet Kessler’s observations, in Bay Nature, April 8, 2019: https://baynature.org/2019/04/08/caught-on-camera-the-presidios-coyotes-when-people-arent-around/
Display of selected images from “Beyond the Howl” exhibit of less-seen coyote family behaviors at the Josephine Randall Junior Museum in San Francisco, February 2019 and ongoing.
An Invitation to Speak: “Janet Kessler: Coyotes in San Francisco”, Thursday, December 6th at 5:30 at Pauline’s Pizza at 260 Valencia Street in San Francisco.
An Invitation to Speak: “Janet Kessler: Zooming-in on Coyotes for the Lindsay Wildlife Center Volunteers”, Monday, October 1, 2018, and “Inside the Lives of Urban Coyotes” on Monday, September 9, 2019 at the Lindsay Wildlife Center in Walnut Creek
An Invitation to Speak: “Janet Kessler: Zooming-in on Coyotes”, Environmental Political Theory Workshop at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Wednesday March 28th, 2018 at the Hyatt Embarcadero. https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/ept-workshop-schedule-2018.pdf
An Exhibit: Coyotes: “Beyond The Howl”, a photo and informational exhibit at the Sausalito Public Library, January 28 to March 10, 2018. https://baynature.org/event/coyotes-beyond-howl/
Bernal Coyote Hit by a Car But Recovers Quickly, Published in Bernalwood Blog (by request) on April 28, 2017
https://bernalwood.com/2017/04/28/bernal-coyote-hit-by-car-but-recovers-quickly/
Bernal Coyote Scared but Safe After Close Call With Dog,
Published on Bernalwood Blog (by request), April 3, 2017
https://bernalwood.com/2017/04/03/bernal-coyote-scared-but-safe-after-close-call-with-dog/
Citizen Coyote: Let's Get To Know Them: An Introduction
Self-published on YouTube, Jan 16, 2017
Description: An introduction to urban coyotes based on my observations and using my observation photos. This video is well suited for classrooms.
Also available in Spanish, Ciudadanos Coyotes (https://youtu.be/2JbD5kVbeeE)
The Bernal Coyote is a Female and Human *Kindness* Could Kill Her,
Published on Bernalwood Blog, November 29, 2016
https://bernalwood.com/2016/11/29/the-bernal-coyote-is-a-female-and-kindness-may-kill-her/
Sharing Bernal Hill With Our Coyote: A User's Guide
Published on Bernalwood Blog, April 27, 2016
This article is about coyote behaviors which have been misinterpreted and caused fear -- have been discussed on social media recently without much comprehension of what is actually going on — this article is to explain behavior and offer guidelines for coexistence.
https://bernalwood.com/2016/05/27/sharing-bernal-hill-with-our-coyote-a-users-guide/
How to Get Along With Coyotes As Pups Venture Out, Bay Nature, August 6, 2015
How to avoid coyote encounters during the end of pupping season if you have a dog, and what steps to take if one comes too close.
https://baynature.org/article/how-to-get-along-with-coyotes-as-pups-venture-out/
During Pup Season, Coyote Whisperer Warns of Canine Encounters, Bernalwood Blog, August 31, 2015
https://bernalwood.com/2015/08/31/during-pup-season-coyote-whisperer-warns-of-canine-encounters/
Managing Urban Coyotes, Save Sutro Forest Blog, November 21, 2014
description: How to get along with our urban coyotes
https://sutroforest.com/2014/11/21/managing-urban-coyotes-by-janet-kessler/
What to do if you encounter a coyote, Wildcare Magazine, August, 2014
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/coyote_encounters-6.pdf
Inside A Coyote Family, Wildcare Magazine, August 2014
description: Coyotes are social and have intense family lives: a photo and text essay.
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/inside-a-coyote-family.pdf
Photo Essay: Coyotes Raising Kids in San Francisco, Bay Nature, October 16, 2013
description: Coyotes are social animals with intense nuclear family lives. Here are some photos depicting some of their "raising the kids in the city" behaviors.
https://baynature.org/article/photo-gallery-coyotes-raising-kids-san-francisco/
Coyotes As Neighbors: Focus On Facts, Youtube June 2013 (also in Spanish and Mandarin)
description: I created, photographed, wrote, and assembled this video, based almost entirely on my own field research except the last section on "killing coyotes".
English: https://youtu.be/euG7R11aXq0; Spanish: https://youtu.be/FjVGKwLiYG4; Mandarin: https://youtu.be/aFWyegSrNHw
How To Shoo Off A Coyote, Youtube video, June 2013
A shortened version of the “Coyotes As Neighbors” video.
