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Spring blooms

At North Haven Gardens’ annual Rose Weekend, the experienced staff ensures you pick out the perfect roses

From a lush, striking peachorange ‘Rosie the Riveter’ to a classic red ‘Legends’ hybrid tea rose, North Haven Gardens’ Rose Weekend features a bloom for everyone. With more than 100 varieties, you’ll find a wide selection of roses in all shapes and colors.

A tradition for over 68 years, NHG’s Rose Weekend has been instrumental in keeping Dallas rose gardens vibrant.

Originally, this popular weekend event was held in October. In those days, original rosarian Ira Duncan and founder Ralph Pinkus trekked to the Tyler rose fields, selecting the rose varieties that would be displayed instore for customers to browse. Bareroot canes were brought in after orders were placed. North Haven Gardens grew the shrubs over the winter in recycled food cans, and customers returned in March to pick up their shrubs.

By the mid-1970s, commercial rose growing in the U.S. was largely centered in California, but today, North Haven Gardens continues the tradition of bringing in several thousand bare root roses each winter to grow out for the next spring. Bare rootstock comes from several reputable wholesale rose growers from around the country, says

general manager Cody Hoya. Rose bushes typically start trickling into the nursery just as the holiday season is in full swing.

Now the last full weekend of March, North Haven Gardens sells an average of 1,000 roses during Rose Weekend — almost one-third of NHG’s yearly rose sales. It’s one of a handful of Texas nurseries that features fan-favorite David Austin English Roses.

The best way to select the perfect rose for your garden?

“Visit North Haven Gardens during Rose Weekend. Our garden advisors are ready and waiting to help select the best rose for you and your garden,” Hoya says.

Rose Weekend: March 25-26, 2023, 9am-6pm (opening 8am on Saturday)

ON THE COVER Beauty inside and out

At North Haven Gardens, enthusiasts can find a large variety of roses, attend classes such as Chic Home Plant Care, How Not to Kill Your Indoor Houseplant and “Swap and Sips” – opportunities for interested parties to trade cuttings and seeds with others.

Front cover : Desdemona Roses (white) are known for an Old Rose fragrance with hints of almond blossom, cucumber and lemon zest. Image courtesy of David Austin Roses.

Left page: A ‘Benjamin Britten,’ bred by Davis Austin Roses, is a shrub known for its highly saturated color. Image courtesy of David Austin Roses.

Right Page: Rosarian Ira Duncan with the canned roses in front in 1959. An ad for Rose Weekend from 1967. Images courtesy of North Haven Gardens.

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A HEAD FOR (SHOW) BUSINESS

Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon writer Alex Yonks launched a career from Parish Episcopal School

Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by KATHY TRAN

If you caught a sweet flick called Candy Coated Christmas on Discovery+ over the holidays, you witnessed the work of neighborhood native Alex Yonks. A budding screenwriter and filmmaker, Yonks is the greenest of the rom-com’s three co-writers.

At 14 years old, the 2012 Parish Episcopal graduate impressed her elders at an acting audition when she read original material rather than choosing a provided scene. That was the start of a promising show-business career that, thus far, includes a college TV Emmy for Children’s Programming for the short, A Taylor Story , which she wrote and directed, credits on the Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon , and a gig at sugary-romantic-film epicenter Hallmark Channel.

Though she is on a tight writing deadline, splitting her time between Dallas and Hollywood, Yonks took a moment to chat with the Advocate about Easter eggs in a Christmas movie, loved ones who support her, philosophies that drive her and visions for the future.

WHAT DREW YOU TO SHOWBIZ? WHAT’S THE ALEX YONKS ORIGIN STORY?

Growing up I played competitive soccer. It was my first love, and I wholeheartedly believe I am the person I am today because of the lessons I learned off and on the field. But even as a child I was drawn to family friendly TV shows. When I was about 14, I convinced my parents to let me take acting classes at Cathryn Sullivan Acting for Film. Cathy was one of my first mentors. It was there that I learned acting and developed my passion for writing and directing. We were preparing for a weekend workshop, and I couldn’t find sides (scripts that actors read for auditions) that I wanted to use, so I went home and wrote my own. After performing my scene, the visiting agent asked me what film the scene was from, and when I said that I wrote it, they said they couldn’t believe it and gave me such adulation that I went home and turned that scene into my first feature-length screenplay.

