Our Coyote Neighbors: Getting to Know Portland’s Urban Canids
Our Coyote Neighbors: Getting to Know Portland’s Urban Canids with Liz Weinberg, Assistant Director, Portland Urban Coyote Project
Sept 1, 7-9pm | Door at 6pm | McMenamins Mission Theater
Maybe you’ve seen a coyote trotting down the street in the wee hours of the morning; perhaps you’ve heard the raucous chatter of a howling coyote pack late into the night. Coyotes live throughout the Portland area, using our parks, backyards, and empty lots as their adopted homes. For 15 years, the Portland Urban Coyote Project has been studying these coyotes and how we humans interact with our canid neighbors.
In this talk, join Portland Urban Coyote Project Assistant Director Liz Weinberg to learn about how coyotes and humans share our city. They’ll help you get to know our resident coyotes, share what we know about Portland’s coyotes, and explain what you can do to ensure we all live well together.
Science Pubs are a casual lecture series located in fun venues across the region, recommended for ages 10 and over.
Tickets: $8 suggested donation | Advance tickets recommended
Zoom Option
If you are unable to join us in person, you can watch on Zoom. You must register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Photo credit: Mark Wycoff, via Portland Urban Coyote Project
About the Speaker
Liz is a science communicator and nature nerd. Now collaborating with the Portland Urban Coyote Project, they have previously worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to share stories about our national system of marine protected areas and support ocean conservation; worked with the White House and National Science Foundation to improve collaboration among researchers, policymakers, and community members in the Arctic; and taught science communication everywhere from the Juneau Icefield to the California coast. They are the author of Unsettling: Surviving Extinction Together, an essay collection that uses queerness to reconfigure our relationships with land and climate. They hold an MFA in creative writing from the University of Washington and will be starting graduate school at PSU this fall to further study human/coyote conflict. Liz lives in Portland with their partner and their two coyote-sized dogs.