How To Handle A Coyote Encounter: A Primer
description: What coyote behaviors to expect if you encounter one, and how to handle the situation. A self-published pamphlet for free distribution, first published January 2013
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/updated-guidelines-2016.pdf
Poisoning to Create a "Natural Area”, Marina Times, April 2011
description: Poisons are being used in our public parks without folks knowing about it to create a so-called "natural area". People need to be made aware of this contradiction. What is being created is not a "natural area", but little native gardens which need constant maintenance, poisons, and killing of many of the plants that keep our parks green and beautiful.
http://www.marinatimes.com/apr11/pets_poisoning.html
A Wildlife Photographer Shares Twilight Adventure In Golden Gate Park, Golden Gate Park: Views From The Thicket (a Blog about SF Golden Gate Park) February 27, 2011
Urban Coyotes Have Lives, WildCare: Live Well With Wildlife, Feb 2011
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/wildcare-pdf-full-copy.pdf
Wildlife in Focus: Coyote, My Time at Stone Creek Golf Club
publication dateJan 20, 2011
http://turfhugger.blogspot.com/2011/01/wildlife-in-focus-coyote.html#more
Coyote Behavior and Peaceful Coexistence, Marina Times, December 2010
description: A brief introduction of coyote urban behaviors,
http://www.marinatimes.com/dec10/pets_petpages.html
[also published in two other publications:“Coyote Behavior and Peaceful Coexistence with Humans and Dogs”, Pacific Riptide, November 24, 2010, http://www.pacificariptide.com/pacifica_riptide/2010/11/coyote-behavior-and-peaceful-coexistence.html, SFGate, December 27, 2010, http://blog.sfgate.com/inthepeninsula/2010/12/27/coyote-behavior-and-peaceful-coexistence-with-humans-and-dogs/]
Celebrating Our Urban Wildness: Coyotes to Quail
description: An exhibit of 60 of my large-format photos of the wildlife found right here in San Francisco. This exhibit was supposed to run for four months, but ran for a full year longer.
at the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center at the San Francisco Library, Main Branch
January 2009 to July 2010
Myca of Twin Peaks, a one person photo exhibit, Seed Gallery for Photography at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio, March 20 to May 16, 2008, then extended to June 10. These photos then moved to the Randall Museum in San Francisco as part o their “Wild in the City” exhibit, and remained up 6 years until the Randall Museum closed for renovations in 2016.
Myca of Twin Peaks, self-published and sold 600 copies at cost, September 2007
description: A home made booklet with photos about an encounter with one of our San Francisco coyotes on Twin Peaks
excerpt: https://www.urbanwildness.com/urbanwildness.com/Tattle-Tails/Pages/My_Introduction_to_Myca.html
My Coyote on Twin Peaks, Noe Valley Voice, September 2007
http://noevalleyvoice.com/2007/September/Coy.html [with photo: http://noevalleyvoice.com/2007/September/index.shtml] NVV announced the Presidio exhibit: http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2008/April/Cal.html; NVV announces the publication of the booklet:
http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/2007/November/Rumo.html
Flyers and Signs for free downloading:
Coyote Facts and Fiction, for free distribution, published 2012,
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/facts-and-fiction1.pdf
The Truth About Coyote Conflicts, for free distribution, published 2012
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/conflict-flyer-10-15.pdf
La Verdad Acerca de lost conflictos con coyotes
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/conflictos.pdf
Coexistence with Dogs, published 2011
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/coyote-behavior-peaceful-coexistence.pdf
Como Espantar a un Coyote Para Que Se Vaya, 2012
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/como-espantar-a-un-coyote-para-que-se-vaya.pdf
Guidelines for Coexisting with Coyotes
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/guidelines-for-coexistence.pdf
Guía Para Coexistir con coyotes urbanos
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/guc3ada-en-espac3b1ol.pdf
Guidelines for Coexistence in Chinese
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/chinese-new-flyer-6b1.pdf
Coyote Advisory Signs:
English: https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/signs-english-update-avoidance-square-small.pdf
Spanish and Mandarin: https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/signs-spch-new-avoidance-mixis2.pdf
ARTICLES FEATURING JANET KESSLER (or her photos)
Urban coyote overlooking San Francisco: PHOTO for SF ACC’s Coyote page, added 1-21-2020.
“‘Tis the Season of Sharing - let’s share the earth with coyotes”, by Katherine Howard, in Castro Courier, December 2019, page 3 (will appear online in a couple of weeks, and also in the WestSideObserver).
The Need for Wildness: How Coyotes Are Finding a Place in a Changing City, by Tara Lohan, in The Revelator, July 12, 2019
The woman who follows urban coyotes, by Vivian Ho, The Guardian, February 26, 2019: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/26/san-francisco-coyote-lady-urban-wildlife-on-rise
Neighbors in the Night, by Vanitha Sankaran, Pacifica Magazine, November 2018.
https://issuu.com/wickcommunications/docs/p_nov2018-_web/26
San Francisco’s Urban Coyotes Have A Friend in Local “Coyote Lady”, by Katherine Seligman, Sacramento Bee, July 16, 2017: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article161489933.html
Video: San Francisco Coyote Plays Fetch With Herself, by Graph Masara, SFGate, February 21, 2017: http://www.sfgate.com/local/article/VIDEO-San-Francisco-coyote-plays-fetch-with-11236649.php
How To Coexist With Wild Coyotes, From SF’s Own “Coyote Whisperer”, by Alisa Scerrato
Hoodline, February 20, 2017
Description: Information to allay fears, and guidance for coexisting with urban coyotes here in San Francisco.