HOW DID YOUR SCHOOLING NURTURE THAT INTEREST?

In 10th grade, I moved to Parish Episcopal School the same year that Kevin Ash took over the film department. He took me under his wing as he was developing the program and allowed me to complete my screenplay as part of an independent study. Kevin has always been supportive and even helped me with funding for my college-thesis film, A Taylor Story , which won a college Emmy Award. I also wrote and directed my first short, Power of Wind , while in high school. It was entered into a contest through the Dallas Film Society and was one of 15 high school films shown at the Angelika Film Center, chosen from 65 entries. That was my first film to screen in a theater. I was very proud of that film, but when I look back, I think, thanks to mentors like Kevin and my time at Chapman University in the directing program, my scripts have, thankfully, improved.

HOW DOES IT FEEL WATCHING A COMPLET-

ED SHOW OR MOVIE THAT YOU CREATED OR HELPED TO CREATE?

It’s very exciting and rewarding. So much work, time and energy goes into creating a film, and it feels great to see it all come to life. It’s also fun to share the experience with family and friends. When Candy Coated Christmas first started streaming, we had a small private watching party with family and close friends. Everyone made me stop the film to give them behind the scenes highlights and explain hidden secrets like the “Yonks’ Tree Farm.” It was in the movie but wasn’t actually named that in the script — the director and producer surprised me with that one.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SHOWS AND MOVIES?

Friends , Parenthood and Gilmore Girls are my alltime favorite TV shows, and of course Big Bang Theory . My family and I used to watch Big Bang when I was growing up and on my first day of col -

lege, I put on my vision board that I wanted to work there. I totally believe in setting goals and visualizing where you want to go and what you want to achieve. I guess it worked. Some of my favorite shows now are That ’90s Show , Abbott Elementary and Wednesday

WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW? A Hallmark movie.

WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST BIG BREAK?

I think that I’ve had multiple breaks over the course of my career and life, at various stages. I believe that when you work hard, good things happen. I knew after school that I wanted to work not just in TV, not even just in comedy, but on Big Bang . I think that was one of my first big breaks.

DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN MENTORING OTHER YOUNG ACTORS OR ASPIRING WRITERS?

When I was in college, I had seven internships, and many of the people I worked with gave me great advice and helped me along my path. I advise anyone starting out to take the opportunities presented to them. I know I will continue to appreciate mentors as I grow my career and, yes, I would love to pay it forward.

WHAT ARE THE PREDOMINANT BELIEFS THAT DRIVE YOU TO WORK SO HARD?

My philosophy is really just to put yourself out there and do the best work you can do. I love creating characters and discovering their stories as the script unfolds. But writing can be solitary, so it has been really important for me to have close friends in my corner for encouragement and to sometimes put the story down and get away from it. I also feel lucky to have grown up in a family that has my back. I know my sister and my parents are always there for me and vice versa. As far as my goals, I hope to be writing and directing for many years to come.

Interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

THE BURGER KING

KEVIN GALVAN BRINGS A FAMILY LEGACY OF RESTAURATEURS TO HAYSTACK BURGERS & BARLEY

KEVIN GALVAN’S GREATGRANDFATHER IMMIGRATED FROM MEXICO AND OPENED A RESTAURANT IN WEST

TEXAS. Then his grandfather and dad owned successful restaurants in the Dallas area. A fourth generation restaurateur, Kevin grew up refilling chips in his father’s restaurant and learning about TexMex restaurateurship from his parents and grandparents.

“It’s what I’ve always wanted to do,” Kevin says. “Out of college, I started working for my dad and realized I really enjoyed this. So my dad fired me.”

After picking up experience working at Houston’s Restaurant, Kevin owned and operated his first restaurant, Ricardo’s Tex Mex, with his wife Jenny from 2004 to 2009. In 2013, the Galvans took their Tex-Mex experience and gave it a twist, opening

Haystack Burgers & Barley. They opened their first location in Richardson, where they’ve lived for over 20 years. Now, there are five locations: Richardson Heights, Lakewood, Hillcrest Village, Frisco and Preston Hollow.

“Kevin grew up in that area. It’s always been our favorite area of Dallas, so we always wanted to have a location there,” says Jenny Galvan, co-owner of Haystack Burgers & Barley. “We also know it has such a great neighborhood presence. Lots of different schools but a great neighborhood feel and we know that Haystack does best in the neighborhoods. We do the best job when we can be a part of it.”

