Brown, an ecologist at nearby Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, a patchwork of 155,000 acres of mountains, chaparral woodlands and beaches, was trying to keep a low profile. Using radio ...

Out of the cloaking fog, a coyote suddenly materializes and abruptly ... testing air for scent…then vanishes back into the thorny chaparral. That’s the way of coyotes; you hear them more ...