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Tracking map from West Seattle Blog of all reported coyote sightings since 2007: http://www.zeemaps.com/pub?group=320731

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Hell, even my old neighborhood when we lived in the NW apartments in Magnolia -- the most geographically isolated neighborhood in the city for wildlife besides Harbor Island -- had cougars, bears, and coyotes in the past couple years.

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2…
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2…
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These animals have been adapting and surviving for millions more years than we have. They will be here long after we've destroyed ourselves.
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This line of thinking and accompanying anecdotes are often used as an excuse or justification of sprawl and over-consumptive expansion. We need to protect wild places and support conservation, not to embrace the "anthropocene" as just another "new possibilit[y] to some form of life."
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I've got a wookie living in the back alley. Does that count?
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I spotted a coyote in the parking lot of my apartment complex on Kent East Hill earlier this year.

Here is a picture of it as seen from the windshield of my car:

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/BQ…

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@6,

I'm pretty sure that's actually your cars hood ornament.
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Yes, save the urban coyotes! They keep the stray cats in check.

What @3 said. I'm not very optimistic about the next few centuries for humanity (resource wars and population crash seem all too possible and nasty) but a million years from now, I think you'll see pretty much the same animal orders, and in most cases families, that we see today. Many species will come and go, regardless of humans.

We need to fight for the state of our great-grandchildren, not for "all life on earth." The hyperbole of killing the planet is ridiculous. We couldn't do it if we tried, although we could certainly make the place almost unrecognizable!
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I go down to Rainier Ave. if I want to see urban animals. Or 3rd & Pike.

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