Kevin went to St. Monica’s Catholic School before moving on to high school at Dallas Lutheran School in Lake Highlands, where he met Jenny.

Each Haystack location is de

signed with its neighborhood in mind, with slight differences in menu offerings and decor at each one.

“It (the Preston Hollow location) is just a little more upscale than our Richardson one,” Jenny says. “This one has a little bit of a different feel, so you can just go grab a quick bite after a soccer game or you could have a nice date night. We wanted it to kind of encompass everything in the neighborhood.”

Haystack’s menu pulls from the Galvans’ Tex-Mex background while keeping all the classics of a burger bar. The signature burger, the Haystack Burger, includes Haystack onions, cheddar cheese, apple wood smoked bacon, barbecue sauce, lettuce, tomato and pickles.

“We do burgers because everybody likes them and you can eat it more than once a week,” Jenny says. “Everything is fresh. All of

Story by ALYSSA HIGH | Photography by KATHY TRAN

A Haystack Salad, Haystack Burger and fresh cut Kennebek fries.

our dressings we make in house. Our mozzarella sticks are life changing. We slice them and bread them all in house.”

Haystack’s menu also features a chicken fried burger, Pitch Fork Chili, salads, sandwiches, chips and salsa, and ranchero chicken stuffed jalapeños, a nod to the Galvan family’s TexMex recipes.

For the barley part, there are a dozen rotating local beers on tap and, exclusive to the Preston Hollow location, two red wines and two whites on tap. For those looking for something frozen, Haystack’s signature cocktail, the Big Haymaker, is a frozen drink with Maker’s Mark, orange juice, lemonade and tea.

“We want it to be an extension of us, an extension of our home,” Jenny says. “We were 16 years old dreaming of opening restaurants together. It’s really neat; we’re 50 now so to see it into fruition and have this little part to play in people’s celebrations and conversations.”

Haystack Burgers , 11700 Preston Road, 214. 272.9001, haystackburgers.com

A Haystack Salad and Lindsey’s Hay Club. The club features ham, turkey, cheddar cheese, pepper jack cheese, applewood smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayo.

MEET CATCH UP & READ’S NEW PRESIDENT & CEO

THIRD GRADE IS A PIVOTAL PART OF A CHILD’S EDUCATION.

It’s when they start STAAR testing and are expected to be able to read to learn, rather than learn to read.

Local nonprofit Catch Up & Read aims to ensure that all Dallas ISD students are reading on-level by the third grade through after school tutoring by teachers who are trained and paid by the nonprofit.

Children at neighborhood schools like Nathan Adams and Stephen C. Foster Elementary, among many others across the district, benefit from Catch Up & Read’s program, which has found that their students are more likely to meet their growth projections and pass STAAR compared to campus peers.

New president and CEO Carol Goglia comes from previous role at United to Learn, where she served as the as the president and strategic impact advisor. While Catch Up & Read focuses on an individual student’s reading ability, United to Learn partners with community organizations to improve elementary schools in the district.

“Given the reading crisis we’re facing as a nation, there is nothing more important than investing in our children and their teachers,” Goglia says.

WHAT GOT YOU INTERESTED IN EDUCATIONAL NONPROFITS?

I’ve always been passionate about education. My mom was a teacher and my mother-in-law was a reading specialist and then a principal. School is one of my happy places in life. When I was moving from the corporate sector to nonprofit education that was really what was most interesting to me. I first started at Communities Foundation of Texas, which has Educate Texas as a part of it. I was excited to be a part of growing a community-wide giving movement there with North Texas Giving Day. As far as my specific area of interest, education has been that for me.

HOW DID WORKING IN THE CORPORATE SECTOR HELP YOU TRANSITION INTO THE NONPROFIT WORLD?

My immediate job right before was working for FritoLay

Story by ALYSSA HIGH Photography of SYLVIA ELZAFON

Neighbor Carol Goglia brings years of experience in education nonprofits

and PepsiCo in marketing. Learning all about consumer insights and thinking about what really motivates people, whether that be what they’re choosing as their favorite snack or choosing how to spend their time and money, goes to those same basic needs. My background in business was not only the business management side of it, but also the consumer insights and the psychology of why people buy, and translating that into the nonprofit sector, why people give.

WHAT EXACTLY IS CATCH UP & READ?