http://hoodline.com/2017/02/how-to-coexist-with-wild-coyotes-from-sf-s-own-coyote-whisperer
Bernal Hill’s coyote is in danger because people keep feeding it, by Katie Dowd, SFGate, November 30, 2016
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bernal-Hill-coyote-is-in-danger-people-feeding-10645109.php
ABC News, 12/1/2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-ZGxpeIUck and
https://coyoteyipps.com/2016/12/08/lets-applaud-abc7-news-and-elissa-harrington/
The Coyote Whisperer, by Shelby Carpenter, Pacific Standard Magazine, March 22, 2016
https://psmag.com/the-coyote-whisperer-e4b0d4a4197a#.9p8nvbbpb
Coyote Town: Leave SF Coyotes Alone, by Julia Carrie Wong, SF Weekly, Sept 9, 2015
Janet Kessler, The Urban Coyote Watcher, by Leath Tonino, High Country News, May 25, 2015
http://www.hcn.org/issues/47.9/janet-kessler-the-urban-coyote-watcher
Woman on a First Name Basis with SF Coyotes, by Joel Engardio, SF Examiner, June 8, 2014
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in Washington used my photos for their “coyotes” and “multimedia” sections of their brand new website in March, 2014:
http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Columbia/Wildlife_Habitat/Coyotes.html
http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Columbia/Multimedia/Coyotes.html
Urban Coyotes Mate For Life, BioNews Science Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, NYC, November, 2012 [a photo of Janet’s is included]; http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins/(watch)/bio/news/urban-coyotes-mate-for-life
Connecting with Janet Kessler, “Coyote Lady”, Interview by Courtney Quirin, Bay Nature Connections, November 4, 2012
http://www.icontact-archive.com/OwK19FaLp7YGukj_b9bEhImvK5RVFEXH?w=3#janet
Keeping Peace With Urban Coyotes, by Courtney Quirin, Bay Nature, November 7, 2012 [Janet Kessler’s photos]
https://baynature.org/article/keeping-the-peace-with-urban-coyotes/
Urban Coyotes in our Midst, by Courtney Quirin, Bay Nature, September 4, 2012 [Janet Kessler’s photos]
https://baynature.org/article/keeping-the-peace-with-urban-coyotes/
Taking Walks on the Wild Side, by Susan Sward, NYT, March 14, 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/us/14sfvista.html
“SF Residents Learn To Coexist With Urban Coyotes”, by Robin Hindery, AP (published in over 800 news outlets), March 11, 2011
with photo by Jeff Chiu.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13126469
“It’s A Good Time Of Year To Spot Urban Wildlife,” by Victoria Schlesinger in Way Out West News, June 6, 2011
https://yipps.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/it_s-a-good-time-of-year-to-spot-urban-wildlife-way-out-west-news.pdf [the old link, below, no longer functions :((]
http://www.wayoutwestnews.com/2011/06/06/its-a-good-time-of-year-to-spot-urban-wildlife/
Wildlife in San Francisco (published in WOW or Way Out West, which is no longer in operation). The founder and owner of this journal moved on to Bay Nature: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wayoutwestnews/sets/72157626891530454/
Panel at Palace of Fine Arts Lagoon, SF, with photos by Janet Kessler, the public opening was on January 14, 2011
https://www.urbanwildness.com/urbanwildness.com/Index/Pages/Panel_at_Palace_of_Fine_Arts.html
ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES
Conversation and Q&A at SF Botanical Gardens With Children’s Garden Interns, July 17, 2017
I served as an advisor to Coyote Watch Canada.
A founder and director of coyotecoexistence.com and blog
Helped set up presentations in Atlanta in 2013
Coyoteyipps Blog: research and behavior documentation of coyotes
Some of my photos on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyoteyipps/
Everyday in the parks educating folks by speaking with them, answering questions, putting up signs where needed, and documenting coyote behavior: Glen Canyon, Bernal Heights, Pine Lake at Stern Grove, McLaren, Lake Merced, Buena Vista Park, Corona Heights, Golden Gate Heights, and distributing *packets* of information to various neighborhoods: over 5,000 so far in 2018 alone.
Bernal Heights daily appearances to remove food and educate people on not feeding or befriending.
Publishing flyers which were packaged for free distribution on doorknobs in different neighborhoods in San Francisco or handed to people, beginning with 10,000.
A founder and director of SFForest.net (also served as secretary for 3 years)
Harpist at Noe Valley Plucked String Orchestra for 3 years (avocation)
Editorial Assistant at US News and World Report 1986-1989, SF Bureau
Office Manager at Vorpal Gallery 1977-1979.
University of Texas, Austin, BA and MA
Photo by Judith Romero ©2009