Cheeseboro Park Open; No Coyote Pack Found
The National Park Service reopened the Cheeseboro Canyon Park on Saturday morning after a five-day search failed to find a pack of coyotes believed responsible for a string of encounters with people there.
But rangers and volunteers will continue patrolling the park, composed of 2,100 acres in Agoura Hills, through Monday night, said Gregg Caffey, assistant district park ranger for the National Park Service.
The park’s opening marked the end of the first coyote-related closure in the eight-year history of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Caffey said.
The Park Service closed the park Tuesday after three coyotes were reported to have attacked three horseback riders and two hikers since Saturday, in behavior that animal experts said was more characteristic of wild dogs.
Residents who visited the park Saturday were undaunted by the temporary closing. Cheeseboro Road resident Peter Roth, 30, expressed pleasure in learning that his 12-year-old daughter, Amy, would be able to resume regular horseback rides in the canyon.
“That’s what we moved out here for,” he said. “We’d rather our kids were out here riding horses than hanging out at the malls.’
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