We really have two sides of what we do. One is equipping the teachers with data-driven science and reading instruction. The other is taking that to the students. Working with the low-income students in our schools, we tutor in both English and Spanish. That bilingual advantage really meets children where they are, and every lesson begins with social-emotional preparation to make sure that the students are ready to learn. Then we do all sorts of other fun things to keep students engaged, whether that be tokens or other incentives for getting them to focus on the key skill that they’re learning and move through their foundational skills to become proficient readers.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS FOR THE NONPROFIT?

First getting to know our schools and really getting to see our program in action is really important so that I can see the magic and those lightbulb moments with both the students and the teachers. Then getting to put together a strategy about how we can grow our impact, whether that be from enhancing what we do with our current schools or confine our methods so that we can go to more schools.

WHAT IS SOMETHING ABOUT YOU THAT READERS WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN?

I’m a big summer camp proponent, and I’m a big fan of the arts as well as creative expression. My daughter (a Hockaday grad) is getting her BFA in theater. We have a dog, a Goldendoodle, named Winnie. I’m also a breast cancer survivor. I spend my weekends at youth sports whether that be a regatta for my son who rows, or my eighth grader who plays a lot of soccer and lacrosse.

Interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

GOING GLOBAL

TRANSPORTATION, PARK AND CONSTRUCTION UPDATES AT THE DALLAS INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT

Story by RENEE UMSTED | Photography by EMIL LIPPE

A20-acre park surrounded by apartments, offices and stores. Events that bring together diverse populations. Autonomous transportation that moves people safely and efficiently.

These are a few of the visions for the 450-acre Dallas International District. But those are still years away.

Where others see empty parking lots, traces of demolition and the site of the Valley View Mall, stakeholders in this North Dallas development see

potential, and lots of it.

Leading the project are Jaynie Schultz, the City Council member for District 11, and Suzanne Smith, the founder of consulting group Social Impact Architects, which has been helping shape plans and strategies.

BUY! BUY! BUY!

For over a year, Schultz has been holding office hours at the Prism Center. In late 2022, the building welcomed its first international trade office, the Trade Office of France. Talks with other groups about moving their offices to the center are ongoing.

“It’s a first step in the direction of us continuing to get closer ties to those individual countries as well as those businesses that are popular in their countries and bringing them to the United States,” Smith says.

The Prism Center could also house offices for nonprofits and city departments, she adds.

Another property acquisition will allow Dallas ISD to open a school with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics. The school district plans to enroll around 900 students in pre-K through 12th grade. Its Construction Services department is still early in the programming and design process for the high-rise building at 5501 Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, and as of publication, no other details were available. However, Smith says the Dallas International District is working with architects to determine if the property could have any other uses for the city.

GREEN SPACE

For the first time, Dallas applied for an Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership grant, which is administered through the National Park Service. This program, targeted toward projects that will provide outdoor recreational activities, helps with the development of facilities and the acquisition of property for parks.

Texas Parks and Wildlife will review applications and make a recommendation to its national counterpart.

Schultz says Dallas will know by the fall whether the grant will be approved, but as of publication, the application has received more than a dozen letters of support from individuals and

groups including Rep. Colin Allred, the Dallas Regional Chamber and the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce.

If Dallas receives a grant, the city will acquire a 4-acre parcel that is currently a parking lot. Transforming a paved surface into a green space is exactly what the federal government wants to do, Schultz says.

Klyde Warren Park is about 3 acres. The park in the Dallas International District, envisioned to be similar to Chicago’s Millennium Park or New York’s Central Park, will be more than six times larger. It’s meant to serve the people who will live and work in the

district and any visitors.

“As we’re positioning this whole area as the new regional downtown, that’s the key piece,” Schultz says.

Plus, it will help rectify the green space desert in North Dallas. Trust for Public Land has identified the future Dallas International District, the GalleriaValley View area, as a very high priority area for new parks. Priority is assigned to areas outside of the 10-minute walk to a park, with the level of priority determined by population density, density of low-income households and people of color, community health, urban heat islands and pollution burden.

The urban park is important for transportation plans coming from the North Central Texas Council of Governments, Smith says. The council has designated the Dallas International District as a transportation innovation zone. That, along with Dallas’ goals to become a smart city, means the district is the guinea pig for the latest transportation technology.

