In a second round of coyote trapping in Rossmoor, four coyotes were bagged behind Martha Ann. The trapper used the coyote mapping provided by the Rossmoor Predator Management Team to place the traps. The trapping was funded by community contributions.
As more pets are attacked, and the coyotes are becoming more aggressive toward humans (see related stories below), the public demand for trapping has increased. One of the more startling incidents was when a coyote began aggressively stalking an adult in Rossmoor around 11:00 AM. That’s not considered normal behavior for the predators and could be a sign the animals are getting too comfortable.
“We all realized that well could have been a school child walking to or from school,” Rebecca Lara of the Rossmoor Predator Management Team told OC180NEWS. “Residents are becoming upset that we aren’t doing something beyond compiling statistics.”
This was the second attempt to trap coyotes in Rossmoor in the last few months. The first attempt did not catch any of the critters because there was only one trap used and it was not out long enough.
The second round of trapping began March 16 and yielded four coyotes in about four days.
“Instead of cages, they used snares, which are metal leashes,” Rebecca Lara told OC180NEWS. “They caught three males and one female and one of the males was an extremely large coyote.”
The four coyotes were caught behind Martha Ann and adjacent to the 605 Freeway. This is the right of way which Caltrans is supposed to clear for the freeway construction work, but, the clearing is still unfinished. This Caltrans property is also the very same place where Caltrans and their top notch wildlife biologists said they could not find any evidence of coyote inhabitation.
“It’s a total jungle back there,” said David Lara, also a member of the Rossmoor Predator Management Team. “That’s why the coyotes live back there. It’s amazing; it’s so dense back there.”
According to David Lara, the trapper pointed out where the coyotes have made paths through the overgrown vegetation. Eliminating the jungle would probably reduce the Rossmoor coyote problem.
“I just wish they would speed up,” said Lara. “They are doing a nice job of cleaning the brush up, I just want them to finish and they’re not. I don’t know what the hold up is.”
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Dolores Barr has lived in Rossmoor since 1992 and has created this site to provide local news for the people of Los Alamitos, Seal Beach, Rossmoor, Leisure World, Sunset Beach, and Surfside, California. My husband and I have had two students graduate from the Los Alamitos Unified School District and currently our Grandson, Ricky Apodaca, grade 3 at Weaver Elementary, is actively involved in youth baseball through LAYB and youth football through FNL.
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