Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials this week announced that officers killed seven coyotes in Broomfield’s Anthem neighborhood in the past two weeks in response to a string of coyote attacks on children in the area.
All told, wildlife officials have killed nine coyotes in the Anthem area since July, Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said.
Wednesday, Churchill announced that after several weeks of trapping and shooting coyotes in Anthem, division staff will stop patrolling the area unless run-ins persist between area residents and aggressive coyotes.
The recent efforts to thin the coyote population in Anthem began after a coyote bit a 6-year-old boy on Aug. 16, while he was walking with his father and younger sister on a trail near Colo. 7 between Lowell Boulevard and Sheridan Parkway, Churchill said. The boy suffered only minor scrapes and a pair of puncture wounds on his buttocks, according to police, but the attack was the third reported instance of coyote aggression toward a child in Anthem since mid-July.
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