The plan is to have an automated transportation system shuttling people around the interior of the district, smart traffic signals and a connection to DART’s Silver Line all working together for safe, efficient movement.

Schultz says the district is collaborating with the city and Dallas County to improve Alpha Road and Preston Road. This year, construction will be ongoing to turn Montfort Drive into a complete street, a designation that refers to a roadway with wide sidewalks, plenty of landscaping and infrastructure to allow for a public transportation system. There’s an emphasis on slowing down vehicular traffic and increasing safety for pedestrians.

That’s the goal for the district overall, to keep cars on the borders and use automated transportation to move people within and to bus stops and parking areas.

TEAR DOWN THIS WALL

When demolition is involved, stories usually report Dallasites pleading for structures to be left alone. Not this time.

Headlines in November and December told of frustrated stakeholders waiting for the remnants of Valley View Mall to be torn down.

A recent squabble between the city and property owner Beck Ventures over the delayed demolition has been resolved, Schultz says. Crews are working on abating the asbetos, which should be completed by the end of March. The city is giving Beck Ventures until June 1 to complete demolition, though there could be a deadline extension to July 28 if there’s a provable reason to do so.

Beck will decide what is built in its place.

As for the rest of the district, neighbors should count on apartments being built or coming through the pipeline this year, Schultz says.

“You’ve got 400-plus disparate owners who’ve been doing their own thing for 40 years,” Schultz says. “Now, for the first time, we’re bringing them together, so they’re figuring out what that means and what that looks like.”

Maps and renderings of the future Dallas International District, which will be a live-work-play district.

Visions for the Dallas International District won’t be fully realized for years, but community activities are already happening there.

For example, Galleria Dallas, which was acquired by MetLife Insurance last year, is partnering with Texas’ European American Chamber of Commerce to hold “Experience Europe” in May.

And the Prism Center has hosted world night markets, showcasing food, music and art from different cultures. Schultz says they plan to have another night market this spring. In the fall, shortly before the State Fair of Texas, they want to have an international festival.

“What I’m hoping will happen with this festival is that it’ll become a taste of what it would be like to live there,” Schultz says.

Suzanne Smith, Jaynie Schultz and Dev Rastogi, vice president and Dallas executive at AECOM, at AECOM’s office at Galleria Tower 1 on Noel Road.

thanks for the memories

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTISAN KATIE FUERST’S PAINTING PARTIES BRING A CREATIVE TWIST TO CERAMICS

Story by ALYSSA HIGH | Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT

perhaps Katie Fuerst was born an artisan.

Her parents are both artisans themselves, and she was always surrounded by the art world in some way or another. The Preston Hollow Elementary alumna attended high schools all over Dallas, but her first art teacher at PHES was who sparked her interest in art. She attended college at Texas Tech University before realizing that art was her passion and transferred to the University of North Texas to get her BFA in Art History.

After college, Fuerst returned to the neighborhood and worked for a paintyour-own-pottery studio in Preston Center, where she learned the tricks of the trade. One day, a customer came in requesting to do a party at her own house, and the manager informed her that they didn’t travel to people’s homes for the parties. Fuerst followed the woman to her car and asked when she needed the party ready, and within two weeks, Fuerst had her own ceramics painting party. She promptly quit

and got to work on her own.

“I walked in and gave my two weeks’ notice and bought a kiln. She was my first client, but it just kind of mushroomed from there,” Fuerst says. “I would take breaks every once in a while because I had young kids, but even if I went to someone’s house for a playdate, I always brought ceramics.”

Fuerst continued her business for nearly 30 years, painting countless ornaments, plates, cups and anything else Fuerst could make out of clay.

“A lot of my friends have their kid’s footprints on plates around their house and stuff,” Fuerst says. “There’s always just something that I love about immortalizing something on clay that is going to be special for years to come.”

You don’t have to be an artist to enjoy the classes, Fuerst says. In fact, many of her clients come into the parties with the notion that they’re going to paint their ceramics in all one color because they don’t have the confidence to paint something more.

“I walk them through and say ‘No, I want

you to dream up what you want this to look like, and I will help you get there,’” she says. “I have story after story of having so much fun painting where they get it back and go, ‘No way; there’s no way I painted this.’ And I just love that because I know the medium so well that I can break it down and tell you exactly how to get there.”

For Fuerst, painting parties and ceramics are about more than just the piece; it’s about entertaining.

