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About Coyotes

The Coyote's Expanding Range

Coyotes are exceptionally adaptive. Historically, coyotes could be found in prairies and deserts from Mexico through the central United States and into Canada. Until the 1940s, coyotes in Oregon were considered somewhat rare west of the Cascades. Now, coyotes can be found from Mexico to Canada and across the United States.

View research on the historic range of coyotes here.
To read Native American stories about coyotes in this region, check out Coyote Was Going There: Indian Literature of the Oregon Country
Coyote Range Map by Zuriel van Belle
Special thanks to the Urban Coyote Research Project​

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