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Comments: Mr. Steven Koblik, President The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, CA 91108 ph: 626-405-2100 email: skoblik@huntington.org, publicinformation@huntington.org Dear Mr. Koblik, I am dismayed to learn the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has one solution for coyotes on its property: Kill them. I respectfully ask you implement enduring and nonviolent means to coexist with wildlife. Visitor education and humane deterrents would certainly enhance your image more than neck snares and death. Wiping out indigenous wildlife commonly triggers more problems than it resolves. Coyotes are integral to Los Angeles basin ecosystems. Killing them offsets natural cycles. For example, coyotes and foxes prey on rodents; when coyote numbers drop, rodent and smaller carnivore populations rise. Ultimately, coyotes offset the decline by reproducing more quickly and boosting their numbers to pre-slaughter levels or higher. Moreover, snaring is ruthless. The steel-cable loop designed to strangle an animal within minutes usually fails. Necropsies of snared coyotes reveal that 63% suffer hemorrhaging (evidenced by grossly swollen heads), bloodied eyes, and broken teeth from trying to gnaw through the snare. Some animals break their own limbs to escape the pain. A trap-and-kill approach to coyote conflicts is never ecologically or ethically defensible. Please stop Huntington's "coyote abatement program." I encourage you to partner with wildlife organizations that can help devise site-specific solutions for humane coexistence instead of extermination. Thank you, <YOUR FIRST & LAST NAME> <YOUR ADDRESS> <YOUR COUNTRY> cc: Stewart R. Smith, Chair Peter K. Barker Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Anne F. Rothenberg Geneva H. Thornton