“I love how the take-home kits, even if I am not there, it’s a party,” Fuerst says. “They’ve invited friends over and they’ve set the table nicely, and when I drop it back off to them, it’s just something unique that they’ve created.”

Fuerst previously sold ceramics

in JoJo Mommy and Highland Park Scots Shop. Now, Fuerst mostly sells off of her website, where she is able to sell takehome kits, schedule paint parties and sell her own ceramic creations.

She is working on a spring line called Spring Has Sprung with items like small food-safe vessels and a bedside collection of cups. She aims to have a new line every season, with ornaments returning in the fall.

In addition to ceramics, Fuerst painted a mural in Oak Cliff in 2021 entitled “Dallas Postcard” and is open to doing more, wherever creative direction takes her. She currently does paint parties in Preston Hollow, Lake Highlands and other neighborhoods in central Dallas.

Katie Fuerst instructs party-goers at a paint party hosted at her house.

I just love that because I know the medium so well that I can break it down and tell you exactly how to get there.

COYOTE

Jackie Sutherland and her dog, Missy, patrol Dallas’ wooded areas for coyotes that neighbors have reported. She says the pup draws attention so she can do “high-intensity hazing, and teach coyotes that there are negative consequences if they try to approach a dog.”

COYOTECZAR

FOLLOWING AN UNNERVING ATTACK ON A CHILD LAST SPRING, THE CITY CALLED IN WILDLIFE EXPERT JACKIE

SUTHERLAND

Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by JULIA CARTWRIGHT

IT HAS BEEN ALMOST A YEAR since a coyote attack on a small child had Dallas residents on edge.

Following an incident in which a coyote grabbed a boy by the throat and held on until his siblings screamed and mom charged the animal, Dallas partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to create a comprehensive program to educate people and observe the animals. The goal: Broker peace between human and beast. The city web page bedallas90.org/coyotes includes a reporting system and a map that tracks sightings.

The attack also prompted our city government to appoint a coyote czar, of sorts, whose primary role is investigating, advising and helping to coordinate wildlife policy specifically related to the increasingly problematic canines.

That’s Animal Services officer Jacqueline Sutherland. She says she was called to the scene of the attack immediately and led the investigation.

As the little boy underwent surgery and recovered from his injuries, Sutherland’s team, with help from USDA hunters, captured and euthanized four neighborhood coyotes.

Lethal removal is only for extreme cases. Extracting or exterminating coyotes typically does little good, Sutherland explains, because the species will breed precisely to replace each family member lost to death or relocation.

Sutherland has been Dallas’ coyote point person since that investigation.

Urban coyotes have been a hot topic. But until the toddler’s attack, residents had been led to believe that while cats, squirrels and small dogs are at risk, coyotes are not likely to harm humans.

It remains true that assaults on people are atypical. But when a neighborhood child is the victim, it doesn’t matter how

rare they are, parents pointed out during public meetings. The city did not do enough to prevent an attack that was imminent, they said.

Anecdotal evidence suggests an increase in Dallas’ coyote population, Sutherland says.

“In some neighborhoods, I’ve spoken with people who lived there 30 years without seeing a coyote but now (are) seeing an entire family of them,” she says.

For an even more scientific assessment, the coyote management team is analyzing data they began collecting.

“Now that we’re monitoring families, territories, activities, behaviors, that kind of stuff is going to give us some insight in regard to their growth and how they function and how they distribute themselves.”

What she knows for sure is that coyotes are quite content to live among people, especially when they connect a human with a food source.

This habituation can result from unintentional or deliberate feeding, which does happen, Sutherland says, though people don’t want to admit to it.

“I was working with an apartment where we found kids throwing food over the fence to get a coyote to come out of the woods so they could get it in a TikTok video,” she says.

Coyotes serve a vital role in the ecosystem by helping to control the population of rodents. That means they go where the rodents go — unsecured trash bins, for example.

Even feeding ducks and other birds can inadvertently attract coyotes, she says. An ordinance banning wildlife feeding will go to a City Council vote sometime this year, and Sutherland says it’s necessary.

Sutherland says that if everyone did their part to tackle the coyote-feeding problem, the risk of further injuries to humans would be almost nil.

“We’re really struggling to educate people about the dangers of feeding, and we’re still trying to get that (ordinance) passed,” Sutherland says. “I’ve got areas where I’m basically having to beg people to stop leaving food out in an inappropriate fashion.”

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