Broomfield officials are not taking things lightly when it comes to responding to this summer’s string of coyote attacks in one of the city’s northern neighborhoods, something they demonstrated during a 20-minute presentation delivered this week to City Council.
City Open Space and Trails Director Kristan Pritz on Tuesday appeared before council to outline what city staff, in cooperation with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, have done thus far to address aggressive coyotes in Broomfield, and what they plan to do moving forward. In total, Pritz outlined 20 steps, either already enacted or in the planning stages, that officials are hoping will prevent further negative encounters between people and coyotes.
The city has had what experts have classified as an extremely uncommon string of coyote attacks on people this summer. Coyotes, usually skittish around humans, since July 18 have bitten three children, each between the ages of 2 and 6, in the Anthem Highlands neighborhood. In the most recent attack, on Sept. 19, a coyote came into the back yard of a home from an abutting open space area and bit a 3-year-old girl as her parents tried to scare the animal away from their back patio.
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