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Park Service Warns Visitors At Lake Mead To Steer Clear Of Coyotes

The National Park Service is warning visitors about how dangers of coyotes in the park.

The Las Vegas Review Journal reports park service spokeswoman Yolanda Sherwood says she’s never seen as many of the coyotes as she has in the last year.

Sherwood started looking into the coyote situation at the lake about a year ago when bicyclists complained to park rangers about coyotes chasing them on their rides.

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Since then, rangers have tracked a pack of seven coyotes that hang around the Boulder Basin area of Lake Mead.

It may not be that there are more coyotes at Lake Mead, Sherwood said. It is more likely that they’ve lost their fear of humans and become aggressive because people have feed them or they’ve found unsecured food in popular areas of the park.

Coyote sightings are on the rise in other areas of Southern Nevada. Sun City Summerlin residents report seeing them on the community’s golf course.

 

Natalie is an Emmy-award winning journalist who has worked in the Las Vegas market since August 1996, starting as a newscast producer for KLAS-TV Channel 8, and later as an online editor for 8newsnow.com.